Since its launch on December 12, Socialism AI has been used by workers across different industries and countries to clarify political questions and develop a conscious response to the attacks they face. Grounded in Marxist theory and the historical experiences of the international working class, and drawing on decades of WSWS analysis, the platform is increasingly being taken up as a practical organising tool.

In the interview that follows, an Australian postal worker discusses the relevance of Socialism AI amid the “Amazonification” of postal services and the growing use of AI to intensify exploitation and destroy jobs.

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I’m a postal worker from Australia, and over the last five years we have seen postal services around the world transformed into parcel-delivery operations driven by the relentless pursuit of profit. This transformation has had a major impact on the wages, conditions and safety of postal workers internationally.

AI is already being deployed by Australia Post and postal services globally to intensify exploitation and eliminate jobs. Postal operators are following the example set by corporations such as Amazon and UPS, which have introduced AI systems to cut thousands of jobs in order to compete in the cut-throat parcel delivery market.

What we are witnessing is the “Amazonification” of postal services and their conversion into gig-economy-style operations. The result is a race to the bottom, as national postal services compete against one another internationally and against logistics giants like Amazon, UPS and FedEx. Workers everywhere face declining conditions, speed-ups and precarious work.

The same pattern is emerging in every country: cost-cutting, intensified workloads, new technologies rolled out to squeeze labour and eliminate jobs, and privatisation where it has not yet occurred.

Under these conditions, the launch of Socialism AI on December 12, 2025 is significant. It offers postal workers something the unions and management never will: clear, accessible political education rooted in Marxist theory, combined with practical guidance for organising. As the World Socialist Web Site explains, Socialism AI was created to bring the scientific outlook of Marxism to workers worldwide and to serve as “a guide for the building and expansion of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees.”

Postal workers are searching for a way to resist the ruling class drive to destroy our conditions and carry out privatisation. Yet in every country the unions function as little more than industrial police for management, collaborating with corporations and governments to suppress opposition and betray workers’ interests. Under these conditions, Socialism AI can provide the political clarity and practical guidance needed to expose these betrayals and to establish independent rank-and-file committees.

Socialism AI has immediate, practical applications. It can assist workers in drafting safety demands, preparing shop-floor ballots and developing step-by-step plans for independent investigations into workplace deaths and injuries. These tools are urgently needed following tragedies such as the deaths of Nick Acker and Russell Scruggs Jr in the United States, and the growing number of injuries suffered by postal workers facing relentless speed-ups and cost-cutting. The WSWS and the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee have already called for worker-led inquiries into these deaths.

At the same time, Socialism AI provides theoretical education that is indispensable for postal workers. Theory is not abstract for us. It explains why management and the union bureaucracy work together to impose austerity, surveillance and automation. By embedding Marxist analysis and the program of the Fourth International, Socialism AI helps workers understand the connection between local attacks—restructuring, AI-driven speed-ups and job cuts—and the global crisis of capitalism. As the project’s founders explain, its purpose is to “bridge the gap between the objective movement of the working class and the subjective level of socialist consciousness.”

The unions deliberately divide postal workers country by country, state by state and workplace by workplace, even though we face the same attacks everywhere. 

Socialism AI can help overcome these divisions by sharing lessons internationally. Tactics that succeed in one country can be adapted elsewhere. It can assist in establishing democratic rank-and-file committees, coordinating international action and linking postal workers with logistics and courier workers confronting the same “Amazonification” drive. Only international coordination can counter a global corporate strategy implemented with the full backing of governments and unions. Socialism AI is intended to assist the building of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees as the mechanism for this unity.

There is widespread discussion about AI and its use by corporations to destroy jobs. Under capitalism, new technology is used to intensify exploitation. But it can be turned against the bosses. Socialism AI is not a silver bullet. It is an educational and organisational weapon that must be consciously taken up and wielded collectively by workers themselves.

I urge postal workers to take it up, build rank-and-file committees and link up internationally. I call on my brothers and sisters around the world to use Socialism AI to educate, organise and unite. The Socialist Equality Party and the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee offer strategic assistance and a platform for this fight. Join and act so that our struggles become part of a broader international movement for workers’ power and socialism.