MARC VANDEPITTE says AI is driving the pace of destruction to unprecedented speed
IT IS 1943. Working night shifts in the shipbuilding firms that make up the Brooklyn Navy Yard on New York’s East River is a young playwright called Arthur Miller. He writes plays during the day and works nights to earn the money to live.
He is also learning the communist politics that will stay with him all his life. He learns it at meetings of the Communist Party cells among shipbuilders and longshoremen on the waterfront.
The Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1943 was a chaotic, frantically busy world of wharfs and slipways crammed with 70,000 men and women working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, building and repairing ships.
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports
A teaching delegation to Cuba offered IAN DUCKETT a powerful glimpse into a schooling system defined by care, creativity and the legacy of the island’s remarkable 1961 literacy campaign
Science has always been mixed up with money and power, but as a decorative facade for megayachts, it risks leaving reality behind altogether, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT



