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What We Can Learn From the First Woman-Run, Legal Abortion Clinic
By: Joyce Bressler
Founded before Roe v. Wade, the Vermont Women’s Health Center helped make abortion safe and accepted, showing that women’s liberation is connected to freedom for all
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Poor People’s Campaign Marches in Memphis Ahead of DC Gathering
By: Kenny Stancil
"It's been 54 years since the sanitation worker's march," said Bishop William J. Barber II, "and right here in Memphis they still don't have union rights."
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Lessons for nonviolent activism in an era of digital authoritarianism
By: Matthew Cebul
As autocrats become savvier in using technology to repress dissent, activists are striving to preserve the benefits of digital activism and mitigate the risks
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Just Transition Is About Systemic Change
By: Dirk Holemans
With leadership and a real vision for the future, we can build real support for bold policies across Europe
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Communities come together after fascist attack in Buffalo, NY
By: Mitchell Jones
The fascist murderer in Buffalo was not a “lone gunman.” He was the product of the vile white supremacist ideology
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Supply Chain Failures Prove Growing Need for Localized Economies
Ordinary people are responding to the specter of food insecurity by boosting localized production of food and other basic needs
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Farm and Construction Equipment Workers Strike in Iowa and Wisconsin
By: Jonah Furman
Eleven hundred workers who manufacture agricultural and construction equipment for CNH Industrial in Burlington, Iowa, and Racine, Wisconsin, have been on strike since May 2
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Detroit tenants win right to counsel in evictions
By: Jerry Goldberg
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Disaster patriarchy and the global war on women
By: V
I have fought my entire life not to believe I am nothing. Not to believe I am stupid. To fight to believe I have a right to be here
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Brookline teachers strike for one day, win three-year contract struggle
By: Sebastian Garza
In a single-day strike, the BEU strike won a three-year-long struggle
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UK admits activists “forced” Elbit to sell factory
By: Asa Winstanley
A British government prosecutor admitted in court this week that Palestine Action campaigners “forced the closure” of a factory owned by an Israeli weapons firm earlier this year
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Movements are vying for political power — is ‘co-governance’ the answer?
By: Mark Engler
As the left increasingly focuses on electoral politics, a new framework is emerging for how candidates who win should partner with social movements
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‘That’s why I’m sticking with Starbucks—to make it better’
By: Jason Kerzinski
Six workers at the Maple Street Starbucks in New Orleans why they’re fighting to unionize
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McDonald’s workers in LA walk out against abuse
By: Emi Lockwood
“Today it was me, tomorrow who follows?”
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Democracy, Strategy, Modes of Struggle: The High-Stakes Strife in DSA
By: Max Elbaum
Core questions of political strategy animate the debate roiling DSA. The whole Left has a stake in the outcome
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Virginia Target Workers Seek To Unionize Amid Surge in Labor Organizing Efforts
By: Michael Sainato
The company has already reportedly pushed back by trying to use union dues as a tactic to deter workers from supporting the union
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Amazon Lashes Back in Staten Island Warehouses
By: Luis Feliz León
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Thousands in the streets for ‘Bans Off Our Bodies’ rallies in hundreds of cities
By: Liberation Staff
In cities large and small, people came out into the the streets
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Sentenced for Coal Blockade, Climate Activists Vow to ‘Continue to Do What Must Be Done’
By: Julia Conley
"The judge seemed more concerned that these non-violent activists disrupted profits than the fact that the continued use of coal is causing irreparable harm to the planet"
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Left-Wing Populism Can Win in Trump-Voting Areas, Too
By: Jonathan Smucker
With working-class candidates, populist messaging, and effective organization, we can make major inroads in “Trump country”
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Trader Joe’s Workers Announce New Union Effort in Letter to CEO
By: Sharon Zhang
Trader Joe’s workers in Massachusetts are forming their own union in order to combat what they describe as a toxic work culture cultivated by the supposedly progressive company
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Book Review: ‘On the Line,’ By Daisy Pitkin
By: Eric Dirnbach
This new memoir by a union organizer recounts dramatic organizing campaigns with laundry workers and offers thoughts on building worker solidarity and power
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‘It’s a Fight They’ll Get’: Defenders of Abortion Rights March Nationwide
By: Jon Queally
One speaker at the Ban Off Our Bodies rally in the nation's capital said that Saturday was just "day one of a 'Summer of Rage' where we will be ungovernable. Ungovernable!"
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It’s Not Enough to Resist, We Have to Build, Too
By: Jeremy Corbyn
The billionaires and corporations claim to hate government action. In reality, they love it. The only thing they hate is governments acting in your interests
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Class Struggle or Get it in the Neck, Part 2
By: Noam Chomsky
Photo by Adham Ayesh/Shutterstock David Barsamian: Let’s talk about...
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The Good, The Bad and the Profound
It turns passive to active, increases a feeling of efficacy, and confronts the learned hopelessness many of us were taught
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In 2021, the Best Way to Fight Neofascist Republicans Is to Fight Neoliberal Democrats
By: Norman Solomon
What’s imperative for progressives is not to “speak truth to power” but to speak truth about power
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Class Struggle or Get it in the Neck, Part 1
By: Noam Chomsky
Unless working people, the general population, take part in the class struggle, they’re going to get it in the neck
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Millions of India’s Farmers Are in a Fight for Their Economic Lives
By: Sonali Kolhatkar
Photo by PradeepGaurs/Shutterstock.com India’s farmers are revolting against Prime Minister...
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MIT Grad Students Vote Overwhelmingly For A Union
MIT is a world renowned research institution. Yet, the 3,800 grad students who make it so are barely scraping by. Now they’ve unionized
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Stop the War in Ukraine Online Rally
As the conflict in Ukraine rages on, we, the peace-loving people of the world, must raise our voices to demand a ceasefire and a negotiated settlement
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Mobilizing is Not Organizing – Pt 5
By: Jane McAlevey
Advocacy and mobilizing are directed at people who support your cause. Organizing is a strategic plan to win over workers who don’t agree.
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Stand By Me: PFC Band feat. Clarence Bekker | Playing For Change
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New Republican Congress’s 4th Corporate Offensive
By: Jack Rasmus
Congress is about to develop new policies on behalf of Corporate America, many of which represent a resurrection of past policies of the Bush administration
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Environmental Activists Discuss Sunday, Sept. 21 Demonstration & What Next
By: Jack Rasmus
Jack Rasmus welcomes environmental activists, Michael Rubin and Glenn Turner, to discuss tomorrow’s major environment movement event
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Revival of U.S. Movement for Single Payer
By: Jack Rasmus
Jack Rasmus interviews Mark Dudzic, National Coordinator of the Labor Campaign for Single Payer HealthCare (aka Medicare for All), on the recently re-energized and growing national movement for Single Payer-National Healthcare
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Michael Albert On Participatory Media
By: Danny Schechter
A former member of Students for a Democratic Society, Michael would go on to develop, along with Robin Hahnel, an alternative to market capitalism called participatory economics.
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The U.S. Empire: Growing Stronger or Weaker?
By: Jack Rasmus
Guests Zeese & Flowers argue the US Empire’s increasing aggressiveness and violence in recent decades are indications of its growing weakness, not strength, as challenges to it mount worldwide
Blogs
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From where we are to socialism
By: Len Arthur
A long post that is composed of three separate posts...
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UKIP: Resisting the politics of the right
By: Len Arthur
Discussion:Resisting the politics of the right– Len Arthur UK...
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Consciousness Pilots Our Evolution!
By: Antonio Carty
I was drawn in my spare time over last couple...
Books
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The Activists Handbook: A Step by Step Guide to Participatory Democracy
Table of Contents Introduction 1: Activism, advocacy and the practice...
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Worst-Case Scenario – Governance, Mediation and the Security Regime
In this original and provocative new book, Stuart Price identifies...
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Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America
In the past decade, grassroots social movements played major roles...
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The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914
In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of...
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The Politics of Nonviolent Action: The Dynamics of Nonviolent Action
The Politics of Nonviolent Action is a major exploration of...