Newest Activism

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  Albert: Beyond Depravity, Another World

  How ironic it is to write an ode to participation and collectivity while hunkering down behind voluntarily closed doors enduring voluntarily welcomed isolation. Stupid hypocrisy? Marvelous victory? Maybe both. So it goes.
• Abramson: #WhiteCoatsForBlackLives Wants Racial Justice In The Medical Field

  The healthcare industry has a long and well-documented history of racist treatment of Black and Indigenous people. Now, doctors join the movement for Black lives
• Logan: Facebook and Its Big Tech Cronies Are Upgrading Their Anti-Union Tools

  If workers continue to organize, it’s possible that Big Tech’s big brother surveillance tools may not be sufficient to quell these collective voices of protest
• Germanos: ‘Historic Victory for Working People’

  Seattle City Council Passes Progressive Tax on Big Business to Fund Relief
• Singh: If Governments Believe So Much in Nonviolence, They Should Try It

  Important questions are being raised about why the police seem so much less skilled in nonviolent techniques of de-escalation and conflict resolution than the average bartender, ambulance attendant and social worker
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  Gindin: Transform Unions and Organize the Unemployed

  Workers still have the power to shut down production but unions must have a class consciousness, including organizing the unemployed
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  Gupta: On Coronavirus and the Anti-Police-Brutality Uprising

  An investigative reporter, Arun Gupta has been consistently ahead of...
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  Glick: A Climate Movement Turning Point?

  It makes sense that this fresh and hopeful wind of change sweeping across Turtle Island is impacting some of those who have some power, like federal judges, and unnerving the “them” in “them and us.”
• Bernd: Housing Activists Unite to Fight Mass Evictions and Defund Police

  “I just don’t feel that police evicting people is a way to ‘protect and serve.’”
• Ottenberg: Re-Organizing Labor

  A look at Shaun Richman's newly published Tell the Bosses We’re Coming
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  Ellner: David Harvey’s New Thesis “Capitalism is too Big to Fail”: Is it?

  It is surprising that at this moment, when dire circumstances have generated a degree of hope, with the Black Lives Matter protests and such widespread disillusionment with the system, that Harvey comes up with this line of thinking
• Doctorow: Next Steps in the Anti-Racist Struggle?

  We need to make important and unifying decisions toward a just transition. And then we need to act
• Contributors: In Memoriam: Dr.Howard Croft 1941 – 2020

  Members and activists who have long memories of his tireless work for empowerment of all residents of the District of Columbia contribute their recollections
• Cohen: Politicians of Color Should Not Be Immune From Criticism

  As progressives in a country with a long, grim history of racism continuing to the present day, it's our responsibility to fight racism everywhere we see it
• Rebellion: The Rebellion Returns, September 1

  10 years ago, scientists identified 16 potential tipping points in the earth system that could spell disaster. Today, there is evidence that 9 of these are already active
• Juravich: They’re Back: Concessions Are Coming

  We must stand up against blaming downwards—the demonization of immigrants, poor folks, and people of color
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  Gupta: Seattle’s CHOP Went Out With Both a Bang and a Whimper

  “Greed drowned out the protests.Everyone is fighting to be a leader because they want to be in the meeting with the mayor and say, ‘Defund the police and fund my organization.’”
• Ransby: The Biden Problem

  Social Movements Must Defeat Trump & Also Hold Dems Accountable
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  Wright: Adjudicating the Chomsky-Greenwald Dispute on Lesser-Evil Voting

  There are, at long last, so many newly awakened leftists in this country that in the aggregate they can have a tangible effect on the elections
• Koehler: Is the nation opening its soul?

  The ghosts of the past that are returning to the present moment could be the harbingers of unimaginable change