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In the crosshairs of AI (part three)

Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left. Part three proposes organizing interventions and strategies of resistance for the Left.

In the crosshairs of AI (part two)

Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left. Part two explores AI’s connection to global labor, climate, and imperialism struggles.

In the crosshairs of AI (part one)

Ashley Smith interviews two advanced tech workers, Josh and Yasmine, on the rise of artificial intelligence and its many intersecting implications for the nature of our lives, labor, and the Left. Part one provides an analysis of the political, financial, and existential “hype” around AI.

The gang rape at Cornell

Dana Cloud puts the horrific rape at Cornell in the context of a socialist analysis of gender violence and the fight for women’s liberation.

Anti-Woke electoralism

Hakan Yilmaz argues that flip-flopping on wokeness is a byproduct of the electoralist logic embraced by right-wing DSA caucuses that make up DSA’s leadership majority, and that discounting movements that center the rights of oppressed communities moves the socialist movement away from the long-term goal of building strong and democratic working-class organizations.

We have to do something

Ohio professor and activist Pranav Jani interviews organizer Kristen Guptill-Godfrey about solidarity and socialist organizing.

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The economics of U.S. imperialism (part 1)

Despite mounting corporate debt and a disastrous war on Iran, the U.S. economy is powering ahead—led by the investment boom in AI. G. Stewart explores the resilience of the economy and the contradictions that threaten to undermine it.

Workers will fight for their self-interest

Kim Moody assesses some recent writings and interview by Catalyst editor and podcaster Professor Vivek Chibber on state planning, market socialism and the transition to socialism.

In defense of abolition

As prominent leftists and progressives scramble to walk back their previous commitments to “woke” demands, the Tempest National Committee explains why abolition politics is fundamental to socialism.

Confronting the ecological crisis

Paul Fleckenstein reviews Ian Angus’s Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism Assault on the Earth System and argues that the book makes an important contribution to understanding and guiding a socialist response to our compounding ecological crisis.

How do we stop the bloodshed?

In the wake of the ICE murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine over the summer, the Tempest National Committee makes the case for the Left to build and support independent immigrant defense networks.

Trump’s legal conspiracy (part two)

In part two of this two-part article, George B. Washington discusses the Trump administration’s efforts to weaponize the Department of Justice under his NSPM-7 guidance and the resistance he met in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis.

Trump’s legal conspiracy (part one)

In part one of this two-part article, George B. Washington discusses the Trump administration’s efforts to weaponize the Department of Justice under his NSPM-7 guidance and the devastating results of the Prairieland case.

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