Month: February 2025

Deepseekwebinar
China

AI for the people? How China’s AI development challenges U.S. big tech

February 17, 2025 Gary Wilson
The following text is based on a talk given by Gary Wilson at the “Deep Seek and the Challenge to U.S. Technological Hegemony” webinar on Feb. 16, hosted by the Friends of Socialist China and […]
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In the U.S.

Community drives out Nazis in Ohio

February 17, 2025 Gregory E. Williams
On Feb. 7, a hundred residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, drove out a dozen armed neo-Nazis waving swastika flags. This community is about 70 miles from Springfield, where Silicon Valley darling JD Vance and Elon […]
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Malcolm X

Malcolm X and Ghassan Kanafani: Revolutionary thinkers across worlds

February 17, 2025 Colby Byrd
Malcolm X and Ghassan Kanafani: Two revolutionary thinkers and writers who preached the same message, worlds away. Both men understood the complexity of the style of capitalism that had been unleashed on Black and Brown […]
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Around the world

The demise of USAID: Few regrets in Latin America

February 15, 2025 John Perry and Roger D. Harris
“Take your money with you,” said Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, when told about Trump’s plans to cut aid to Latin America, “it’s poison.” USAID (US Agency for International Development) spends around $2 billion annually in Latin America, […]
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Around the world

USAID: the Empire reinvents itself

February 15, 2025 Rosa Miriam Elizalde
Elon Musk, sworn in as Secretary for Government Efficiency, thundered: “The time has come for USAID to die.” His words resonated like the harbinger of an imminent storm. Shortly afterwards, Donald Trump, on his first […]
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Malcolm X

Apryle Everly: What Malcolm X means to me

February 15, 2025 Apryle Everly
We share this piece to commemorate the revolutionary leader Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago on Feb. 21, 1965.  Malcolm X, to me, embodies one of the many great examples of what it […]
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Labor and strikes

Federal workers’ unions hold the line against Trump

February 14, 2025 Lev Koufax
Attack on federal workers is an attack on all workers The Trump-Musk axis has never been shy about the fact they wanted to bust up federal organized labor.  The Trump campaign made a lot of […]
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Malcolm X

Malcolm X had global view of struggle

February 14, 2025 Gloria Verdieu and John Parker
Feb. 21, 2025, marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El Shabazz). Malcolm was killed just two months before his 40th birthday while speaking at an Organization of African American […]
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Events

National Forum honoring Malcolm X – Feb. 23

February 14, 2025 Struggle for Socialism
Immigration and Black Liberation – What Would Malcolm X Say This is the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, which took place on Feb. 21, 1965. To pay tribute to this anniversary, the […]
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Malcolm X

Colby Byrd: What Malcolm X means to me

February 14, 2025 Colby Byrd
We share this piece to commemorate the revolutionary leader Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago on Feb. 21, 1965.  Malcolm X means an unshakable Brotherhood made in Blood. He means Uncompromising Resistance. He […]