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  • People inspect the wreckage of a house in Kuhestak, Iran, hit by a U.S. missile during a family wedding on Sept. 1.

    U.S. bombs a wedding in Iran

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on September 3, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    The generals can change deployments, move ships and planes, and order another round of bombing. None of that solves Washington’s basic problem: the Iranian people have not surrendered.

  • Visitors gather at Moonshot AI’s Kimi exhibit during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. China’s open-weight models are challenging the monopoly profits built into Wall Street’s AI boom.

    China’s open-weight AI exposes the fiction behind Wall Street’s boom

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on July 27, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    In July, free software from China set off the worst week for U.S. chip stocks in over a year and briefly cost Nvidia its place as the world’s most valuable company. Wall Street panicked because Chinese firms had matched the leading U.S. artificial intelligence systems. But the selloff exposed something deeper. The AI boom rests […]

  • Workers reviewing digital content and data. In China, recent AI-related labor rulings held that employers cannot shift the cost of automation onto workers through firings or forced pay cuts.

    China’s labor law says a job is a right—even in the age of AI

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on May 1, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    No equivalent legal protection exists in the United States.

  • Satellite image from Planet Labs shows damage to the AN/FPS-132 phased array early warning radar at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar following Iranian strikes. The $1.1 billion system was hit by a ballistic missile. Image: Planet Labs

    Iran destroys the radar systems at the heart of U.S. missile defense

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on March 8, 2026 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    Washington launched Operation Epic Fury on Feb. 28, killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and several top commanders in a joint U.S.-Israeli strike. What followed was not the collapse and capitulation that U.S. war planners had assumed.

  • Jose Maria Sison

    Jose Maria Sison, founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on December 16, 2022 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    The greatest Filipino of the past century bereaved us peacefully.

  • On March 27, the Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La Lucha newspaper hosted a webinar called “Stop the War Lies: Voices from Donbass.”

    Voices from Donbass speak to U.S. anti-war movement

    Originally published: Struggle-La Lucha on April 7, 2022 (more by Struggle-La Lucha)  |

    On March 27, the Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La Lucha newspaper hosted a webinar called “Stop the War Lies: Voices from Donbass.” This was a unique opportunity for the U.S. anti-war movement to hear directly from people in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), whose voices are silenced by the Western mass media’s pro-Ukraine war propaganda.

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  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Struggle-La Lucha

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

  • Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
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    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

  • The Public Banking Institute
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    In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) and Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the Public Banking Institute (PBI) about their past and ongoing advocacy for public banking. Founded in 2011 by author Ellen Brown and a core collective of advocates, PBI aims to break the monopoly of Wall Street’s private banking system by […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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