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Dozens of climate movement groups are coming together in April to organize the #DefundClimateChaos Week of Arts Action

Please Help ZNet           Source: Resilience Democracy Rising is a series of blog posts on deliberative democracy: what it is, why it’s powerful, why the time is right for it, how it works, and how to get it going in your community. The series originates in the United States but will Read more…

Unless the international community sits up, takes notice and actually does something about water supplies in the Gaza Strip, the next crisis might be worse than anything we have ever seen

The National Call for Moral Revival made a stop in Madison, Wisconsin, on its way to Washington, D.C.

These union victories are not just wins for the workers involved. They are wins for workers everywhere

Interview on how the Left is challenging the neoliberal and far-right stranglehold over the country’s politics

One historian argued that a union victory at Amazon would be “game-changing for the entire labor movement in this country.”

A Bipartisan Oil Rush or the Phasing Out of Fossil Fuels?

Rather than cheering for a potentially catastrophic escalation, there are other options for the United States to help the Ukrainian people

When it’s Needed Most

Using the pretext of Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has banned several political parties and undermined labour and trade union rights

Please Help ZNet           Source: Rapid Transition Alliance All around the world, governments’ energy policies are at a crossroads. In order to insulate themselves from dependence on Russian oil and gas, tackle rising living costs and enact sanctions against Vladimir Putin, governments are collectively clamouring to diversify their energy supplies. This Read more…

A widespread culture of isolation and disconnection from our bodies, each other and the planet is negatively impacting the mental and physical health of people

President Biden has the power to cancel all student loan debt with a stroke of his pen, a move that will ensure Black women like me have, for perhaps the first time, a real shot at prosperity

This is AWU’s first victory in a campaign for collective bargaining rights but not the first action by Alphabet workers

“Universal debt cancellation would be the first serious step toward the goal of College for All that we have seen in our lifetime.”

Our workers voted yes in the election. They held strong. But I’ll tell you right now, I don’t know too many groups of workers that would go through what these guys did and still vote yes.”

What will happen now is uncertain. The one certainty is that it is up to us

“Brutal Assault” Reduces Homes & Schools to Rubble

If one believes that Putin is a “madman,” the implication is that meaningful diplomatic negotiations with Russia are impossible

What our examination should remind us is that Putin is part of a global right-wing authoritarian movement that seeks to “overthrow” the 20th century

Activists in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Nebraska are proving that building collective community power can successfully counter Big Oil’s monied interests

New York state legislators have just days to question phone hacking, forensics, and fusion centers before the budget passes

YouTube Has Deleted Six Years of My Show

The victory of conservative candidate Yoon Suk-yeol in South Korea’s recent presidential election will push the country deeper into the U.S. embrace

These baristas have created an organizing model that can be replicated at similar corporate chains everywhere

Biden Refuses to Release Central Bank Assets

Interview on building worker power through resilience.

“This is going to be a free for all for the oil and gas industry.”

When We Could Be Fighting Climate Change

This proxy war in Ukraine is not at all about freedom or democracy. It’s about money and power. It’s about restoring US imperial hegemony

Only civil society in the form of public pressure from within the main geopolitical antagonists can bring these two governments to their senses and bring an end to this terrible two-level struggle

In contrast to ineffective—or even unethical—actions targeting Russian culture and individuals, the Palestinian BDS campaign is a model of how to use boycott and divestment efforts strategically

Millions of people in the Middle East whose lives were already upended by conflict, displacement and poverty are now wondering where their next meals will come from

A series of reports underscore that disinformation is getting worse in 2022, not better

The Minneapolis teachers’ union just won a nearly three-week-long strike

The neoliberal economy was supposed to bring about a utopian world order. Instead, it gave us crippling psychological stress and social breakdown. How can we ever recover?

Calls Grow for Slavery Reparations Following U.K. Royal Visit

This is not a small company struggling in a competitive market — this is a grocery giant leeching the value of workers to give to wealthy shareholders and corporate executives

We cannot let the “unwarranted influence” and “misplaced power” of the MIC keep leading us into ever more dangerous military crises until one of them spins out of control and destroys us all

The global North’s unprecedented support for Ukrainians has revealed racist double standards. But it’s also an opportunity to extend such solidarity to everyone

If global oligarchy ‘business as usual ’ survives the Ukraine war, the rest of us will end up big losers

We stand for peace, coexistence of peoples and a democratic solution to conflicts

“Now more than ever, it is critical that Russian news outlets be allowed to provide unbiased coverage.”

Progressive advocates and economists say that Sanders’s bill is necessary to protect customers from being fleeced by companies

A trove of internal documents related to Solway Investment Group’s Fenix mine reveals bribery, pollution, and troubling efforts to repress dissent

People’s attitudes towards retail workers are now sadly the same as before the pandemic. The rudeness, intolerance and treating us like dirt has returned

In an overlooked, once-anonymous article from her student days, Biden’s nominee emphasized the human impact of law on the most hated people in America

The Sacramento school district is pleading poverty: teachers and school workers aren’t buying the district’s excuses — and now they’re on strike to change its priorities

The only way the Kremlin can even up the balance of military power will be through its nuclear arsenal and, in particular, through its 1,000 to 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons