News and anaylisis from the Leading Light Communist Organization
By Janelle Velina It is about time that socialists in the West put their fears about nuclear power aside and consider the benefits and the greater potential that nuclear energy can bring under a socialist system. The movement against it was a negative critical point for socialism in the West, with Big Oil holding back progress. See... Continue Reading →
[Our common home is under attack! Our dearest comrade Planet Earth, who gives us life, is slowly shedding us. At the ends of the Earth, the Ice Caps are melting because humans cannot stop their addiction to cheap oil. In Africa, western oil corporations exploit weak regulations to sell toxic fuel to our fellow beings. ... Continue Reading →
[Typical. Predictable. - NP] (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) by Helena Horton A day after Microsoft introduced an innocent Artificial Intelligence chat robot to Twitter it has had to delete it after it transformed into an evil Hitler-loving, incestual sex-promoting, 'Bush did 9/11'-proclaiming robot. Developers at Microsoft created 'Tay', an AI modelled to speak 'like a teen girl', in order to... Continue Reading →
[Climate change is a global problem that will require a global response with international coordination. The capitalist-imperialist system is incapable of solving this issue for many reasons; chiefly because its endless and wasteful consumption is the primary source of the problem. The old global economic order must be smashed and be replaced by the New... Continue Reading →
[As Leading Lights, the protection and preservation of the environment has always been one of our highest priorities. While Pope Francis' definition of revolution certainly differs from ours, this still comes as welcome news. As the leader of one of the world's largest religions, the Pope commands a great deal of influence, especially in many... Continue Reading →
Researchers: Children exposed to religion have difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction (theRawStory) A study published in the July issue of Cognitive Science determined that children who are not exposed to religious stories are better able to tell that characters in “fantastical stories” are fictional — whereas children raised in a religious environment even “approach unfamiliar,... Continue Reading →
