Newest Activism

• Read: School climate strikes

  Why adults no longer have the right to object to their children taking radical action
• Mochaidean: West Virginia’s Ongoing, Anti-Capitalist Struggle

  Should West Virginia strike again, it will be because the working-class educators of this state have developed a burgeoning class-consciousness that was lit last year, and is now carried on in the ranks of its militant citizens
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  Kelly: What it Really Takes to Secure Peace in Afghanistan

  Constant military surveillance of Afghans yields almost no real intelligence about the problems they face each day. An unusual group of volunteers uses a far different approach
• Román: Denver Teachers Strike

  The Denver teachers walked out Monday following 15 months of negotiations over a controversial bonus-based pay system that educators say leaves them unable to predict their salaries and guarantee financial security
• Martinez: Youth Movements Changing Tactics in the Face of Climate Crisis

  From occupying House offices to suing the federal government, young people are exploring creative strategies to spur action on climate change
• Levi: Battling bankers

  Three inspiring activists — from Spain, UK and Kenya — share their experiences of taking on bankers and the lessons and insights from their ongoing struggles
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  Lakey: How can allies protect communities threatened with violence?

  A favorite tactic of the extremist right is to attack...
• Gupta: Let’s Make February 16 National Stayaway Day

  If the shutdown resumes, we urge federal workers to stay away from work and their allies to occupy airports on 2/16
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  Greeman: Yellow Vests and Red Unions Strike Together

  Macron Prepares New Repressive Measures
• Brooks: Nurses Prepare Strike over Patient Ratios

  Four hundred nurses attended the bargaining session where safe staffing ratios were discussed, and members had an opportunity to speak
• Buell: Labor Strikes are Back and Shaping Public Policy

  How much of a role declining air service and/or the possibility of a broad walkout played in ending the shutdown is not clear
• Pizzigati: The Best Month for Egalitarians on Capitol Hill Since 1932

  Those rare moments when our political class suddenly starts viewing the nation’s richest through a skeptical lens can help trigger real social change
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  Winslow: Labor’s Most Spectacular Revolt

  Seattle General Strike
• Owliaei: What the Government Shutdown Told Us About Worker Power

  Workers have been fighting Donald Trump's agenda from the earliest days of his presidency
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  Baroud: Gaza Rallies for Caracas

  Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of besieged Gaza to show their support of the democratically-elected government of Venezuela and it’s legitimate leader, President Nicolas Maduro
• Friedman: Where Do Good Organizers Come From?

  An experiment in Ithaca, New York, over the last two years has shown surprising results in helping workers become organizers, with a method easy to adapt and reproduce anywhere
• Knight: Urban Indigenous organizing

  In so-called Canada, urban Indigenous organizers are re-energizing a decades-old struggle by redefining Indigenous sovereignty in the city streets
• Woodhouse: Oakland Teachers May Be the Next to Strike

  “We Have Exhausted All Our Options”
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  Glick: Does Working to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground Narrow Our Movement?

  You can’t, on the one hand, support a strong push for 100% renewables, green jobs, environmental justice and then, on the other, be silent about the expansion of the industry which we need to downsize as quickly as possible
• Contributors: Gilets Jaunes “Assembly of Assemblies” calls for massive strike

  The Gilets Jaunes of Commercy recently organized an “Assembly of Assemblies” to coordinate the radical democratization of the popular resistance in France