Marty Hart-Landsberg — The uncritical and rapidly increasing adoption of AI systems by schools, businesses, the media, and the military represents a serious threat to our collective well-being. We need to push back, and push back hard, against this big tech offensive.

Max Elbaum — MAGA’s fast-moving coup is upending the longstanding arrangements that have undergirded domestic politics and the US role in the world. What does this mean for the resistance, and how can the US left maximize its impact?

Dipankar Bhattacharya — After eleven years of unchecked consolidation of fascist forces at the helm of power, should Indian communists still wait longer to call the growing disaster by its historically known name?

Oleksandr Kyselov — With a madman in the White House, all pretences have fallen away and raw power again reigns supreme. But if the left acts in a quick and determined manner now, it can help give peace a chance.

Boris Kagarlitsky — Washington’s new orientation is towards dominance, one that does not take into account the interests or rights of others, and in which Russia is being openly offered the role of junior partner.

Dmitry Pozhidaev — Lenin’s vision of the national question was far from assimilationist; it was a dialectical approach that recognised proletarian internationalism could only be built on respect for national and cultural differences.

Paul Le Blanc explains why he is rejoining Solidarity and how it fits into his thinking about what we are facing and “what is to be done” at this point in time.

From prison on Imrali Island, Abdullah Öcalan has issued a call to members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party to lay down their arms and dissolve the organisation.

Ebru Günay — The resolution of the Kurdish issue is not only crucial for the Kurdish people but for the shared future of all peoples in Turkey and the region.

Michael Karadjis breaks down some myths surrounding Israel, Iran and the fall of the Assad regime.

Moritz Warnke writes that snap elections saw stunning gains for left and right, while Ines Schwerdtner and Jan van Aken dissect Die Linke’s remarkable comeback.

Li Andersson discusses the challenges posed by Russia’s war in Ukraine and Trump’s return.