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Interview on How Capitalism, Colonialism & Imperialism Fuel Climate Crisis
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Government priorities do not include worker pay or working conditions
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My Revolutionary Inspiration, Barbara Ehrenreich
Remembrances of the late author have focused on her best-selling Nickel and Dimed with only rare acknowledgement of the major roles she played in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism
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Casting a discerning eye on political theater
The term “political theater” has taken on some pointedly negative...
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The climate movement was built for a world before climate change — it’s time for a new approach
We need a mass movement that can deal with climate disasters. That means training people to both protect and mobilize their communities
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Environmental racism from Jackson to Flint
There are people here who are fighting the fight, people here who have made strides and significant changes
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A Farm Worker Speaks Truth to Power in Washington
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh got an earful from essential workers before inducting them into the agency’s Hall of Honor
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Why the climate movement should target oil refineries
By satirizing the dangers of an aging refinery, activists in Wisconsin show how local organizing can deal a blow to the oil industry and empower frontline communities
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Independent Unions Are Great—And Proof of Labor’s Broken Institutions
The inspiring wave of independent labor organizing also represents the failure of existing unions
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The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globeThe mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down — strikes.
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As Heat Islands Worsen in Baltimore, Local Composting Can Relieve Its Effects
Across the U.S., the effects of 2022’s record high heat temperatures are widespread
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How to rise above partisan politics to uphold our democracy
Seven ways to mobilize citizens across differences as partisans for democracy
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‘No Regard for the Law’: Starbucks to Deny Union Workers New Paid Leave Benefits
"Their goal is to retaliate against and punish union stores," said Starbucks Workers United.
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‘We Don’t Owe Joe Manchin Anything!’ Opposition to Dirty Side Deal Grows
"The science is clear," said one climate campaigner. "If we want a habitable planet, we cannot afford this dirty deal."
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‘We Could Be Living in the Future We All Dream About’
Interview on Janine Jackson: Powerlands, an award-winning documentary film about resource extraction and its impacts on Indigenous communities around the world
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Mining Mafias Ruin Livelihoods Of Farmers And Pastorals, Spread Terror
The time has now come for more unity and better coordination of these various scattered actions to achieve more important results
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War Is Not the Answer to Deep Planetary Insecurity
‘the bridges that connect different groups are among our most important assets’
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Activist shareholders for Smith & Wesson embrace the long view in struggle to curb gun violence
Despite failing to pass a human rights resolution, one group of investors will continue the fight to hold the world’s biggest firearms manufacturer accountable
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Joe Biden Thinks a Rail Strike has Been Averted. Do Rail Workers?
A strike (or lockout) is still on the table
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Railroad Companies Almost Inflicted an Economic Disaster on the U.S.
All because they chose profits over humane working policies
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‘Say NO To US Wars!’: Back To The Streets, October 15-22
Stop Washington’s war moves toward Russia and China
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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...
