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Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism’s tendency to replace living labor with machines can help shed light on how AI take-up may develop.

SAN FRANCISCO (Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone Lands)—Microsoft’s latest sustainability report paints a picture of climate progress while omitting one of the company’s biggest climate liabilities: a massive deployment of fossil fuel-powered infrastructure to power its growing AI and data center empire. A new Stand.earth-commissioned analysis finds Microsoft makes no mention of three planned fossil gas power plants, totaling 4.75 […]

Iran has destroyed much of the US’s military infrastructure across West Asia and strengthened its position by controlling the Strait of Hormuz — yet Trump has learned nothing from his defeat.

The storming of the Bastille was the opening act in a century-long upheaval that broke with the premodern world and finally put ordinary people in charge of their nation’s destiny. That’s the legacy of the French Revolution.

Key Findings: Microsoft’s new report does not mention its fossil gas plant megaprojects. The three upcoming fossil fuelled power stations will more than double the company’s emissions. Microsoft’s real emissions have already grown by 80% since 2020, due largely to emissions intensive infrastructure for new data centres and connections to the grid. Microsoft’s power consumption […]

They've increased the Pentagon Budget by 25% for 2027 to $1.5 trillion, largest ever, but don't cross out War.

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Given the structural constraints they face, the path to liberation for Palestinians does not run through armed struggle. Liberation will require the kind of sustained international solidarity that isolated apartheid South Africa.

Bernie Sanders wants to nationalize half the stock of major AI companies and create a sovereign wealth fund for the American people. The case for going even further is stronger than most people realize.

We spoke to political scientist Marie Gottschalk about how corporate criminals have been let off the hook as prisons have exploded and what the path to ending mass incarceration might look like.

Semiconductor workers at multinational South Korean corporation Samsung won significant contract gains after a credible strike threat this spring. Their struggle is a crucial one for the global labor movement as AI reshapes the world economy.

When Benito Mussolini was ousted in 1943, a farming family called the Cervis celebrated by serving free helpings of pasta in the village square. It’s a ritual still repeated each July, upholding the community spirit at the heart of Italian antifascism.

In EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas’s homeland of Estonia, increased military spending is putting pressure on the national budget. What makes it worse is a regressive tax system, which is putting the costs of rearmament on the lowest-income households.

The recent Ukraine Recovery Conference again saw governments and financial institutions discuss the country’s postwar reconstruction. Organized labor was absent, even as Kyiv introduces a new labor code undermining workers’ protections.

Postscript: what the Ukrainian left got right about Zelensky

Postscript: what the Ukrainian left got right about Zelensky

by Laala Bechetoula

A chronicle of a century and a half, from the fall of Algiers to its rebirth on the same date — an anthem to Algeria and to all who gave their blood so that she might live.

by Aaron Kirshenbaum & Danaka Katovich

A new documentary details how the US military is destroying all forms of life—from oceans, plants, and animals to the communities it attacks and even the people who fight its wars. Documentary is available for viewing on Apple TV, Prime Video, and Watermelon Pictures: https://earthsgreatestenemy.com/

The worst radiological accident in US history

Under Joe Biden, green capitalists primarily sold commodities to help wealthier homeowners decarbonize. Real climate action will require a much more robust public-oriented politics of public investment, public goods, and public ownership.

There’s no good reason not to change the US voting age from 18 to 16. Expanding the franchise isn’t just good for democracy — it offers the Left a significant opportunity to build its forces.