2. AI and an Assessment of the Digital Economic Revolution Report to the National Council of the League · What is AI? · AI, US Power and the Compute Axis · Labor-Replacing Technology and the Gig Economy · Data Centers – The most environmentally destructive and extractive technology ever · How can Revolutionaries approach the question of “AI” today? · A Key example: Assessing the Meaning and Potential of Universal Basic Income · “The advent of AI (Artificial Intelligence) represents the crossing of a nodal line, a new kind of robotics that is best described as machines that think autonomously. It is automation, without human involvement, on a new level... The advent of AI and its corollary, virtual digital money, has tremendous implications for the revolutionary process and the future of humanity. The precipitous decline of value and the advance and domination of speculative capital demonstrates the absolute incompatibility of AI in the hands of private property and the ruling class.” (LRNA Political Resolution, 2022.) Now, 4 years later, it is possible to describe this nodal line in more detail. What is AI? “Ai” is a form of digital technology that attempts to compile information and learn based on Large Language Models (LLMs). These are digital mathematical models trained to predict patterns in vast datasets of human-generated text, images and data, as scientists attempt to model human brain networks. Telecommunications and the internet are other forms of digital communications. But “Ai” is not a single thing. It does not reflect a common unified entity. It is an umbrella term for a sprawling array of loosely related technologies and platforms. Ai as Chat GPT has little in common with, say, software that banks use to evaluate loan applicants. Things that are being automated under this rubric include classification, decision-making (e.g., which resume to accept), transcription/translation and generating text and images. “The advent of AI (artificial intelligence) represents a new kind of robotics that is automation without human involvement on an even higher level. The blood- sucking private property system is replacing us with new technologies. (League Program, 2022.) “Artificial Intelligence” is really a marketing term. Describing “Ai” as “machines that think autonomously” feeds into the idea that human intelligence is actually being replaced by tools humankind itself is creating. Using the term “pattern recognition technology” might make more sense. As we say in the League Program, it is the “blood- sucking private property system” that is “replacing us with new technologies,” not the technologies themselves. Treating “Ai” as some sentient “intelligence” becomes a form of commodity fetishism, and the worst forms of it are propaganda carried out by the corporations allowed to develop and promote these technologies in our current economic system. But the scope of the application of “Ai” to not only the US economy, but globally today, is huge. The US and Europe are embedding Ai in every institution, partially as a response to the Pandemic which began in 2020. They intend to extend this rapidly to Africa and Latin America. Capitalism is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on this technology, even though recent research shows that Ai does not really produce much private profit so far. China is also now outsourcing Ai to users across the world in a different system. The US no longer has a monopoly on digital technology and relatively independent productive capacity has spread to most countries around the world. US capitalism does not have a monopoly on Ai. It is already out-sourced to the world. “Ai”, paired with robotics, is automating significant portions of the $110 trillion real-world global economy. It is likewise deeply penetrating the $1.6 quadrillion global financial speculative economy that has separated from the global productive economy. Ai, US Power and the Compute Axis Since World War II, the US has restructured the global economy twice to assert US hegemony in guaranteeing corporate profits. It is now attempting to re-organize it based on implementing Ai. The first time was imposing the “dollar economy” right after the war. The second was re-organizing around the petro-dollar in the mid-1970s, where Saudi Arabia agreed to sell all petroleum in dollars. Now the dream is to re-organize US economic hegemony based on “the compute dollar”. Since the Trump regime came into power a second time, a new axis of power has emerged – the Compute Axis – that runs from Silicon Valley to the Trump MAGA Project 2025 forces, all this fueled by the huge Gulf Arab states sovereign wealth funds of some 5 trillion dollars. At the same time, from Gaza genocide to the destruction of Iran and Lebanon, the first global Ai war has been launched. This is war directly aimed against civilians and not simply militaries. It also directly threatens the investment dreams mentioned above. The US recognizes Ai as a global “force multiplier” that will increase its geopolitical power. The pace of Ai development is staggering, and the rollout is reckless, driven by powerful economic and geopolitical incentives. Massive economic and geopolitical pressures are driving the rapid deployment of Ai into high-stakes areas — our workplaces, financial systems, classrooms, governments, health care systems, public education and the military. Ai in the US is produced and controlled as private property by the mega platforms, the Magnificent 7, that drive stock market profitability. Their CEOS featured prominently in the first row of Trump’s Inauguration. These platforms hide their research and keep much information from the public; they glory in being unaccountable. They are Google (YouTube), Meta (Facebook, Instagram), Amazon (Washington Post), Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, and Tesla, plus OpenAI. They are closely allied with Palantir (data analysis), Intel (CPUs and semiconductor chips), Anduril (military software) and Disney (media), and strongly tied to Israel for surveillance tech. All these companies are tightly connected to the Pentagon and the military budget. Last June, executives Shyam Sankar (Palantir), Andrew Bosworth (Meta), Kevin Well (OpenAI), and Bob McGrew (Thinking Machines Lab, previously OpenAI) were sworn into the U.S. Army as lieutenant colonels. Michael Obadal, executive of the AI-war manufacturing company Anduril, who is now the Under Secretary of the U.S. Army, held hundreds of thousands of dollars in Anduril stock which he refused to sell until forced to, despite the obvious conflicts of interest. Peter Thiel, co-founder of Palantir, is himself a major funder of Anduril. Labor-Replacing Technology and the Gig Economy “The invention of the microchip and electronic production began a process that is step by step replacing the need for human labor, a process that has been sped up by the pandemic. Digital technology, such as computers, apps, artificial intelligence, robotics, and other forms of automation, are replacing and restructuring work, slowly ending capitalism, an economic system that depends on the buying and selling of labor power. Production without labor demands that the goods produced be distributed without money. The method of production is at war with the method of distribution.” (LRNA Political Resolution, 2022) Today fascism and Ai are rising together. Ai is being used to augment the police and the military to discipline labor. It is not a coincidence that fascism and Ai are growing parallel with each other. “AI” is changing how the buying the selling of labor-power as a commodity is taking place in the “Gig Economy.” Ai is being directly applied as we speak to organize a global Gig Economy. The global labor market was still structured in 2000 into regular jobs as being the best way to organize labor. This world is rapidly passing away. Under the current economic conditions, the exponential development of what we have called “laborless technology” also means the exponential development of the section of the working class displaced by the new technology. Most AI companies are not yet profitable and admit that they don't know when or if they will be. However, the infrastructure and platform companies monetizing AI (e.g. Nvidia and Meta) are generating historic profits. Bernie Sanders released a Senate report that states that by 2030 Ai will replace 90% of the counter jobs in America. Amazon alone intends to replace 600,000 jobs with Ai. The pace of change will be unprecedented. In Tech, Ai already codes millions of lines of code a day, far more than humans. Jobs that used to provide regular work now are organized by Ai into “tasks”, which are farmed out to individual highest bidders. It’s not about AI replacing an entire job, but about chipping away at parts of the job to make it more efficient; reducing the number of people needed in that role. Writing in Medium about an important new MIT study, Project Iceberg, Mark A. Herschberg says “We already know tech workers are having a tough time. More importantly, they write ‘Analysis shows that visible AI adoption concentrated in computing and technology (2.2% of wage value, approximately $211 billion) represents only the tip of the iceberg. Technical capability extends far below the surface through cognitive automation spanning administrative, financial, and professional services (11.7%, approximately $1.2 trillion).’ In other words, those tech workers are the tip of the iceberg. These other professional services are what’s hidden under the water and represents a much bigger impact to the labor market.” The massive data centers that are projected to be built on the Arabian Peninsula will connect 4 billion people – one half of humanity – within 100 microseconds of each other. Soon digital Gig workers will bid and compete with India’s 1.66 million data professionals who already do the digital grunt work of coding, clerking and call centering. All for wages that make the official US minimum wage of a pitiful $7.25 an hour look like treasure! On his Substack site The Tech Bubble, Edward Ongweso Jr. writes “Unveiled at the September 2023 G20 Summit in New Delhi, the India-Middle East-Europe Corridor (IMEC) had been initially conceived as the West’s response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative—years too late, but a response of some kind. Under the Trump administration, it has been aggressively repurposed away from a trade corridor to a digital corridor. Gulf-based energy and compute centers (where models are trained and hosted) will be linked with India’s vast pool of digital labor (where models are refined, debugged, and integrated into services). New high-capacity fiber optic cables will cement India as the AI economy’s “back office,” a role it has already had in other sectors. As (Guy) Laron puts it, “India long been seen as the world’s back office: a land of coders, clerks, and call centers” but today it is also home to 1,600 Global Capability Centers (GCCs) which employ 1.66 million professionals involved in “software engineering, data analytics, AI research, cybersecurity, and even core product development.” These GCCs are key to the West’s “digital ambitions at scale and at lower cost” and are a rapidly growing part of India’s services exports (well over a third).” The impact of Ai also tends to replace wage labor with unpaid labor and/or micro-labor. Again, it is not the “micro-chip” or its invention that is rapidly displacing workers, it is the private owners of the micro-chips, “Ai” and other aspects of new forms of automation within a global market system dominated by private property relations. The need to train Ai programs requires vast amounts of human labor. Every day in school, children click onto Ai programs, based on Chromebooks and other devices that were “generously” provided by Google, Meta etc. Every click is harvested and used to refine the programs to eliminate flaws and make them even more responsive. When ChatGPT scraped the internet, it included massive amounts of horrible pornography in every form conceivable. They recognized that this data needed to be “cleaned”, so they outsourced the tasks for bids to Kenya, Pakistan and Venezuela among others. These workers, often paid less than $2 an hour, commonly last about 5 months before they psychologically collapse as a result of what they are forced to see, analyze and eliminate. Democracy Now 1/1/2026 Billions of people every day click their way through platforms and social media. This form of human work is not paid at all. The "myth" of AI obscures the fact that human labor-power is still the source of value, but it is now being commodified into data or self-services through "Terms of Service" agreements rather than wage contracts. Digital and data-intensive technologies have increased the productivity of wage labor, but more importantly, they have made it easier for the ruling class to utilize wageless labor across all the major industries. The real revolution is not in the "intelligence" of the machine, but in the qualitative shift to wageless work. The digital revolution is a qualitative transformation of the social relations of production. The digital revolution, through wageless work, is the driving force behind the economic, social, and now political revolution we are in because the compensation structure within the new social relations of production is incompatible with the capitalist superstructure, and creates an antagonism. Therefore, we are seeing tremendous political instability and a move towards authoritarianism by most segments of the ruling class. The ruling class is utilizing every strategy it can to maintain power: white supremacy and further segmenting the working class based on race, sex, gender, citizenship, language, income, housing status, disability status, etc. This is part of a passive revolution carried out by the ruling class to protect private property and class society, even as the old capitalist wage relation is being replaced. The ruling class protects private property and class society in general, not capitalism in general. They are testing out many options to see which strategies gain the most support from the working class. While digital technology could be configured to eliminate human poverty, this cannot happen within the current social relations of private property. Data Centers – The most environmentally destructive and extractive technology ever “The rulers are, step by step, taking away every right and material benefit from a growing segment of the population, from democratic rights and education to the air we breathe, water we must drink, housing, and food we need to survive.” (Political Resolution, 2022) Everything in this report so far shows that capitalism deliberately twists and distorts the real potential of Ai, as they engineer and configure it to maximize private profit against both Humanity and Nature. Under the conditions of the global market, the exponential growth of “AI” is leading to the exponential destruction of the earth. Data centers are where cloud computing lives. There are more than 5,400 data centers in the United States, accounting for nearly 50 percent of the world’s estimated 11,000–12,000 data centers. As more companies invest in artificial intelligence (AI) and incorporate it into their business models, there has been a push across the country to build even more and larger data centers for AI infrastructure. Overall global data center investment was $250 billion in 2023 and is projected to quadruple to $1 trillion by 2027. “Data centers use massive amounts of water, rare earths, copper, electricity, chips and cement. They are the justification for rampant capitalism which is doubling down on extraction and the destruction of Nature around the world. In today’s financialized/speculative economy, extraction is a positive in and of itself; it is investable activity. A medium-sized data center can consume up to roughly 110 million gallons of water per year for cooling purposes, equivalent to the annual water usage of approximately 1,000 households. Together, the nation’s 5,426 data centers consume billions of gallons of water annually. One report estimated that U.S. data centers consume 449 million gallons of water per day and 163.7 billion gallons annually (as of 2021). A 2016 report found that fewer than one-third of data center operators track water consumption. Water consumption is expected to continue increasing as data centers grow in number, size, and complexity.” Microsoft's $500 million hyperscale data center built in Chicago in 2009 used 2,177 metric tons of copper, which is equivalent to about 4.8 million pounds. Until recently the largest data centers were 150-megawatt, i.e., consuming as much electricity as 122, 000 American households. Now 1000 - 2000 megawatts are planned, i.e., one would use the same electricity per year as 3 ½ San Franciscos. By 2030, under current plans, data centers globally will use more energy than India, the current #3 global electricity user. This massive demand for electricity drives up domestic energy bills, and human consumers will pay for most of it. There’s currently a bill making its way through the US Senate that would allow AI data center companies to bypass federal electricity regulations by building their own energy infrastructure. Proposed by GOP Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, the DATA Act of 2026 essentially releases the Broligarchs from the Federal Power Act and allows them to craft their own energy policies. The Trump Regime released Pax Silica in December 2025, its plan in for seizing the rare earths of the globe, as well as all critical extractive resources. In it, the Government recognizes that the US cannot sustain this leap in data centers. Therefore it plans to assist the Arabian Peninsula in building even larger data centers. The Trump Regime recognizes the US electrical grid cannot handle such a massive increase in electricity. Nevertheless, there are quick profits to be made, so these are prioritized over community safety and environmental protection. Virginia currently houses the most data centers in the United States, specifically in Ashburn, Virginia’s “Data Center Valley.” Texas is becoming a key state for data centers, and cities in Arizona, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, California, Michigan and Oregon are other strong contenders for data center hubs because of lower costs and high connectivity to other places (like California’s connectivity to Asia with undersea cables through the Pacific, or Chicago’s technological connection to both the East and West coasts). A recent study published by MediaJustice shows that communities in the South are disproportionately affected by rising electricity prices, with rural farming communities and communities of color impacted the most. Elon Musk’s xAI operates a massive, fast-tracked data center in Memphis, Tennessee, housing the "Colossus" supercomputer for training Grok AI models. Opened in 2024, the site, in the African-American community, uses illegal, unauthorized, high-emission gas turbines for power, raising major air quality concerns. On December 18th, the House of Representatives passed a bill backed by Microsoft, Micron, and OpenAI to fast-track data centers. The bill significantly reduces the number of environmental and financial factors that can be considered in permitting processes. It’s simple. These communities are becoming the South Carolina Marine Camp Lejeunes of a new age: the new toxic waste dumps in the belly of the beast used to power the war machine. No part of this is sustainable — not the AI speculative economy, not unending extraction, nor the war economy Ai is so closely tied to. These AI and tech companies are war profiteers. The new Cold War on China drives this. The genocide in Palestine drives this. The war on Venezuela, Latin America, and the Caribbean drives this. The war on urban and rural farming communities and communities of color in the US drives this. The global economy is the environment within which all technologies are being developed. This objective infrastructure today depends on the rampant destruction of the environment and global ecosystems. It has produced ever-increasing climate disaster as a result of forcing a rupture between humanity and Nature. The social and productive relations of private property twist, distort, mutate and fetter all technologies. These relations are fundamentally the social relations between people. Under the class relations of private property, “AI” will never produce the real abundance that humanity needs to sustain life on earth in productive ways. Although the principles of sustainable production have been well understood for some time, these principles have been systematically ignored by the need to make maximum profit. Humanity achieved the ability to produce globally the necessities of human life years ago, before Ai. This “primitive” level of abundance came at the expense of the destruction of Nature, the climate and the ecology. Not all technologies should be applied simply because they are discovered. When there is the possibility of harm from implementing a technology, conclusive evidence as to its effects must be discovered before it is used. This is the Precautionary Principle. There is much to do to heal humanity and Nature with all the surplus economic product produced globally every year. Then we can say we have produced abundance that is in balance with Nature. How can Revolutionaries approach the question of “Ai” today? “The bourgeois mode of production is the last antagonistic form of the social process of production – antagonistic not in the sense of individual antagonism but of an antagonism that emanates from the individuals' social conditions of existence – but the productive forces developing within bourgeois society create also the material conditions for a solution of this antagonism. The prehistory of human society accordingly closes with this social formation.” Marx, A Critique of Political Economy. We are in the earliest phases of this technology. Historically, it takes about 20-30 years for humanity to figure out how to properly design, configure, engineer, develop and apply each new transformative technology. The process is objective and is still emerging, rising and developing. New generations will see and know much more than we can today. For revolutionaries today, there are really two issues here. The first is how human society can use Ai to improve science, human life and heal the planet. Ai has the potential to aid in using the totality of human knowledge to guarantee sustainable abundance. The second is how can revolutionaries use Ai to engage in the political struggle to overthrow private property. Throughout the digital revolution, it has been increasingly clear that this level of human technology BEGS to be shared freely and to be de-commodified. This is key to its revolutionary nature, and is a powerful tool of politicization in struggle. A Key example: Assessing the Meaning and Potential of Universal Basic Income As the pain of permanent Tech/Ai layoffs grows, and as jobs are subdivided into “tasks” for formerly secure engineers to bid on, acronyms like UBI (Universal Basic Income) are getting into the news daily. Sixteen states and Washington DC currently have pilot programs to provide various forms of Universal Basic Income or Guaranteed Annual Income to folks in the working class, in addition to various tax-related programs like Negative Income Tax and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Some require documented work, some are unconditional. Famous people as disparate as Thomas Paine, Mark Zuckerberg, Milton Friedman, and now Sam Altman promote it with the most flowery, humanistic, caring language. There are two possibilities here; UBI will either be a tool to control unruly workers increasingly unable to survive in today’s economy, or it will point the way toward a society in which all humans are fully able to survive and flourish, to develop to their fullest potential, and to contribute that potential to the global community. Every version of UBI proposed by the ruling class is structured so that a system which has never made effective use of the collective energies and varied brilliance of the human species except to enrich a tiny minority, can make even less use of those qualities. It’s like permanent, global unemployment insurance, designed to make poverty acceptable. At its best, UBI can make it possible for people to work for unsustainably low wages, supplemented by their UBI. Further, even this is not true; despite their public statements, “They are racing to automate their own work forces to stay ahead of the competition, with little regard for the impact on workers.” (NYT 1/25/2019, “The Hidden Automation Agenda of the Davos Elite”). They are driven to it by their own law; reduce labor cost - it’s their primary variable expense. The myth is that the ruling class cares about, and wants to provide for the working class; that humanity and the planet can survive continued extractive ravaging by the market/commodity system; that the ruling class actually is capable of continuing to lead society. In the United States, no matter how we dress up UBI, this is what it means in any system of private property is a mechanism to control – not to unleash – the energies and creativity of the working class. Eager proponents of UBI among the super-rich will not likely agree to fund a truly good and sustainable UBI program that fulfills humanity’s needs; their entire aim is to bribe our class with a little bit, to avoid losing it all. The key for them is property rights; the right to control their property, to buy and sell it, and to control prices, including the price they pay for our labor power. That is what the class struggle to implement Universal Basic Income will revolve around. Briefly, the current rapid deployment of Ai/LLM technologies accelerates the qualitative transformation, thus providing unique opportunities for education, agitation, and organizing. Engaging in UBI debates, we can unpack and expose UBI proposals as a pernicious means of control of our class by the ruling class masquerading as humanitarian benefactors - and we can advance “our" UBI – actually a communist economy, “everything for everyone” - as a program to ensure that the basic human needs of people and the planet are protected and promoted. This is our opportunity to expose the ways that the institution of private property--the bone marrow of capitalism--is preserved under ruling class UBI proposals, and contrast that with a UBI by and for our class. Conclusions: “While the productivity of digital technology makes shared well-being possible for all humanity, the private property system is driving workers into destitution and often homelessness and speeds up the extraction that is destroying the earth. The rapidly accelerating extinction event we experience today has created a race between revolution and annihilation.” (League Program, 2022.) Private Property dictates development based on the immediate needs of private property and private profit. These forms are already in play. Capitalism currently configures Ai to… • Increase private profits above anything else • Force privatized Ai into everything • Augment the US war machine • Support the rise of fascism • Take over the nerve center of government and the state with DOGE & Palantir • Redesign the global economy as a Gig economy • Define the future for humanity while ignoring negative social results • Move fast and break things in order to surf the chaos and impose a new society • Develop a totally extractive economy • Devalue human beings and over-value technology • Replace human labor in as many jobs as possible • Replace knowledge workers • Write the bulk of new software • Maximize human surveillance • Seize and control all personal and public information • Seize all forms of data • Privatize the social process of knowledge creation • Make decisions about Ai in secret • Augment privatized intellectual property such as patents and software • Monetize our attention • Commodify everything • Create an addictive Ai system • Deliberately dumb people down • Keep people locked into screens and increase human isolation. Alternative Communist Configuration:  The negative social consequences are vast. But this technology can be easily designed for positive consequences. AI could be configured to: • Manage things and not people • Coordinate and develop global social economic production • Replace the “hidden hand of the market” in society and markets in general • Guarantee the equal distribution of social products to all • Eliminate human poverty completely • Heal the environment by supporting local and global efforts to repair the ecology • Support life-long learning for all • Create a system of quality health care for all • Develop a broad public system of knowledge creation that we all share • Make science a tool of the public • Augment human communication, cooperation and collaboration • Make it easy to individually and collectively develop higher order cognitive skills • Build in systems of increasing (not decreasing) returns • Empower each individual to fully develop their potential in any and every direction “Ai” and all technologies must be owned by the public together. Private property in these technologies, human society and Nature can and must be abolished! Given the potential of Ai that we only glimpse in this moment, Ai has the potential to aid in using the totality of human knowledge to guarantee sustainable abundance - “From each according to their ability; to each according to their needs.” People will determine the future, not technology. It is up to all of us as revolutionaries to guarantee the true potential of Ai.

No invasion of Cuba! Statement by the League of Revolutionaries for a New America The recent indictment of 94-year-old former Cuban president Raúl Castro by a federal grand jury in Miami rests on a ludicrous allegation that Cuba poses a security threat to the United States. Castro is accused of giving the order to shoot down two U.S. planes manned by members of CIA-backed operation called “Brothers to the Rescue” that were flying unauthorized into Cuban airspace in 1996, after ignoring Cuba’s warnings not to. The United States did not pursue this until now, when a pretext to invade the island was needed. Cuba has endured over 65 years of hostility from Washington, in addition to the blockade. The biggest blow came in January, when the U.S. military invaded Venezuela, abducted its president and seized control of the country's oil industry, cutting off Cuba's chief source of oil. Thirty-two Cubans were among those killed defending Venezuela and Cuba now faces its worst energy crisis in years. Cubans have experienced some of the harshest times since the special period in the 1990s but they continue to stand in solidarity with their revolutionary socialist government and together they have survived. U.S. EMPIRE DIES HARD U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference in February quite candidly laid out a vision that held the European and early U.S. colonial world order of centuries past as the exemplar for the United States in the 21st century. Cuba has long been a thorn in the side of that mythical world order. After the defeat of the Batista dictatorship in 1959, Cuba nationalized and took over its oil and sugar industries from wealthy Cuban families and U.S. corporations that had exploited Cuba’s working poor and sent the profits abroad. The government and people wiped out illiteracy in a single year – 1961 – and developed a world-renowned system of free, universal, community-based health care. It has successfully defended its independence from imperialist domination for 67 years. The League stands for a vision of a new society and recognizes that there needs to be a government that functions in the people’s interests. The Cuban people deserve the right to determine what that means for them, just as we do here. We must stand unequivocally against our government’s efforts that threaten their existence. Published on June 20, 2026. Rally! P.O. Box 408002 Chicago, IL 60640 rally@lrna.org. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Please include this message with any reproduction. in Spanish: ¡No a la invasión de Cuba! Declaración de la Liga de Revolucionarios para una Nueva América La reciente acusación contra el expresidente cubano Raúl Castro, de 94 años, por parte de un gran jurado federal en Miami, se basa en la absurda alegación de que Cuba representa una amenaza para la seguridad de Estados Unidos. Se acusa a Castro de haber dado la orden de derribar dos aviones estadounidenses —tripulados por miembros de la operación «Hermanos al Rescate», respaldada por la CIA. Los aviones volaban sin autorización el espacio aéreo cubano en 1996, tras haber hecho caso omiso de las advertencias de Cuba para que no lo hicieran. Estados Unidos no había tomado medidas al respecto hasta ahora, momento en que surgió la necesidad de un pretexto para invadir la isla. Cuba ha soportado más de 65 años de hostilidad por parte de Washington, además del bloqueo. El golpe más duro se produjo en enero, cuando el ejército estadounidense invadió Venezuela, secuestró a su presidente y tomó el control de la industria petrolera del país, cortando así la principal fuente de petróleo de Cuba. Treinta y dos cubanos perdieron la vida defendiendo a Venezuela, y Cuba se enfrenta ahora a su peor crisis energética en años. Los cubanos han vivido algunos de los momentos más difíciles desde el «periodo especial» de la década de 1990, pero mantienen su solidaridad con su gobierno socialista revolucionario y, juntos, han logrado sobrevivir. EL IMPERIO ESTADOUNIDENSE SE RESISTE A MORIR El discurso del secretario de Estado de EE. UU., Marco Rubio, en la Conferencia de Seguridad de Múnich celebrada en febrero, expuso con total franqueza una visión que tomaba el orden mundial colonial de siglos pasados ​​como modelo a seguir para Estados Unidos en el siglo XXI. Cuba ha sido durante mucho tiempo una espina clavada en el costado de ese mítico orden mundial. Tras la derrota de la dictadura de Batista en 1959, Cuba nacionalizó y asumió el control de sus industrias petrolera y azucarera, arrebatándoselas a familias cubanas adineradas y a corporaciones estadounidenses que habían explotado a la clase trabajadora pobre de la isla y enviado las ganancias al extranjero. El gobierno y el pueblo erradicaron el analfabetismo en un solo año —1961— y desarrollaron un sistema de salud gratuito, universal y de base comunitaria reconocido mundialmente. Durante 67 años, el país ha defendido con éxito su independencia frente a la dominación imperialista. La Liga defiende la visión de una nueva sociedad y reconoce la necesidad de un gobierno que actúe en interés del pueblo. El pueblo cubano tiene derecho a determinar qué significa esto para él, al igual que nosotros aquí. Debemos oponernos inequívocamente a las acciones de nuestro gobierno que amenazan su existencia. Publicado el June 20 de 2026. ¡Agrupémonos! CORREOS. Caja 408002 Chicago, IL 60640

Juneteenth and the Unfinished Work of Freedom League of Revolutionaries for a New America The Juneteenth holiday marks one of the greatest victories in U.S. history – the end of chattel slavery, a system in which people were treated as private property with no legal rights. On June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans in Texas learned that the Emancipation Proclamation had freed everyone held in Confederate states – a full two and a half years earlier. Juneteenth celebrates freedom won through long, deep struggle – by the resistance and work of the enslaved themselves, abolitionists of all colors, radical legislators and eventually through a bloody Civil War where approximately 750,000 U.S. soldiers died, including 40,000 Black union soldiers. Emancipation abolished roughly $4 billion in human private property – at the time, the largest concentration of private wealth in the U.S. economy. But it did not end exploitation. Private property survived, and the ruling class reorganized around new ways to exploit labor and divide workers along racial lines. The formerly enslaved received neither 40 acres nor reparations and were forced into sharecropping that trapped them in debt, alongside impoverished white workers. Meanwhile, the wealth generated by enslaved labor and stolen Indigenous land became the foundation of American capitalism and U.S. global power. Juneteenth challenges us to examine today's remaining barriers to freedom. Society has unprecedented wealth, yet millions lack access to basic needs, while a tiny ruling class turns to fascist methods to keep its dominance. As artificial intelligence and automation transform the economy, growing numbers of workers – across every race, gender, and industry – are being displaced, with no stake left in this system. The struggle for human dignity now requires the complete abolition of capitalist private property. Across the country, the victims of this system are in motion – defending neighbors from ICE, demanding healthcare and housing, protesting police violence and fighting for the right to vote. Many are angry, but don't yet see that a different system is possible today – one where the wealth we all create is shared to benefit all people and the planet, instead of hoarded by a few. Helping people envision that system and fight for it is the work of revolutionaries.  Juneteenth carries a spirit of hope and transformation. It teaches that oppressive systems once thought permanent can be abolished. As we celebrate emancipation, we take up that work – building toward a society where the wealth we all create is owned in common and distributed according to need. That is the unfinished work of freedom.

The Coming Social Explosion — A Political Report on the Political Party System More and more people are beginning to realize that the AI revolution is threatening to demolish our society as we know it - more completely and drastically than any earlier economic revolution – more so than the steam engine, electro-mechanics, or even simple digital production. In February, a Citrini research report on a fictional 2028 AI-caused economic collapse caused a one-day 800-point drop in the stock market - despite the best efforts of conventional economists to refute it. History teaches us that the AI cataclysm will set off equally radical breaks in continuity in our social, political, and cultural institutions as well, including the historic US two-party political system. Indeed, they are already happening. The exact immediate outcome of the AI boom is impossible to predict, but no conceivable scenario leads to a thriving or even stable economy. Just four AI giants – Google, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft – are investing $650 billion in capital spending in 2026 alone. That is almost four times larger than the largest automakers, construction equipment manufacturers, railroads, defense contractors, wireless carriers, parcel delivery companies, Exxon Mobil, Intel, General Electric, and Walmart COMBINED. As UVA economist Anton Korinek pointed out, they “aren’t making hundred-billion-dollar bets because they expect AI to have minor effects on the labor market.” AI investment is currently moving along two tracks. One is toward AGI (artificial general intelligence) that is designed to replace primarily white-collar workers in sectors like business, management, finance, math, architecture, and engineering. The other is toward so-called “physical AI”, the production of humanoid robots that embody AI in corporeal form. According to the Washington Post , physical AI is “fueling concerns about whether it could wipe out vast swaths of an already-devastated manufacturing sector”, not to mention transportation, agriculture, food service, and construction. Already, Elon Musk is beginning to pivot Tesla from production of cars to production of Optimus humanoids. Ruling class economists argue that increased AI productivity will sustain “aggregate demand” and grow the economy, but people with no income cannot sustain demand even if prices go down – which is not guaranteed to happen. As Bernie Sanders asked about the billionaires controlling AI, “Does anybody in their right mind think that these people are staying up nights worrying about how this transformation is going to benefit ordinary people?”\ In the unlikely event that productivity projections by AI investors fail to happen, the sheer size of the investments makes major economic disruption inevitable anyway. An MIT Media Lab study found that “AI pilot failure is officially the norm – 95 percent of corporate AI initiatives show zero return.” Not one of the major generative AI systems makes a profit today. Open AI forecasts a loss of $14 billion in 2026 and losses of $44 billion through 2029. Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Tesla are not projected to do any better. They are burning through funds far beyond the capacities of even these economic megaliths and are depending on massive infusions of venture capital and debt. Bloomberg estimates that it will require $3 trillion to build the data centers necessary just to serve these AI systems. Each company is gambling that it will be the one to make a fortune by being first to secure a monopoly on the AI system that will eliminate the most human labor, but none of them so far have been able to find paying customers. The outcome of these investments will be either a crash based on mass destruction of jobs, or a crash based on collapse of the financial system when projects fail and debts go unpaid. Even more clearly than with earlier versions of digital automation, AI is absolutely antagonistic to the capitalist system that depends on exploitation of human labor to generate value. As the economist Korinek noted, “When a machine can do a worker’s job, the worker’s wage eventually falls toward the machine’s cost. Yes, new jobs will emerge, as they always do. But the machines will learn them faster and do them more cheaply. The reassuring historical patterns depend on humans being needed to run the economy. Remove that bottleneck, and we are facing something qualitatively different: a permanent shift in who, or what, captures the gains from economic growth.” AI AND THE TWO-PARTY SYSTEM Despite the most fervent proclamations of bourgeois economists, mass expulsion of humans from production can only decrease “aggregate demand”. Government may compensate for this for a while, with programs to create more markets, but in general the private property system cannot and will not permit substantial subsidies to meet the needs of human beings – that is a violation of its entire business model. As long as the government continues to be controlled by billionaires, it will never happen. The level of antagonism that AI is introducing into the economy today is actually sharper than the one at the root the “irrepressible conflict” that led to the US Civil War. At that time, the underlying antagonism was between slave capitalism and free labor capitalism, and no amount of diplomacy or political compromise could undo it. The inner economics of both systems required expansion into the same contested geographical territory, and the political survival of each depended on that expansion. Neither could survive without destroying the other. Today the antagonism is between a ruling class forced to defend private property, and the growing propertyless section of the working class that is becoming separated from the formal capitalist economy altogether. This section of the workers cannot physically survive without material means of support, and cannot obtain them without demanding that government distribute them based on need. They are compelled to politically attack the private property system. Today, it is either this displaced section of the working class or the private property system that must destroy the other in order to survive. One of the most important lessons of the pre-Civil War period is that major realignment of the two-party system requires a split in BOTH parties. In the 1850s, the issue was slavery – the ownership of human beings as a form of private property. The Republican Party grew out of the splintering of the Whig Party, but its victory in the 1860 presidential election would likely not have been possible without the division of Democrats into Northern and Southern sections, each with its own convention and presidential candidate The slaveocracy used John C. Calhoun’s “substantive due process” doctrine to claim that, since slaves were property, the constitution protected the slave system with no political, legal, or territorial limitations whatsoever. When the North resisted, the South launched an all-out counterrevolutionary Civil War. Despite vastly different economic and political conditions, the major ideological debate today is remarkably similar to that of the 1850s. Just as Calhoun argued that the constitutional right to own slaves trumped democracy then, today’s rulers argue that the right to private property supersedes every other right. In the 2020s, the issue has become ownership of private property itself. The antagonism in today’s economic system has already unleashed an escalating social revolution. The question is how it will be reflected in the political struggle and what will be its impact on the two-party system. The economy and a basic sense of human decency are driving more and more Americans to embrace restrictions on AI, data centers, ICE prisons, the Border Patrol, wars, genocides, and wanton destruction of the earth. The response of the rulers has been an escalating fascist offensive including Project 2025, DOGE, the mass deportation campaign, the attack on birthright citizenship, National Security memos, and the SAVE Act. Forced to choose between their hundred-billion-dollar bets on AI and tolerating democracy, the rulers have embraced fascism with a passion. The problem for the ruling class is how to impose a fascist regime on a population still steeped in the anti-fascism it learned in the twentieth century, especially during the 1960s -70s civil rights movement. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY The basic outlines of the coming realignments are beginning to appear. In both parties, dramatic conflicts are emerging between the dominant corporate wings and their working-class bases, although in very different forms. The Democratic Party majority is clearly anti-fascist, as the No Kings demonstrations amply illustrate. Democrats who describe themselves as liberals have increased from 28% of the total in 2000 to 59% today , with millions calling themselves democratic socialists. The pro-working-class movement within the Democrats continues to steadily broaden and deepen. Some 30 House Democrats are being primaried in 2026. Candidates like Platner, Talarico, and Abdul El-Sayed are surging in the Senate races. Large cities have elected pro-working-class leaders to local office like Zohran Mamdani, Katie Wilson, and Brandon Johnson. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna have introduced national legislation to impose an annual 5% wealth tax on billionaires , creating a litmus test for measuring Democratic candidates, including ones for president in 2028. The tax would raise $4.4 trillion to reverse Trump Medicaid cuts, expand Medicare, and provide $3000 per person cash payments to all American families earning under $150,000 a year. But the pro-corporate Democrats who dominate the Democratic National Committee are doubling down on resistance to these working-class demands for housing, health care, public education, peace, the environment, and abolition of ICE. Since the 2008 crash, the subservience of the Democratic leadership to Wall Street banks has ruined their brand and driven their frequent electoral losses. The explosion of AI – and the potential for billions in AI profits - now adds new urgency to their scramble to preserve power. At the same time, AI offers them a new narrative to attempt to bypass their credibility gap. Pro-corporate Democrats are rallying around a new messaging strategy called the “abundance agenda”. The concept was popularized in the book Abundance by Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein in 2025. It has crystallized into an abundance movement that has raised funds, organized conferences, written articles and books, and spawned numerous lobby groups. Although purportedly nonpartisan, Thompson and Klein focus their critique primarily on the Democratic Party. Their essential argument is that Democrats should organize around creating more wealth rather than fighting over how the wealth that exists is distributed. They say that the problem with mainstream Democrats is that they are too hamstrung by government regulations to build the housing and green energy infrastructure necessary for a better future. The abundance movement is closely related to the so-called YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) housing movement that blames the lack of affordable housing on zoning and environmental regulations. “Inclusive Abundance” is essentially a reinvention of the trickle-down economics popularized by Herbert Hoover and Ronald Reagan, dressed up in modern “techno-optimist” language. The problem of course is that increasing abundance within a private property system only creates more billionaires at the top and more poverty, homelessness, disease, and destitution for the masses at the bottom. This is problematic enough, but the marriage of abundance ideology to the AI industry sets the stage for absolute capitulation to fascism. According to researcher Dylan Gyauch-Lewis , the “abundance gang has a big AI problem”. It turns out it is funded by AI-related tech corporations, foundations, think tanks, and trade associations. Abundance-advocated policies are not just about housing, energy, and transportation, but also for breaking down resistance to building data centers and ICE prisons. While pro-corporate Democrats pay lip service to democracy, and may even loudly denounce Trump, they are nevertheless inseparably tied to the AI industrial complex being unleashed by Trump and the Republican Party. The catastrophic impacts of AI make it fundamentally incompatible with democracy. REPUBLICAN PARTY The Republican Party is generally aligned with the pro-corporate fascist agenda, but deeply divided over the tactics of how to implement it while still retaining some semblance of a working-class base. There is a pro-Nazi wing, led by Stephen Miller, that is aggressively driving the Project 2025 program. At the same time, there is a pragmatist wing led by people that pay lip servicing to disapproving of Nazism, while supporting a kinder, gentler fascism that can suppress democracy with less of the violence that has aroused so much opposition. It may seem counter-intuitive for such pro-Israel Republicans to be allied with out-and-out Nazis, but in fact there is a long history of relationships between right-wing Zionists and Nazis dating back to the 1930s. Because MAGA depends on “blood and soil” Nazis to drive the fascist agenda, few are willing to openly condemn them. But the toxic unpopularity of Nazism forces Trump and the MAGA leaders into repeated verbal flip-flopping and ambiguity. Fascism is not just the project of a group of racist ideologues and corrupt profiteers, however. The fact is that the AI revolution is already reducing too many millions, both Democrats and Republicans, to destitution. The economy is already beginning to tear the MAGA base apart. AI cannot proceed within a private property system without a fascist corporate dictatorship. Corporate dictatorship is impossible without eliminating or severely restricting the right to vote. And voter suppression is impossible without racial and other political campaigns against literally every population subgroup, real or imaginary, that can be separated out and attacked. The history of so-called “Negro disenfranchisement” in the South from 1890 to 1910 is instructive. “In Virginia the average vote cast for Congressmen declined about 56 per cent between 1892 and 1902,” wrote historian C. Vann Woodward . “In Alabama the decline was 60 per cent; in Mississippi, 69 per cent; in Louisiana, 80 per cent; and in North Carolina, 34 per cent. Of the states relying on the poll tax or the white primary, the decline was 69 per cent in Florida, 75 per cent in Arkansas, 50 per cent in Tennessee, and 80 per cent in Georgia.” Although the Southern disenfranchisement campaign very deliberately and specifically targeted African Americans, its corporate sponsors were more than happy to cancel voting rights for the millions of Southern working-class whites who also could not afford poll taxes or pass literacy tests. Indeed, consolidating the Jim Crow system required extending repression to every segment of the working-class. Similarly, the real danger of today’s SAVE Act, and the campaign against birthright citizenship, is that their actual targets are not just undocumented people, as they claim, but rather the rights of the ever-increasing categories of people that the dictatorship intends to marginalize as it consolidates its power. The fight against fascism demands that we build working class unity, step by step, across every occupation, region, demographic, and ideology. The epic Minnesota uprising points the way. Unity begins with the most impacted and will work its way outward into the broader sectors of society. War, inflation, and basic needs budget cuts are driving more and more people into the resistance. WAR ON IRAN Every one of these divisions within the two major parties has been intensified dramatically by the US war on Iran. There has NEVER been so much opposition by the American people to a US war at its outset as there is now. In addition to once again threatening survival of the planet with nuclear warfare, it is creating massive environmental damage, and unnecessarily endangering the lives of millions of Iranian civilians and even US troops. It is costing billions of dollars and dramatically raising gas and food prices, not only overseas but here in the US, for both Republican and Democratic voters. As a result, it is ratcheting up polarization within both the major political parties. On April 15, the largest number of Senators ever voted against sending weapons to Israel (36) - including over three-quarters of Democratic Senators. At the same time, the pro-corporate Democratic National Committee refused to cut its ties with the billionaire pro-Israel AIPAC lobby. The war is so unpopular that anti-war sentiment has broken out even inside the Republican Party. Major MAGA influencers have spoken out boldly against the war, not because they have changed their fascistic views, but because the impact of the war is so badly hurting the working-class sections of the MAGA base. As a result, there is a possibility that a section of Republicans may break off and join Democrats to invoke the War Powers Act, when its 60-day deadline for Congressional approval expires on May 1. The convergence of all these factors creates a significant opportunity - unprecedented since the Vietnam War - to unite a broad movement against the militarism of the ruling class. Strengthening the peace movement will be one more step toward independence from the two-party system, and creation of an anti-corporate, left wing third party where workers can fight more effectively for political power against the billionaire class. It is one more opportunity for revolutionaries to address the economic distress and moral outrage of the workers and deepen their social and class consciousness. CONCLUSIONS  ONE. The League needs to reaffirm the assessments it made and tactics it projected from 2010 to 2018 around the motion toward a third party. Just because a third party has not yet emerged does not mean these assessments and tactics were wrong. In fact, the growth of AI makes those assessments more relevant and more urgent than ever. The following are quotes from Rally articles written in those years. “Historically the working class has been politically tied to the capitalist class through the Democratic Party. Today, the Democratic Party remains the glue that ties the workers to the capitalists politically. That’s why the League’s strategy is to throw the blow at the middle — the Democratic Party — to break that connection as a first step towards the development of working-class political independence. “Is the development of a third party a blow that strikes at this middle? It is, and revolutionaries should welcome and embrace motions towards a third party. As workers are increasingly thrown out of the production process and out of the capitalist economy, the subjective political ties are beginning to fray and break. The process is accelerated with the development of a third party, which becomes a new environment and school for political independence from capitalist rule. “This third-party motion has one foot inside the Democratic Party pushing it to do the right thing, with the other foot outside, discussing the need to create new reformist political parties to the left of the Democratic Party. The third party is an indispensable stage in the revolutionary process. It is a necessary and inevitable step toward a workers’ party. “An anti-corporate, left wing third party will serve simultaneously as an instrument for the ruling class and for workers. The rulers will use it to attempt to contain the movement and retain its political control. The workers will use it to attempt to unite and politicize their battles for basic needs. “Revolutionaries who participate in the development of an anti-corporate, anti-fascist third party will influence it by pulling together a working-class trend within it. The stronger the working-class trend, the stronger the third party. It is crucial to influence the consciousness of the revolutionaries involved in the process. Political polarization will develop from this engagement over ideas, strategy and direction: polarization that will lead to a true workers party and a separation of class interests.” The Democratic Party contains a powerful and growing anti-fascist, pro-working-class current — but that current is in direct conflict with the corporate wing that still controls the party apparatus. The Republican Party leadership has been fully captured by the billionaire fascist offensive. Neither party, as currently constituted, can deliver what the working-class needs. We have to begin now to build the independent organizational infrastructure, programmatic clarity, and class unity that a working-class party will require. Support primary challenges to corporate Democrats. Build candidate pipelines grounded in working-class principles. Carry on political education that connects the present campaigns with the ultimate aim of creating a working-class party. TWO. The League needs to reaffirm the tactic of focusing where the movement for basic needs enters the political arena. The movements of the unsheltered, housing-insecure, and poor are not peripheral to the class struggle — they are its leading edge. Our work must deepen unity among these sectors, connect their demands to electoral formations and the broader political realignment taking shape, and center the demands for basic needs in electoral strategy and candidate accountability frameworks. Connect poverty and housing insecurity to AI-driven job displacement, wage stagnation, and the collapse of public services under AI-driven austerity. Raise the basic needs agenda inside the No Kings movement. THREE. Be nimble enough to respond to fascist coup attempts in Nov 2026 and 2028, including attempts to seize ballot boxes. Fight to block the SAVE Act and block repeal of birthright citizenship. These are the key pillars of the dictatorship - attempts to reinstate the Dred Scott decision that says nonwhites have no rights in the Constitution or Declaration of Independence. Expose the connection between billionaire AI ownership and the gutting of civil rights, labor rights, women’s rights, and democratic freedoms. Connect the growing resistance of women —to economic insecurity, political exclusion, and loss of reproductive rights — to the broader anti-fascist resistance, and use these connections to drive voter registration and turnout. FOUR. No more blood for oil, no funding for war and genocide. The same billionaires that profit from AI are the ones driving the wars, occupations, and the genocide of the Palestinian and Iranian people. The proposed trillion-and-a-half-dollar military budget has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with cutting basic needs and subsidizing AI investments. There is no separation between the fight for economic justice and the fight against imperial violence. FIVE. Work with the emerging working-class urban political movement that is already winning office, and putting forward transformational governance models. These victories are not isolated — they are the early expressions of political realignment. Elevate, connect, and learn from these models as proof of concept, and use them to build the political will for the deeper transformation we know is necessary. Public wealth for public good is not just a slogan — it is a governing framework that is winning in the real world. Develop political education curriculum connecting these local victories with the national movement to challenge private property supremacy and assert the people’s right to public wealth. Build solidarity. AI requires a massive infrastructure of data centers, consuming land, water, and energy in communities already overburdened by poverty and pollution. At the same time, ICE concentration camps are expanding alongside the deportation machinery. The movement to oppose new data centers and close ICE camps is an essential opportunity to expand the movement, especially into rural and semi-rural areas. THE MOMENT DEMANDS EVERYTHING WE HAVE The AI revolution is not just disrupting the economy — it is cracking open the political system, forcing into the open the irrepressible conflict between the billionaire class and the working-class majority. The question is not whether a new political formation will emerge. The question is whether it will be one that is shaped by a conscious, organized, working-class movement — or one imposed from above by a fascist oligarchy. The League's mission is to unite with other revolutionaries around the demands of low-income and displaced workers, and show how the solution is a cooperative society, where social wealth is owned in common and products are distributed according to need. The coming social explosion can be the birth of a new society. Our work is to make sure it is.