Wednesday, February 18, 2026

An update for week 8 of 2026 – history of astronomy, archaeoastronomy, Mercury occluded, defend Cuba, #CloseBases February 21st-23rd, Red Books Day, etc.

A waxing crescent Moon will occult Mercury February 18th, seen from Arizona to Georgia:  lunar-occultations.com  It will be partly visible from the Southern Hemisphere.  More to come.   




The 2026 Global Days of Action to #CloseBases will be February 21st-23rd:  daytoclosebases.org


On the US prison camp/military base at Gitmo, taken from Cuba:  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2018/02/awtwns-ode-to-sea-art-from-guantanamo.html


The Guantanamo Survivors Fund:  gsfund.org



PSL, The People's Forum, the Hatuey Project, etc. are collecting tax-deductible donations to send medicines, solar power equipment, etc. to Cuba as the Trump-Vance intensify the economic (and covert?) war against the country.  


While NPR is pushing every day for near-future "regime change" and war in several countries, working with the Trump administration they portray as a great threat to US "democracy," maybe even admitting that the American people, or many of them, don't want yet more US wars, PBS NC, for whatever reason, happened to just rebroadcast Rick Steve's old pro-peace Iran travel program and The Volunteer (?), in which a Japanese-American veteran in California says that a black fellow soldier in Mississippi (?) saved his life during the Vietnam War, by keeping other soldiers from throwing him out of an aircraft during a medical evacuation (and so admitting that killing prisoners and doing so by tossing them out of aircraft was routine for US forces during the War).  On the other hand, PBS NC has also been broadcasting a documentary on the US Bay of Pigs operation against Cuba (told by a few Cuban exiles only, and without mention of the CIA, etc.?) in 2026.      


cpcml.ca/TML2026/T56004.HTM


www.letcubalive.info 


acere.org/diplomacy2026/


www.letcubaplay.com/


There will be a Week of Action in Defense of Cuba March 8th-15th. 


www.solidaritycollective.org/2026speakertour


www.solidaritycollective.org/upcoming-delegations



Red Books Day 2026 is February 21st – www.instagram.com/p/DUMeJRejJlN/






Some links from the interesting HASTRO history of astronomy listserve to check, and some others; some of this has been edited slightly and most or all of the brackets were added by the original authors: 



www.gob.pe/institucion/cultura/noticias/1296369-ministerio-de-cultura-historico-hallazgo-en-chankillo-redefine-los-origenes-de-la-astronomia-andina 


archaeologymag.com/2025/11/the-americas-earliest-known-observatory-in-peru/ 


jqjacobs.net/peru/chankillo.html 


The Sechín Alto Complex in the Pre-Hispanic Central Andes –jqjacobs.net/andes/images/latitude_sechin.jpg  


www.brepolsonline.net/doi/pdf/10.1484/J.JUA.5.133456  Casma-Sechin Archaeogeodesy


jqjacobs.net/andes/sechin.html


www.jqjacobs.net/andes/kml/sechin.kml 


"Scientists Reveal How The Maya Predicted Eclipses For Centuries" – 

www.sciencealert.com/scientists-reveal-how-the-maya-predicted-eclipses-for-centuries 


"The design and reconstructible history of the Mayan eclipse table of the Dresden Codex" (Science Advances, 10/22/25)  


Einstein and Darwin:  literaryyard.com/2025/11/09/with-einstein-and-darwin/


Two Egyptian Kings, Shepseskaf and Userkaf, and a solar eclipse (2471 BC)

Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

arxiv.org/pdf/2412.20407


Updike, John, ‘The Accelerating Expansion of the Universe,’’ Harper’s Magazine, October

2004, pages 71-76.


solar-center.stanford.edu/activities/jeff/Updike,Expanding%20Universe.pdf


michelangelobuonarrotietornato.com/2021/04/20/lorologio-del-duomo-di-firenze


commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Czech-2013-Prague-Astronomical_clock_face.jpg


www.cattedraledicremona.it/torrazzo-esterno


commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Brescia_Orologio_Piazza_Loggia.jpg


commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venice_clocktower_in_Piazza_San_Marco_%28torre_dell%27orologio%29_clockface.jpg


commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Padova_Piazza_dei_Signori_Torre_dell%27Orologio_Zifferblatt_1.jpg


commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exeter_Cathedral_astronomical_clock.jpg


commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Padova_Piazza_dei_Signori_Torre_dell%27Orologio_Zifferblatt_1.jpg


www.bbc.com/future/article/20251114-historys-epic-theories-of-what-causes-aurora


www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/16/spanish-armada-era-astrolabe-returns-to-scilly-after-mysterious-global-journey


arxiv.org/abs/2511.14809


Michael Lewis & Simon Portegies Zwart: The significance of Halley's Comet in the Bayeux Tapestry


www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt9039


brill.com/display/title/73276 Luís Ribeiro und Charles Burnett (editors), Astrologers at Work: Essays on the Practices and Techniques of Astrology in Memory of Helena Avelar


academia.edu/130002289/Galileo_and_the_Astrological_Prophecy_of_Manuel_Rosales


brill.com/display/title/73276?rskey=fd47EK&result=1


academia.edu/57168632/Galileos_first_trial


academia.edu/57168620/Galileos_astrology


academia.edu/129930699/Galileo_vs_1618s_Great_Comet_Fly_like_an_Eagle_


academia.edu/57168623/Galileo_and_the_new_star  Astronomy Now, Oct 1, 2004

        "Galileo's Astrology" a paper at the 2001 Eurosymposium on Galileo.

        The "Fly like and Eagle" Dio paper?


rutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Nautical-astrology-a-forgotten-early-modern-tradition.pdf


phys.org/news/2025-12-historical-geography-year-eclipse-mystery.html

The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 12/2/25:


"Analyses of the Ancient Chinese Report on the Total Solar Eclipse in

709 BCE: Implications for the Contemporaneous Earth’s Rotation Speed

and Solar Cycles"


iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0461


"The Medieval Moon: A

History of Haunting and Blessing"


yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300278286/the-medieval-moon/


aeon.co/essays/what-the-moon-meant-to-medieval-christian-and-islamic-authors


And NYRB or LRB??


Liber de Motibus Planetarum Nothaft? – journals.uco.es/mediterranea/article/view/10774/9955


www.sciengine.com/JAHH/issue


ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022AN....34320017P/abstract


A new, illustrated catalogue of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese historical star maps by Nha Il-Seong and Nha Sarah (in Korean) has been published:


화려하게 부활 한 東洋 天文圖 / Masterpieces of the oriental star maps / Hwaryŏhage puhwal han Tongyang ch'ŏnmundo  An English edition is forthcoming?


stellarium, "Chinese Chenzhuo Sky (3rd Century)"


"Korean" – Cheonsang Yeolcha Bunyajido



www.vaticanobservatory.org/sacred-space-astronomy/a-universe-of-earths-merry-christmas-to-me-and-thee/


www.vaticanobservatory.org/sacred-space-astronomy/busting-myths-in-a-universe-of-earths/


A Universe of Earths: Our Planet and Other Worlds, from Copernicus to NASA

Dennis Danielson, Christopher M Graney


academic.oup.com/book/61760


"The 75th volume in the series 'Acta Historica Astronomia' was published
a week ago with the title 'Astronomie in der DDR. Studien, Essays und
Erinnerungen' ('Astronomy in the GDR. Studies, Essays and Memories').
The 18 contributions are written in German, each with an English
abstract."

The abstract:

"The contributions in this volume deal with the history of astronomical
research in the Soviet occupation zone and the German Democratic
Republic. After introducing the relevant institutes and universities,
three important research locations are discussed: Potsdam, Jena and
Dresden. A list of astronomical dissertations provides an overview of
the research topics. The essay on the political history of the German
Astronomical Society provides insight into German-German relations.

Furthermore, eight astronomers are presented who exemplify different
paths of development: Cuno Hoffmeister and Hans Kienle, who already had
an influence on astronomical research before 1945; the physicist Kurt
Mie, who worked in astronomy after returning from a forced stay in the
USSR; Otto Singer as a state-affiliated science organiser and
populariser of astronomy; Wolfgang Mattig as one of the young hopefuls
who left the GDR shortly before the Berlin Wall was built and helped
shape research in the Federal Republic; Karl-Heinz Schmidt as one of
those who had a decisive influence on astronomical research in a leading
position; and finally Georg Dautcourt and Rudolf Tschäpe, who resisted
political constraints. In addition, there are four recollections from
contemporary witnesses."

"Further information:


Title pages and Table of Contents:

Foreword by the editors:

Preprints by...:

"Astronomie in der SBZ und der DDR, 1945-1990 - Ueberblick und
Bibliographie [Astronomy in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the GDR,
1945-1990 - overview and bibliography]

Dissertationen aus der SBZ/DDR in AstroGen
[PhD theses from the SBZ/GDR in AstroGen]

Der Physiker Kurt Mie (1900-1974) am Astrophysikalischen Observatorium
Potsdam [Physicist Kurt Mie (1900-1974) at the Potsdam Astrophysical
Observatory]

Otto Singer (1915-1977)


theconversation.com/science-has-always-been-marketed-from-18th-century-coffeehouse-demos-of-newtons-ideas-to-todays-tiktok-explainers-267707


Ancient World Magazine, 1/7/26:

"The Heavenly Antinous"

www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/heavenly-antinous-lost-constellation-almagest/


On the constellation:  penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Topics/astronomy/_Texts/secondary/ALLSTA/Antinous*.html


History of Astronomy from the Collection of Jay M. Pasachoff – to be auctioned by Christies –  onlineonly.christies.com/s/fine-printed-books-manuscripts-including-americana/lots/3766?COSID=43886776&cid=ms:eml%7Cst:mkt%7Cmi:3b40e069-8b34-4ac0-bd75-94cfff6b7989&bid=


Seventh-Century Greek Wine Cup Revealed as Ancient Star Map – greekreporter.com/2026/02/10/7th-century-greek-wine-cup-ancient-star-map/ and www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.83.2.0257 ?


research-portal.uu.nl/en/publications/instrumental-practices-in-seventeenth-century-optics/


On sighting tubes – ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1954C%26T....70..175M/abstract


www.forbiddenhistories.com/2018/05/astronomy-and-astrology/


Astronomia Danica – archive.org/details/astronomiadanica00long/page/41/mode/1up


"Eclipse Calendar for the Year 1676 by the mathematics and physics professor Johann Christoph Sturm (1635–1703)" 


"Greenbaum, Dorian Gieseler
(ed.), ‘Kepler’s
Astrology’,*Culture and Cosmos* Vol. 14 no 1 and 2, Spring/Summer and
Autumn/Winter 2010.

Free to download at https://www.cultureandcosmos.org/issues/vol14.php "


The Dark side of Isaac Newton by Nick Kollerstrom


The Enchantement of Urania: 25 Centuries of Exploration of the Sky by
Massimo Capaccioli (World Scientific), 2024, ISBN 978-981-124-777-4


"Isidore of Seville, *The Etymologies*, trans.
Stephen A. Barney, W.J. Lewis, J.A. Beach and Oliver Berghof (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2007), III.xxiv-xxvii"


Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science by Philip Ball (Yale University Press, 2025)

Alchemy Tried by Fire: Starky, Boyle, and the Fate of Helmontian Chemistry by Lawrence M Principe and William R Newman (University of Chicago Press, 2002)

Also by William R Newman:  Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's Secret Fire (Princeton University Press, 2018). 

Cultural History of Chemistry Volumes 1–6 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025)


"Norris, Ray and M. Norris, 'Why are there Seven Sisters?' (Advancing
Cultural Astronomy, 2021)

Abstract:

'There are two puzzles surrounding the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters.
First, why are the mythological stories surrounding them, typically
involving seven young girls being chased by a man associated with the
constellation Orion, so similar in vastly separated cultures, such as
the Australian Aboriginal cultures and Greek mythology? Second, why do
most cultures call them 'Seven Sisters' even though most people with
good eyesight see only six stars? Here we show that both these puzzles
may be explained by a combination of the great antiquity of the
stories combined with the proper motion of the stars, and that these
stories may predate the departure of most modern humans out of Africa
around 100,000 BC.'

Limited access:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-64606-6_11 [ or link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-64606-6 , arxiv.org/abs/2101.09170 and gwern.net/doc/history/2021-norris-2.pdf ?


The full article can be read here:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0zgle7u0ynba2dl3jxxdl/sevensisters.pdf?rlkey=jbpxcdaj83ugsjxukkrm0gh57&e=2 "


www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/236 and www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/OvidFastiBkFour.php#anchor_Toc69367846


www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NymphaiPleiades.html


By Lorenzo Verderame, regarding Mesopotamia:  www.maajournal.com/index.php/maa/article/view/752


By Maria Teresa Renzi-Sepe:  www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/The_Perception_of_the_Pleiades_in_Mesopotamian_Culture/title_7320.ahtml ?


Beyond the Blue Horizon:  Myths and Legends of the Sun, Moon, Stars, and Planets by E.C. Krupp, 1991 (New York: HarperCollins)


"Blue-Seven Phenomenon" – ?


From Phillip Helbig:


Maitrāyaṇīya Upaniṣad verse 1.7 – अथ किमेतैर्वान्यानां शोषणं महार्णवानां शिखरिणां प्रपतनं ध्रुवस्य प्रचलनं स्थानं वा तरूणां निमज्जनं पृथिव्याः स्थानादपसरणं सुराणं सोऽहमित्येतद्विधेऽस्मिन्संसारे किं कामोपभोगैर्यैरेवाश्रितस्यासकृदिहावर्तनं दृश्यत इत्युद्धर्तुमर्हसीत्यन्धोदपानस्थो भेक इवाहमस्मिन्संसारे भगवंस्त्वं नो गतिस्त्वं नो गतिः


"Translation:


Furthermore, what is the point of these or other things—the drying up of the great oceans, the crumbling of the mountain peaks, the shaking of the pole star, the uprooting of trees, the submerging of the earth, or the displacement of the gods from their positions? In such a world as this, I am as I am; what use are the enjoyments of desire, through which one is seen to return to this existence repeatedly? You should lift me up, for I am like a frog in a blind well within this cycle of rebirth. O Lord, you are our refuge, you are our final resort.


"There is a statement in Mahabharata 6.2.31 which talks about Vashishta (Mizar) and Arundhati (Alcor): या चैषा विश्रुता राजंस्त्रैलोके साधुसंमता


अरुन्धती तयाप्येष वसिष्ठः पृष्टः कृतः


Translation:  And, O king, she who is praised in the three worlds and esteemed highly by the Sādhus, Arundhatī, she has even taken [her husband] Vasiṣṭha on her back.


[In this verse an unusual situation is being pointed out whereby normally Vasistha is ahead of Arundhati but here the opposite is happening]


Between 11088BC and 4509 BC the Right Ascension of Arundhati [Alcor] was greater than that of Vasiṣṭha [Mizar]."


Ammarell, G. and Tsing, A.L. (2015):  "Cultural Production of Skylore in
Indonesia." –  Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy, edited by Clive Ruggles; Springer, pp. 2207-2214.


link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_236


Paul Kunitzsch and Manfred Ullmann, 1992, "on the role of the Pleiades in Arabic poetry" –

www.zobodat.at/publikation_volumes.php?id=56408


On the Pleiades and the Hyades – "OVID TRISTIΑ BOOK I THE TEXT REVISED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY S. G. OWEN, B.A. (1885). United Kingdom: Clarendon Press."  – page 100


A new issue of The Observatory:  www.obsmag.org/issues/published/2026/02/

Including:

1:  Gustav Holmberg: The 1946 Outburst of T CrB Observed from Stockholm
    Observatory

3: Ian Ridpath: Who Named the Stars of the Pleiades?

43: Book review: David H. DeVorkin: From the Laboratory to the Moon: The
    Quiet Genius of George R. Carruthers (review by Robert Connon Smith)

46: Book review: A. E. L. Davis, J. V. Field & T. J. Mahoney: Reading
    the Mind of God: Johannes Kepler and the Reform of Astronomy (review
    by Barry Kent)


Smithsonian Magazine, 2/3/26:


"Medieval Monks Wrote Over a Copy of an Ancient Star Catalog.  Now, a Particle Accelerator Is Revealing the Long-Lost Original Text" – 


www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-monks-wrote-over-a-copy-of-an-ancient-star-catalog-now-a-particle-accelerator-is-revealing-the-long-lost-original-text-180988123/


journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00218286221128289


journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00218286241256345


ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025JHA....56..287G/abstract


link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-18683-8 , page 187


The Burunh Program (at Australia's University of Melbourne):  www.burunh.org


www.burunh.org/seminars


theconversation.com/for-40-you-can-name-a-star-for-your-valentine-but-it-wont-mean-much-274742



WGSN:  exopla.net/star-names/best-practise-for-star-names/


exopla.net/star-names/wgsn-guidelines/


scilogs.spektrum.de/uhura-uraniae/astronomers-valentine-2/


The IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO):  iauoutreach.org/rules-to-name-a-star


IAU-Catalog of Star Names (CSN):  exopla.net/star-names/modern-iau-star-names/


Julio Samso Moya, a historian of Islamic and medieval astronomy, passed away February 13, 2026.


The Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar (but there is a fee?) – www.abramsplanetarium.org/SkyCalendar/


Search for "Gaston Ripert meteorite Chinguetti Mauretania"


Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5:315-331, when Typhon came upon the Greek gods


A new issue of e-News, from the Society for the History of Astronomy (SHA) (in the UK):  societyforthehistoryofastronomy.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/SHA-eNews-2026-01.pdf


Past issues:  societyforthehistoryofastronomy.com/the-e-news/


PhysOrg, 12/31/25:


"Wind-battered Lick Observatory rushes to shield historic telescope

after dome damage"


phys.org/news/2025-12-battered-observatory-shield-historic-telescope.html


www.lickobservatory.org/gifts/update-on-storm-damage-at-lick-observatory/


www.facebook.com/LickObservatory 


The director of the University of California Observatories:  bsky.app/profile/bmacastro.bsky.social 






thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myths-and-lore-of-the-milky-way/


thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/sky-gazing-on-mars/


troubledminds.substack.com/p/the-old-stories-remember-when-myth  


See also – Elizabeth Wayland Barber ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Wayland_Barber ) and Paul T Barber's When They Severed Earth from Sky:  How the Human Mind Shapes Myth (2004-2005)? – library.unc.edu/find/?q="When+they+severed+earth+from+sky+%3A+how+the+human+mind..."


troubledminds.substack.com/p/what-else-the-old-stories-remember


www.farmersalmanac.com/fond-farewell-from-farmers-almanac


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Radin


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho-Chunk_mythology


hotcakencyclopedia.com/ho.Radin@APS.html


? – web.archive.org/web/20070103031700/http://www.tcinternet.net/users/cbailey/RedHorn.html


? – hotcakencyclopedia.com


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Horn


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeastern_Ceremonial_Complex


www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=SP012


In far eastern Oklahoma – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Mounds


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddoan_Mississippian_culture


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddo


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawnee_people


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wichita_people


A chiefdom in Georgia – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocute


A chiefdom in South Carolina – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofitachequi


In Mount Gilead, in Montgomery County, North Carolina – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Creek_Indian_Mound


A chiefdom in Burke County, North Carolina – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joara


A chiefdom in Georgia – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coosa_chiefdom


Near Natchez, Mississippi – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez_people


Near Macon, Georgia – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocmulgee_Mounds_National_Historical_Park


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_mounds_and_village_site


Near Blakely, in southwestern Georgia, near the border with Alabama – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolomoki_Mounds


Etowah in northern Georgia – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etowah_Indian_Mounds


Near Tuscaloosa, Alabama – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moundville_Archaeological_Site


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moundville_phase


Cahokia in East Saint Louis, Illinois – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia


In northern Louisiana – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_Point


The Weeden Island site, near Tampa and Pinellas Park in Florida – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeden_Island_culture


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alachua_culture


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alachua_County,_Florida


? – web.archive.org/web/20180422202841/


www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/nat_amer/pre/htmls/m_sites.html


www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/nat_amer/pre/htmls/m_beliefs.html


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippian_stone_statuary


From Wikipedia:


Dampier, Bennett Harrison. THE MOTH AND THE MOONFLOWER:  DATURA AND HAWK MOTH ICONOGRAPHY ACROSS ANCIENT AMERICA, Texas State University, 2022.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_stramonium


2022 Romain, William F., and Edward W. Herrmann.  An Archaeoastronomic Assessment of Angel Mounds, Indiana, with Commentary on Moundville, Alabama, and Cahokia, Illinois. Midcontinental Journal of  Archaeology (2022)


UNC professors Steponaitis Vincas P., and C. Margaret Scarry, eds. Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland ; etc.


In Moundsville, in northern West Virginia (an Adena site?) – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_Creek_Mound


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Saturday, February 07, 2026

Unity & Struggle issue #51 (November 2025) published

The November 2025 issue of Unity and Struggle, journal of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO, cipoml.net/ ; in English, Spanish, and Turkish) came out by the evening of December 13th and can be ordered from Red Star Publishers (orders from outside the USA will probably cost more).  In December two different but identical (?) printings were available, being sold for I think $5 and $7 dollars (the version sold for around $5 might have run out by now; I'm sorry for the delayed notice).  Back issues might also be available.


Tambien disponible en español.



Contents: 


Brazil

The Struggle Against Opportunism in the Workers Movement

Revolutionary Communist Party – RCP


Denmark

The Cause of Socialism and the Party that Defends It

Communist Party of the Workers of Denmark – AKP


Dominican Republic

The Society of the Spectacle Is the Expression of the Victory of Economics over Society and with Culture It Is Possible to Reverse It

Communist Party of Labor – PCT


Ecuador

The Unity of the Communists

Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador – PCMLE


France

A New Cycle in the Class Struggle!

Communist Party of the Workers of France – PCOF


Germany

Germany's Arms Race and War Preparations Are Accelerating: A Strong Peace Movement Is Needed

Organization for the Construction of the Communist Party of the Workers of Germany


India

Disarming the Working Class: Strengthening the State: The New Labour Codes Enacted by the Indian Parliament

Revolutionary Democracy


Italy

War policy and militarism in Italy

Organization for the Communist Party of the Proletariat (Italy)


Mexico

Sheinbaum's First Government Report: Continuity and Deepening of Neoliberalism in Mexico

Communist Party of Mexico (Marxist-Leninist)


Morocco

Why the Worker-Peasant Alliance?

Democratic Workers’ Way, Morocco


Peru

The Hispanic Question

Peruvian Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist


Spain

Stalin and the Great Patriotic War

Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) – PCE (ml)


Tunisia

On the Anniversary of the Victory over Fascism: Fascism Has Made a Strong Comeback, Here and There

Workers’ Party of Tunisia


Turkey

The Chinese "Enigma" from the Perspective of the Chinese Proletariat

Party of Labor (EMEP)


United States

Crisis in the Bourgeois Legal System

American Party of Labor


Uruguay

Let Us Revolutionize the Party, Let Us Be the Vanguard of the Working Class!

Communist Reconstruction – Uruguay


Venezuela

Revolutionary Response to the Advance of World Fascistization

Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Venezuela – PCMLV


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October 2025 issue of Revolutionary Democracy published

The October 2025 issue of the English-language Indian Marxist-Leninist theoretical, political, and historical journal Revolutionary Democracy ( revolutionarydemocracy.org ) came out by the morning of October 12th and can be ordered from Red Star Publishers ( redstarpublishers.org ) for $8 dollars, which covers the shipping cost within the US.  For more information about ordering see the website.  Their postal mailbox has been discontinued and payments must be made through PayPal or by special arrangement.  Many of the articles are also posted on Revolutionary Democracy's website.


Brick and mortar bookstores, organizations, and individuals selling copies in Canada, India, the UK, and the USA are listed on the current issue page at revolutionarydemocracy.org , linked at the top of the menu on the left and some are listed below.  



Bookculture – 536 West 112th Street, New York, New York 10025


Center for Marxist Education – 550 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139


May Day Books – 301 Cedar Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454 


Red Emma's – 30 West North Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21201


Sankofa Video & Books – 2714 Georgia Drive, Washington, DC 20001  



At The Stalin Society and at the National Office of the New Communist Party, both in London, UK 



Janchetna – D-68, Nirala Nagar, Lucknow-226020


Pragatisheel Sahitya Sadan – Indralok Apartment, opposite Allahabad Bank, Patna 800006 


People's Book House – Meher House Cawasji Patel Street Fort, Mumbai-400001


Navodaya Book House – Opp. Arya Samaj Mandir Kathigada, Hyderabad 500027


Mythry Book House – Masjid Lane, Karl Marx Road, Vijayawada 520002, Andhra Pradesh


Prajasakhti Book House – Door No. 27-1-54, Karl Marx Road, Vijayawada-520002, Andhra Pradesh

 

Punjab Book Centre – S.C.O. 1126-27, Sector 22-B, Chandigarh


Anwesha Book Store – Barowary, Chenikutti, Guwahati-781003


Eklavya Prakashani – Malow Ali, Jorhat, Assam-785001


Notun Padathik – Opp. Assam Engineering Institute Chandmari, Guwahati 781003, Assam 


Progressive Book Centre – BHU Campus, Viswanathan Temple Gate, Varanasi, U.P.


Lokayat Prakashan – 883 Lodhon Ki Goli, M.D. Road, Jaipur, Rajasthan 


Keezhaikkaru – c/o A. Mukundan, 16, Arumanaichaavadi, Near Anthonyaar Church, Cantt Palaavaram, Chennai 600043


Progressive Book House – M.L. Nehru Road, Pan Bazaar, Guwahati-781001, Assam 


People's Publishing House – 18A Marina Arcade, G Block, Connaught Place, New Delhi-110001


People Tree – 8, Regal Building Connaught Place, New Delhi-110001


Geeta Book Centre – Kamal Shopping Complex  JNU New Campus, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi-67


People's Publishing House – J.N.U. New Campus, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi-67


Su Ku Ning's Black Holes – Khurai Lamlong Keithal, A.P. Road, Imphal East, Manipur-795002  

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Badruddin Umar (Bengali: বদরুদ্দীন উমর; December 20, 1931 in Bardhaman, Bengal Presidency, British India – after 10am on September 7, 2025 at the Bangladesh Specialized Hospital in Shyamoli, Dhaka, Bangladesh; the funeral prayer met at the Dhaka University Central Mosque and he was interred in the Jurain cemetery late in the afternoon on September 8th); he became a member of the Communist Party of East Pakistan (ML) in 1969 and edited its weekly Shaptahik Ganashakhti February 1970-March 1971; he led the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (বাংলাদেশের সাম্যবাদী দল (মার্কসবাদী-লেনিনবাদী ; the BSD-ML or the CPBML; founded in 1976) and he was president of the Bangladesh Krishak Federation (Bangladesh Peasant Federation; founded in 1978), the Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir (Bangladesh writers' camp? ; like a writers' union/intelligentsia organization?), and the Jatiya Mukti Council (National Liberation Council; founded in 2003):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badruddin_Umar , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Bangladesh_(Marxist–Leninist)_(Umar) , and revolutionarydemocracy.org  [ And:  redphoenixnews.com/2025/09/11/a-bright-red-star-has-joined-the-heavens-2/ ]



Russian communist revolutionary Dmitry Fedorovich Pirozhkov (March 22,m 1946 – June 19, 2025; he is buried in Saint Petersburg's Southern Cemetery); he was a founder and editor of the newspaper Proletarskaya Gazeta, founded in 1999; he appears in a series on YouTube with Georgii Eremin YouTube.com/live/IcoTvSee-YU?si=qlqoQrNcbDrsoZEh  NorthStar Compass?  



An article from Proletarskaya Gazeta is re-posted here:  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/01/proletarskaya-gazeta-intrigues-of-us.html



Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (Александр Александрович Богданов; born Alexander Malinovsky; August 22, 1873 in Sokółka, Grodno Governorate, Russian Empire; now in Poland – April 7, 1928 in Moscow):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bogdanov and www.marxists.org/archive/bogdanov/index.htm 



Georgi Dimitrov Mihaylov (Bulgarian: Георги Димитров Михайлов) / Georgiy Mihaylovich Dimitrov (Russian: Георгий Михайлович Димитров); (June 18, 1882 in Kovachevtsi, Bulgaria – July 2, 1949 at a sanatorium in Barvikha, Moscow; it has been suggested that he was poisoned):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Dimitrov , revolutionarydemocracy.org , www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/index.htm , ml-review.ca/aml/index/subject.html#d , marx2mao.com/Other/Index.html#F&H , and  neodemocracy.blogspot.com  michaelharrison.org.uk/ ?  See a summer calendar post for more details.  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2022/06/on-140th-anniversary-of-georgi.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/04/some-additional-events-and.html ,  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/08/summer-came-in-with-buzz-and-whirr-goes.html, etc.



Josip Broz Tito (Tito is an assumed name; May 7, 1892 in Kumrovec, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary, now in northern Croatia – May 4, 1980 in Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito and www.marxists.org/archive/tito/index.htm



[ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milovan_Djilas 



Kim Il Sung (김일성 ; born Kim Song Ju or 김성주 ? ; April 15. 1912 in Pyongyang, Korea, Empire of Japan – July 8, 1994 in Hyangsan, North Pyongan, DPR Korea):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Il_Sung , www.marxists.org/archive/kim-il-sung/index.htm , ml-review.ca/aml/index/subject.html , and  neodemocracy.blogspot.com (?)  michaelharrison.org.uk/ ?  See a spring calendar post for more details.  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/04/some-additional-events-and.html , etc.



Peng Dehuai or Peng Teh-Huai ( 彭德怀 ; October 24, 1898 in Shixiang, Xiangtan County, Hunan, China – November 29, 1974 in Beijing) :  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peng_Dehuai and www.marxists.org/archive/peng-dehuai/index.htm




"Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, Only the Flag Was Red" was in the August 2025 issue of Towards Marxist-Leninist Unity:  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/08/august-2025-issue-of-towards-ml-unity.html



An En Marcha article is re-posted here:  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2017/12/pcmle-in-china-capitalism-is-being.html 




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Revolutionary Democracy

Volume 2, No. 2     October 2025


Contents:


Military coup in Nepal: Army ousts government and dissolves parliament exploiting the 8th September Gen-Z protest, Karan Varma


The post-July uprising in Bangladesh, Badruddin Umar


Obituaries of Badruddin Umar (1931- 2025)


Comrade Badruddin Umar – the untiring voice of the toiling people of Bangladesh! Revolutionary Democracy


Comrade Badruddin Umar and his Struggle, Shafi Rahman


Badruddin Umar was one of the foremost faces of the Left in Bangladesh who remained undeterred from challenging Oppression, Harsh Thakor


Condolence Meeting.


Obituaries of Dmitry Fedorovich Pirozhkov (1946-2025), Georgii Eremin, Vladimir Nikiforov


P. Sundarayya’s ‘My Resignation’ – Fifty Years On, Aditya Nigam


50 years of CPI(M)'s founding General Secretary's Resignation – what it tells us about the communist movement in India today, Comrades of Bengal


Book Review: ‘Stalin and Indonesia. Soviet Policy Towards Indonesia: Unknown Pages’ by Larisa Elfimova, Aahwan Singh


Disarming the Working Class: Strengthening the State, The New Labour Codes Enacted by the Indian Parliament, CN Subramaniam


 The BJP government's politics of disenfranchising masses in Bihar, Karan Varma


Statement on the current confrontation between the governments of India and Pakistan


50 years of CPI(M)'s founding General Secretary's Resignation –- what it tells us about the communist movement in India today, Comrades of Bengal


Imperialist Trade Attacks and the Erosion of Sovereignty, NTUI


Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, Towards Marxist-Leninist Unity, New York


Trump is a continuation of the politics of imperialism, albeit in decline, George Gruenthal


Developments in Bolivia: "Progressivism" is defeated, En Marcha


Final Declaration of the 29th International Seminar: Problems of the Revolution in Latin America


Declaration of the Meeting of Latin American Parties, Members of the ICMLPO.


The Party’s Struggle against Bogdanov’s Reformist Theories on ‘Proletarian Culture’, A.V. Shchegolov


Letter from Tito to Dimitrov on the Visit of Djilas.


Some Problems of the People’s Democratic Revolution in the DPRK, Vijay Singh


Conversation between I.V. Stalin and the delegation of the DPRK headed by Kim Il Sung, (5 March, 1949)


Record of Stalin's conversation with Kim Il Sung and Peng Dehuai (September 4, 1952)


Further Materials on the Correspondence of Ajoy Ghosh, CPI, with the CPSU(B), 1952


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