(2025-02-11). China's DeepSeek AI reveals advantages of socialism. workers.org 
The Chinese company DeepSeek released its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to the U.S. market on Jan. 20. By the following week, it was the most downloaded app on the iOS App Store, surpassing Open AI's ChatGPT. Comparison of research leadership growth by country over twenty-year period. ASPI Critical Technology Tracker . . . |
Hugo East (2025-02-11). China's DeepSeek AI reveals advantages of socialism. workers.org The Chinese company DeepSeek released its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to the U.S. market on Jan. 20. By the following week, it was the most downloaded app on the iOS App Store, surpassing Open AI's ChatGPT. Comparison of research leadership growth by country over twenty-year period. ASPI Critical Technology Tracker . . . |
(2025-02-11). Far-Right and Anti-Government Groups Gain a Foot Hold In New York City Suburbs. counterpunch.org 
In the shadow of New York City, the biggest and one of the bluesiest cities in America, Nassau and Suffolk Counties have seen a growth of far-right /anti-government groups. These groups designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-government include a Nassau County chapter of the Proud Boys, Loud Majority (active in both Suffolk and Nassau Counties), Tactical Civics Mutual Assistance Group (Nassau County), and Moms for Liberty. From truck parades donning Trump flags while promoting conspiracies of immigrants voting illegally to so-called concerned mothers at school board meetings trying to ban any materi…
(2025-02-10). To stop fascism and war, young people must fight for socialism! wsws.org The IYSSE is the only political tendency that advances a genuine socialist perspective based on the lessons of history and the interests of the working class.
Matt Willgress, Morning Star. (2025-02-10). Socialism Or Barbarism: A Statement Of Fact. popularresistance.org Engels once said that capitalist society "stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism." | Commenting on these remarks during World War I, the great socialist Rosa Luxemburg said: "What does 'regression into barbarism' mean to our lofty European civilisation? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means. This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihil…
WSWS (2025-02-10). To stop fascism and war, young people must fight for socialism! wsws.org The IYSSE is the only political tendency that advances a genuine socialist perspective based on the lessons of history and the interests of the working class.
(2025-02-10). USAID "Marxists"? Once again Elon Musk Displays His Invincible Ignorance. transcend.org King Donald and Prince Elon (or do I have their titles reversed?) have begun to treat the thousands working in foreign aid with a cruel contempt that reflects their true feelings about all workers other than those wearing MAGA hats.
(2025-02-10). Marxist IQ: A defense of Black history. cpusa.org 
1. Many people in the U.S. today still imagine that the fight against slavery in the U.S. was mainly waged by white abolitionists in the North. However, historians like W.E.B. Du Bois, Howard Zinn, and others have shown that | a. Black leaders, newspapers, and organizations played an enormous role in the leadership and grassroots organizing of the abolitionist movement. | b. the enslaved population of the South turned the tide of the Civil War by carrying out a general strike against the Confederacy, reducing or even stopping their work and escaping Southern plantations — many times for Union Army barrac…
newleftreview (2025-02-10). Ernesto Teuma: A New Left in Cuba. newleftreview.org Amid a worsening economic and climatic situation, cultural opening in Cuba has seen a flourishing blogosphere. Interview with an editor of La Tizza, a collectively run digital magazine that aims to revive the free-thinking Marxism of the Pensamiento Crítico tradition.
(2025-02-10). The American Inquisition Cometh. counterpunch.org 
Don Trump, current temporary occupant of the elective office of President of the United States, has issued an Executive Order to ferret out "antichristianity" from the federal government. Now cynics might perceive an odd karmic resonance from the "communist witch hunts" of Senator Joe McCarthy though the grotesque, twisted soul of Roy Cohn to his
(2025-02-10). How the Chinese beat Trump and OpenAI. thecommunists.org This article is reproduced from Moon of Alabama, with thanks. Since the article was published, some developments of note have taken place. The first was the wiping out a huge part of the valuation of US chip monopoly Nvidia, which lost $600bn in a single day and nearly $1tn in a week following the news …
Kary Love (2025-02-10). The American Inquisition Cometh. counterpunch.org Don Trump, current temporary occupant of the elective office of President of the United States, has issued an Executive Order to ferret out "antichristianity" from the federal government. Now cynics might perceive an odd karmic resonance from the "communist witch hunts" of Senator Joe McCarthy though the grotesque, twisted soul of Roy Cohn to his
Alan Austin (2025-02-10). Albo and Dr Jim steadily reduce poverty and homelessness — at last. independentaustralia.net 
Since Marx and Lenin, the world market that they studied during their lifetimes has grown and changed immeasurably. In tandem with the establishment of the world market, Marx writes that "the bourgeoisie developed, increased its capital, and pushed into the background every class handed down from the Middle Ages" and "in place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal interdependence of nations." | This interdependence that Marx describes, though perhaps shocking at the time, was a mere nascent form of its existence today. This is no better…
The Communist Party USA unequivocally condemns the illegal, inhumane, and monstrous proposal by President Trump to "clear out" the population of the Gaza Strip. | Trump's suggestion that the Palestinian population should be removed from Gaza and "absorbed" by Egypt and Jordan is a blatant call for population transfer. The United States, Israel, Jordan, and Egypt are all signatories to the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), both of which categorically declare forced population transfers illegal. Additionally, the U.S., Jordan, and Egypt are signatories…
Tonight at the Yara cinema, a tribute will be paid to the Cuban Tres (a countryside kind of guitar with three strings), with the presence of an exceptional player of the instrument: Pancho Amat, who was honoured at the 20th International Jazz Colloquium "Leonardo Acosta in Memoriam" on the occasion of his 75th birthday. | Manolito Simonet and his Trabuco, Celso and his Changàºí de Yateras, Yarima Blanco, Isaac Mena, Juan Antonio de la Cruz Antomarchi (Cotó), Kay Lions, Maikel Elizarde, Abel Acosta and Rodrigo Sosa, among others, will be performing. | Meanwhile, the Karl Marx Theatre will host the Cuba Vive…
The author of this Jan. 16, 2025, article reacting to President Donald Trump's threats is a Panamanian anti-imperialist and Marxist analyst. Translation: John Catalinotto. Since December 21, 2024, in the framework of the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the last U.S. military invasion against Panama (Dec. 20, 1989), U.S. . . . |