Category: Labor / Economics

There is much to be explored behind the much touted “intelligence” of these machines. Behind the illusion of “intelligence” are thousands of human laborers: labeling data, moderating toxic content, or training models for cents per hour. Workers in Kenya, for example, were paid less than $2/hour to label graphic and traumatic content for OpenAI’s safety…

Roberts explains the recent raft of tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump on April 2, which Trump dubbed “Liberation Day” but was described by the Wall Street Journal as “the dumbest trade war in history”. Roberts outlines how they fit into Trump’s broader project to reassert US global hegemony, and what a left response…

Throughout history, trade restrictions have reshaped economies for good or for ill. As Trump increases tariffs across industries, it is clear that this move will not revitalize the economy as he claims. Rather, it stands to create further hardship for Black and working class people.

When teachers’ union president Ray Cummings told the superintendent that her plan could put students in danger, he brought together problems of excluding workers from critical decisions and schemes to use climate disasters to privatize public schools.

This shows growing solidarity among European dockworkers to stop weapons destined to be used on Palestinians.

Finance now makes up about 20 – 25% of the global economy and sits at the center of the economic model that calls for eternal growth on a planet with finite resources, and finite ways to deal with the waste that results from the use of those resources. Finance must change if we are to…

French dock workers refuse to load a military shipment to Israel.

AI is a computer program humans write to perform specific tasks. To be more precise, instead of saying “written by humans,” it would be more accurate to say “commissioned by capitalist employers.” Ultimately, AI is a software program that operates on computers. This program can help you understand human language and expression, gather extensive information…

This article argues that there has not been a labor movement in the US since 1949, but only a trade union movement; the latter only focuses on the betterment of union members instead of workers in general. Yet unions are important for all Drawing off a forthcoming book based on years of on-the-ground experience combined…

LEPAIO claims that efforts to dissolve the Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD) caucus within the United Auto Workers (UAW) union is a mistake; that it’s better to honestly debate issues rather than dissolve the caucus and try to sweep issues under the rug.