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 ...

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 ...

Picture: Marcin Mazur From Standing Together On Monday 28 October, the Israeli parliament passed a set of laws that will ban Unrwa [the aid agency responsible for supporting Palestinian refugees] from ...

The protests against the high cost of living [in Martinique, a Caribbean island which is an “overseas department” of France], which began in early September, are continuing throughout the island, ...

On 29 October, the University of London (UoL) was granted an injunction against Abel Harvie-Clark, Tara Mann, Haya Adam, and Persons Unknown in the SOAS Liberated Zone for Gaza and the Democratise ...

Zack Muddle (Solidarity 723) asks: why not limit assent to US socialists voting Harris-Walz on 5 November to the “battleground” states and advise abstention in the safe-Democrat (or safe-Republican) ...

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, ...

Oddly, hard right-winger Kemi Badenoch seems to have won the Tory leadership contest as the “softer” and more “uniting” candidate than centrist-turned-migrant-basher Robert Jenrick. Badenoch says that ...