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What We Can Learn From the First Woman-Run, Legal Abortion Clinic
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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Disaster patriarchy and the global war on women
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
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
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?
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’
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
“Today it was me, tomorrow who follows?”
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Democracy, Strategy, Modes of Struggle: The High-Stakes Strife in DSA
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
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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Thousands in the streets for ‘Bans Off Our Bodies’ rallies in hundreds of cities
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’
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Photo by PradeepGaurs/Shutterstock.com India’s farmers are revolting against Prime Minister...
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New Republican Congress’s 4th Corporate Offensive
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
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
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
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?
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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UKIP: Resisting the politics of the right
Discussion:Resisting the politics of the right– Len Arthur UK...
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...
