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Big Tech, AI and digital liberation

Resistance to the AI offensive is clearly needed. Marty Hart-Landsberg contends it will have to be a resistance with muscle developed through strong organising and alliance building.
Pax Silica signing

Pax Silica: A plan for peace or preparations for war?

Is Pax Silica an innocuous agreement for economic cooperation or an instrument of domination? To understand what it is meant to accomplish, Nicholas considers the context from which it emerges.
Amazon workers

We’ll take those odds

Sam Gindin on the contemporary crisis of legitimacy, the importance of revitalizing organized labor, and the generation-defining project of organizing Amazon.
Paradise wildfire

Sitting on a time bomb

Fires, floods and heatwaves are warning signs of a social order whose pursuit of endless accumulation is colliding with ecological limits, contends Phil Hearse.
A pedestrian walks past a mural featuring oil wells in Caracas, Venezuela on August 29, 2026, a day after US President Donald Trump announced a deal giving the United States a stake in Venezuela’s oil reserves

The Trump–Rodríguez pact and Venezuela’s neocolonial subordination

The US-Venezuela oil deal, a product of the pact between “brutalist” imperialism and an authoritarian regime, represents the exercise of arbitrary power through neocolonial subordination, writes Emiliano Teran Mantovani.

DSA’s Ella Teevan: ‘Socialism has broken containment in the United States’

Ella Teevan discusses the US midterms, how the Democratic Socialists of America can build on its successes, and challenging US imperialism and President Donald Trump’s far-right agenda.
Mecca Pact signing

The meaning of the Mecca Pact

The real meaning of the Mecca Pact between Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan lies not in what it is today, contends Michael Pröbsting, but in what it reflects and could become in the future.
DSA vote photo

United States: This summer, DSA enters a new period

There are elections where nothing happens — this is often the case — but every once in a while there are elections where big things happen, contends Neal Meyer.
De La Espriella

Colombia and Latin America: A new stage of the struggle

Far right politician Abelardo de la Espriella will soon be sworn in as president, but Colombia is far from being under the control of the United States, reports Ted Zuur.
Venezuela earthquakes

The political, social and economic impact of Venezuela’s twin earthquakes (plus: Despite quakes, US withholds 70% of Venezuela’s oil income)

The Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee reveal the extent of the tragedy triggered by Venezuela’s double earthquake, amid US military aggression, tutelage and financial restrictions.
Zohran Mamdani

Trumpism, Mamdani and the revolutionary party we need

Paul Le Blanc responds to criticism of his recent text on the situation in the United States, “Defining Trumpism, defeating Trump”.
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On Trump and Trumpism: Inventory versus state form

Anthony Teso contends that socialist analysis must identify the structure it confronts and the organisation capable of defeating it, rather than registering dangers and applauding resistance.