A World of Instability Amid Growing Imperialist Rivalries
Note: This text was completed on December 15, 2025 by Speak Out Socialists as background information for a discussion about the current international situation. It has not been updated to include the many important national and international events that have unfolded since its completion. download as .pdf Introduction Increasing international instability continues to define the […]
Amazon Plans to Automate Away Jobs
The New York Times reports that Amazon is planning to eventually replace 600,000 jobs with robots by 2033. Amazon’s robotics team has a goal of being able to automate 75% of its operations. If Amazon is successful in automating away blue-collar jobs, other companies such as Walmart and UPS are likely to do the same […]
Artificial Intelligence Monitoring Workers at AHS
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. At Highland this month, workers are all finishing up their annual mandated online competencies. There was one new slide this year, detailing the use of artificial intelligence in worker surveillance at Alameda Health System. According to […]
Artificial Intelligence — Real Capitalism — NPA-R • Dossier 37
Dossier No. 37, June 26, 2025; this “dossier” is a collection of short articles by the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France (translated from French)
The End of Work… or the End of Profit?
Dossier No. 37, June 26, 2025; this “dossier” is a collection of short articles by the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France (translated from French) Some capitalists dream of replacing humans with AI: no more demands, no more strikes! Mechanization is as old as capitalism itself, that is, the investment of capital in production proper. […]
High-tech genocide
Dossier No. 37, June 26, 2025; this “dossier” is a collection of short articles by the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France (translated from French) It would have been surprising if the armies, which have led the research on AI, had not used it! The Israeli army has already implemented it (as others undoubtedly have) […]
An Artifice Produced by Human Intelligence and Labor
Dossier No. 37, June 26, 2025; this “dossier” is a collection of short articles by the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France (translated from French) Although capitalists are trying to automate it, training artificial intelligence still requires enormous amounts of human labor, subject to particularly precarious conditions. Take the example of a self-driving car, which […]
AI: A Very Material Technology
Dossier No. 37, June 26, 2025; this “dossier” is a collection of short articles by the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France (translated from French) A very material technology The existence of AI relies on specific technologies, but also on access to extremely sophisticated computer components. Dominance in the field of AI therefore also depends […]
Is Capitalist AI Threatening Our Jobs?
Dossier No. 37, June 26, 2025; this “dossier” is a collection of short articles by the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France (translated from French) Capitalists around the world are now betting on artificial intelligence (AI) in the hope of significant gains in labor productivity. The goal remains to replace some human labor with machines […]
Speak Out Now General Newsletter: March 31, 2024
Download .pdf leaflet Baltimore Bridge Disaster Didn’t Have to Happen At 1:28 a.m. on March 26, a massive cargo ship, known as the Dali, collided with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. In seconds most of the structure collapsed, killing six construction workers who were performing pothole repairs on the bridge. Before its collapse, the Key Bridge […]