The Sangha Kommune (僧伽公社) – A Place of Spiritual and Physical Growth! (Founded 16.2.2010)

The Chinese Buddhist monastic community is referred to as a ‘Sangha’ (Sanskrit for ‘spiritual community’), whereby men and women form a voluntary association premised upon following a strict set of rules known as the ‘Vinaya Discipline’. Within this community, there is ‘equality’ between all members, with the leaders being those who have followed these rules for the longest times. This is because such people are thought to have more experience at adhering to the Vinaya Discipline (which includes celibacy and vegetarianism), and are therefore able to effectively advise all others through the difficult times they my face in their practice. As those with little experience have less to share, they are not considered leaders whilst more experienced practitioners live in the vicinity.

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China: Cultural Relic Protection Unit – 1950s “Mao Zedong Calligraphy”! (3.9.2026)

There is something aesthetically pleasing about this calligraphy. Although “Revolutionary” in nature (and dialectically cutting through material reality) there is something timeless and deeply traditional. With a consummate ease – Mao Zedong issues edicts from Beijing which are relayed to Korea and turned into material actions on the ground. The “thought” and the “action” are like “mirror” and “reflection”. This is how the Chinese people regained their greatness after a hundred years of imperial subjugation at the hands of the West. Mao once wrote, “There will always be monsters that fire poisonous arrows – and there will always be people who dare to stand-up and catch them!” The anti-Socialist US re-deployed its army that had defeated the Imperial Japanese and Nazi Germans (behind the British and Soviets) – but it failed miserably in the face of a united China whose troops were motivated by Marxist-Leninism!

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American communists Claudia Jones and Harry Winston in Yalta with a group of vacationers, 1962. Photo. Photographer Evgeny Khaldei.

US: Claudia Jones Deported to the UK [in 1955] for Being a “Communist”! (3.9.2026)

This is typical of the bourgeois academic community – and perhaps to be expected of someone who has infiltrated and made his own way (successfully) in the White world (there are realities of “race” and “racism” that require navigating to avoid exclusion and ostracization). Indeed, even on the far-left, people like Claudia Jones are omitted from the general history and this stems from as yet un recognised and untreated disease of racism that exists on the left. The left lives in a world where it feels it occupies the moral high-ground because the USSR conquered racism. This “conquering” did not spread outside the USSR and the left in the West has no right to associate itself with it. Furthermore, from 1956 onwards, the USSR pursued a subtle but distinct “White” (Russian nationalistic) approach to the spread of Communism – as non-White China was demonised for daring to support Stalin against the lies perpetuated by Khrushchev. Although Claudia Jones did receive medical care in the USSR – and met Mao Zedong in 1964 (twice) – as part of an anti-racist and anti-colonial delegation (despite my extensive personal [family] and professional contacts with Chinese academia on the Mainland – I have not been able to locate any photographs of these meetings).

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In the course recently concluded in Cuba, 735 young people from 62 countries graduated. Photo: Dunia Álvarez Palacios

Cuba: An International School for Health & Hope! (3.9.2026)

At the end of this academic year, Cuban universities delivered 30,185 new professionals to the country and the world. Engineers, architects, pedagogues, scientists, nurses, technologists… Young people who have sweated in the classrooms, who have studied with just the right resources, who have overcome fatigue and adversity to become what this country needs to move forward.

Among those 30,185 there are 735 young people from 62 countries. Students who came from all continents – Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe – who shared desks with Cubans, who learned our language, our medicine, our solidarity, our way of understanding life as service. Who return to their lands with a degree and, also, with a way of seeing the world that is not taught in any manual.

And among them, two figures should make the blindest pause: 23 new Palestinian doctors.

Young people who will return to their land – a land that burns under bombs and rubble – not with weapons in their hands, but with stethoscopes around their necks. With the knowledge to save lives in the place in the world where it is most needed. With the ethics that Cuban medicine instills: first the human being, then everything else.

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Zia Yusuf has recently launched several attacks on blue-chip firms

UK: “Vodafone” & “Deliveroo” Back Reform UK as Yusuf Threatens Prison! (3.9.2026)

Taking a page out of Trump II’s play-book – acting like an absolute monarch is the way ahead. Democracy is short-circuited by the deployment of “rage” and “revenge” as an expression of an empowered “will” in high office. Procedures, checks and balances mean “nothing” – when an individual is politically empowered to arbitrarily express their will so that power is immediately deployed (oppressively) downward and is felt from above. Apparently, Vodafone and Deliveroo are “running scared” due to the threat of their bosses being arrested, charged, and imprisoned for daring to offer cheap or free help (including jobs) to vulnerable members of society (which may – or may not – involve migrants [illegal or otherwise]). What this is really about is the management of bourgeois narratives. The chain of evidence is US, EU, and UK. The US demands that the UK’s economy becomes a mirror of the US – with no unions, no meaningful jobs, no jobs for life, no proper wages, and no Welfare State, no housing, or medical care for the workers. This requires the continuous importing of an impoverished (cheap) labour force and the encouragement of ethnic strife between the competing ethnic groups – so as to prevent the underlying unity (amongst ethnic groups) that permits the building of Socialism. As the bourgeoisie will not stand-up to the US and EU – the result is the dramatic rise of the far-right.

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© RIA Novosti / Maxim Blinov Go to the media bank View of the Pushkinsky and Krymsky bridges in Moscow. Archive photo

Russia: I [2024] International Anti-Fascist Forum Begins in Moscow! (2.9.2026)

Russia dedicated the forum to the anniversaries of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Starting from the sixth forum held in 2020 and dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory, the all-Russian organization ”

Officers of Russia”. The forum was included in the “Plan of Main Events for the Year of Memory and Glory in the Russian Federation in 2020”.

In accordance with the decision of the International Anti-Fascist Forum-2020, the forum began to be held in an annual format on the eve of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Fascism (the second Sunday of September).

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The event is attended by the First Secretary of the Novosibirsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Anatoly Lokot!

Russia: III [2026] International Anti-Fascist Forum – Begins its Work! (2.9.2026)

Furthermore, Napoleon was not “defeated” by the Czarist Russian (he militarily defeated the Russians) – but whilst sat in the Kremlin eating caviar and smoking cigars – news arrived that a coup had started in Paris – and he was to leave straightaway. Out of the 600,000 (victorious) troops that followed him into Russia – only 50,000 managed to “walk” back to France – surviving the minus 50 degrees Celsius on the roads and in the fields. In a very real sense, Napoleon defeated himself and the Russians benefitted from this turn of fortune. Another glaring difference is that the USSR cut-off diplomatic links with Israel a number of times (the longest between 1967-1991) for its Zionist fascism and murderous policies in Gaza. Modern Russia maintains a very good relationship with Israel and refuses to support the UN ruling of “Genocide”. This attitude is seen in the fact that within the context of these “Anti-Fascist Forms” – Israeli “Zionism” is not permitted to be included within the list of far-right ideologies – or those ideologies that support, sponsor, or encourage “Terrorism”. This is precisely how a Scientific Socialist (dialectically) thinks and assesses.

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