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French youth rise against the bankers’ budget

October 7, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha

French high school students rose up against crumbling schools and ran straight into the bond market. The government in Paris says there is no money for teachers or classrooms. It is handing more to bankers […]

AI comes into being as capital

October 7, 2026 Gary Wilson

Artificial intelligence is usually discussed in terms of what the technology can do. Will it replace jobs, write books, diagnose illness, design weapons, discover medicines? Will the machines outthink humanity? The more basic question is […]

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Latin America under the White House’s thumb

October 7, 2026 Frei Betto

Oct. 6, 2026 If you intend to vote for Flavio Bolsonaro — who promises to throw Brazil’s doors wide open to U.S. interests and who, like his brother Eduardo, enjoys kissing Trump’s hands — you’d […]

The U.S. blockade that helped bring down the Soviet Union is failing against China

October 6, 2026 Gary Wilson

The United States government is trying to choke off China’s supply of the most advanced computer chips and the machines that make them. The target is artificial intelligence, which China is putting to work in […]

Genocide and imperialism: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the bombing of Cubana 455

October 6, 2026 Isaac Saney

October 6, 2026, marks the 50th anniversary of the horrific terrorist attack on Cubana Airliner Flight 455. In the western hemisphere this was the first and is the only bombing of a civilian airliner during […]

Youth uprisings: French students lead the way

October 6, 2026 Sarah Guebre-Egziabher

Oct. 5, 2026 Since late September, secondary school students across France have risen up in protest against the state of public education, left crumbling after years of cuts and “efficiency”-maximizing reforms. They have walked out, […]

Capitalism and AI: A working-class program

October 6, 2026 Sharon Black

Science’s development is not the enemy. The question — always the question — is who owns it, who controls it, and to what purpose they wield it. At Trump’s inauguration, the top tech capitalists stood […]

Pentagon puts Musk at the center of its war planning

October 6, 2026 Gary Wilson

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Palmer Luckey’s Anduril do billions of dollars of business with the Pentagon. Now, the Pentagon has given the two billionaires the job of telling it what to buy. On Sept. 30, […]

Behind every ‘rogue’ AI agent is a boss

October 5, 2026 Gary Wilson

An AI agent can’t break into a government database or pick a bombing target until someone gives it the job, the tools and the keys. Now the people who handed it the keys want the […]

Is starvation Rubio’s only strategy? The new attack on Cuba’s private sector

October 3, 2026 Cheryl LaBash

Washington, D.C., October 3, 2026 Secretary of State Rubio got the jump on ‘Sanctions Thursday’ unveiling his new sanctions and revisions to the OFAC Frequently Asked Question website on Tuesday, September 29. Thursdays have been […]