Artificial intelligence is now on its third thirty-year cycle of discovery, hype, disappointment and decline into an “AI winter” when it becomes unfashionable and unfinanceable. We are currently in ...

Donald Trump may or may not be a fascist, but no serious observer doubts that his regime will be far-right, authoritarian and a mortal threat to democracy and workers’ rights. The argument about ...

The political world changed on 5 November with the victory of the Trumpist authoritarians in the USA. Trump’s victory has set the alarm bells about far-right advance ringing louder and shriller, and ...

Over Biden’s term, Trump has gained a relatively small number, but the Democrats have lost nearly ten million votes. Trump won thanks to the Democrats.

Between 30 October and 2 November, a delegation of education workers visited Lviv, in Western Ukraine. Our visit was organised by the National Education Union’s Ukraine Solidarity Network. We visited ...

Germany’s SDP-FDP-Greens coalition government, formed after the 2021 federal elections, collapsed on 6 Nov, when Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked Finance Minister Christian Lindner. The SDP is, roughly, ...

On Guard is a rank-and-file socialist bulletin by and for workers of all grades and companies at Sheffield, published by Workers' Liberty. Got a story for the bulletin? Email ...

Iranian comrades demand the closure of the Iranian embassy in London. Belarusian friends demand their country is kicked out of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), a forum of governments and ...

Part 1: Under the Banner of Marxism, by Max Shachtman. This, the main text in this book, Under the Banner of Marxism, was a reply by Max Shachtman in 1949 to a document by a hitherto prominent comrade ...

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When Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848, socialism had only begun to emerge as an ideology. The meaning of socialism, communism and related ideas were heavily contested and unfinished.