With its vast logistics empire deploying robotics, surveillance, and AI to block worker power at every turn, Amazon now sits atop the throne of American capitalism. Organizing it will define the future of the labor movement.

With the US labor movement at historically low levels of unionization, bold strategies are necessary to protect the working class. (Elijah Nouvelage / Bloomberg…

Both the White House and Israel wanted swift regime change in Iran. Instead they’ve triggered a spiraling conflict with no plausible endgame.

Iran was never on the brink of starting a war. Now Washington and Tel Aviv have manufactured a crisis they can’t control. (Majid Saeedi / Getty Images)

The US-Israeli war against Iran, launched without any coherently stated goals or popular…

Under capitalism, technological “progress” like AI systematically deskills workers, deepens managerial control, and turns the labor process into a site of conflict rather than liberation. This is by design.

Every change in technology also brings about and requires a change in workplace relations. (Florian Wiegand / Getty Images)

Why does every new technology seem to make work harder…

Artificial intelligence is unlikely to produce permanent mass unemployment, Vivek Chibber argues. But without class struggle from below and state action, automation will deepen inequality and leave workers to bear its costs.

Whether AI is truly a revolutionary break from the past or just capital's latest technological tool, the answer is the same: challenge capitalists to harness the…

Iranians have been trying to complete their democratic revolution for over a century. Every time the US gets involved, it sets that project back by decades.

Most of the Iranian population is living very precariously — and the lack of political freedoms has eroded all state legitimacy.(Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The Trump administration has ramped up its bellicose…

In Minneapolis, years of robust labor and community organizing set the stage for the fierce pushback against federal immigration agents’ aggressive invasion. Their experience may soon be relevant to cities elsewhere in the US facing incursions from ICE.

The mass protests against ICE brutality that we’ve seen in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere. They were the product of years of…