Mira Nair, Zohran Mamdani, Rama Duwaji and Mahmood Mamdani celebrate on stage during an election night gathering at The Greats of Craft LIC on June 24, 2025. By Abbas Fahdel A new generation, a deep inheritance The new mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, embodies a new political generation — but also a singular intellectual legacy: that of his parents. His mother, Mira Nair, is … Continue reading Zohran Mamdani: From postcolonial legacy to the heart of empire

The following article by Gary Wilson from The Struggle/La Lucha is an excellent repudiation of the notion being revived around the imperialist world – from the US, to Europe, the UK and Australiasia – that military spending – often dubbed “military Keynesianism” – is “good for the economy”. Mike Treen GPJA Editor President Donald Trump, the brooding figure on the left end, with Vice President … Continue reading Trump’s huge military budget will accelerate U.S. economic decay

Liberation day Source: Michael Roberts Blog It’s not April Fools day (1 April). But it might as well be as later today US President Donald Trump announces another barrage of tariffs on imports into the US in what Trump calls ‘Liberation Day’ and what America’s voice of big business and finance, the Wall Street journal, has called “the dumbest trade war in history.” In this … Continue reading The dangers behind Trump’s Trade War

By Gary Wilson Struggle/La Lucha China’s DeepSeek AI has just dropped a bombshell in the tech world. While U.S. tech giants like OpenAI have been building expensive, closed-source AI models, DeepSeek has released an open-source AI that matches or outperforms U.S. models, costs 97% less to operate, and can be downloaded and used freely by anyone. While the U.S. tried to monopolize AI with economic … Continue reading Open source vs. closed doors: How China’s DeepSeek beat U.S. AI monopolies

Reprinted from Covert Action Magazine Andrew Fowler’s book Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco That Sank Australia’s Sovereignty (Melbourne University Press, 2024) was not written by a member of the peace movement. That is both a strength and a weakness. A strength, because Andrew Fowler is an award-winning investigative journalist, who has worked in mainstream Australian current affairs TV. So, it can’t be dismissed as “anti-American, anti-military” … Continue reading Nuked: The Submarine Fiasco that Sank Australia’s Sovereignty by Murray Horton