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We need to begin building organized labor-community resistance to the unchecked development and deployment of these systems and support for a technology policy that prioritizes our health and safety, promotes worker empowerment, and ensures that humans can review and, when necessary, override AI decisions.
Next February, the France Insoumise, “France in Revolt”, largest organization of the radical left in France, will be ten years old, but in-depth Marxist writings on its nature and prospects, particularly those published in English, have been very few. This article aims to show what is specific about it, and give a view on how revolutionaries should engage with the movement.
The 2020s have been “a good decade for billionaires”, according to Oxfam’s annual report on global wealth inequality. It’s somewhat of an understatement. In the first half of the decade, the number of billionaires passed 3,000 for the first time.
Far from being a relic of the past, peasants are vital to feeding the world. They need to be supported, not marginalised.
An impressive display of world class scientists recently (Nov. 27th) held a ‘UK National Emergency Briefing’, informing the world of impending climate change disaster scenarios that can no longer be ignored. A war-time footing is necessary.
‘For Cuban People, Surrender is Not an Option’: Once again, Cubans have reaffirmed their commitment to the revolution and their creative resistance in the face of the latest US attacks. Also: ‘The Cuban Revolution Holds Out Against U.S. Imperialism’; ‘Will Cuba Survive?’; ‘5 Cuban Women Resistance Stories That Defy U.S. Blockade Brutality’.
The filmmaker explains that in Venezuela the Bolivarian revolution is not just about leaders like Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, but about popular participation through grassroots structures called “communes” and “municipalities.” These are democratic bodies where ordinary people organize, decide, and manage local projects.
Six Palestine Action activists who broke into an Israeli arms factory in the UK have been acquitted or not convicted of all charges against them.
Marx’s concept of alienation is a crucial idea that bridges his early philosophical work with his mature critique of political economy. The development of this concept emerged, for Marx, as a necessary way to think about the limitations of purely political and religious movements for freedom.
‘After the Headlines Fade: Gaza Abandoned While the Genocide Persists’; ‘What Does Israel Want from Renewed Attacks on Gaza? Analysts Explain the Political Calculus’; ‘Who Are the Criminals? Listen to Hind Rajab’; ‘Freedom for Some, Silence for Others: What You Need to Know About Palestinian Hostages Held by Israel, and Ignored by the World’.
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