Newest Activism

• Collective 20: From 2000 Feet

  The Covid-19 global pandemic has illuminated the stark reality of whose labor it is that sustains our families, our communities, our clinics, our schools, our eldercare institutions, farms and food chains
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  Cohn: Biden’s Victory Does Not Guarantee a Progressive Agenda. We Must Fight for It.

  Progressives played a pivotal role in delivering the presidency to Biden and several congressional races to Democrats as well as turning Georgia and Arizona blue. Now progressives must hold Biden’s feet to the fire and demand that he govern for the 99 percent and not the 1 percent
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  Bohmer: The 2020 Election and What We Should Do Now

  We shouldn't give Biden any breathing room and wait to see what he does before acting. We need to build campaigns and social movements and mass action in the streets for progressive policies
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  Kidane: Provocations to rupture and the power to act

  Social movements from South Africa to Brazil have built economic systems rooted in cooperation, creativity and direct action as an antidote to the neoliberal order
• Flowers: The Imperative To Achieve National Improved Medicare For All

  The majority of people in the United States support a universal healthcare system. The opportunity to win it is now because the recession means our uninsured numbers will soar and the current healthcare system cannot address the COVID-19 crisis
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  Solomon: Hey Joe, Where You Going With That Pentagon in Your Hands?

  Biden’s pick for Secretary of Defense, Michèle Flourno,y should be understood as a scenario for the president-elect to stick his middle fingers in the eyes of Americans who are fed up with endless war and ongoing militarism
• Chowdhury: Joe Biden Owes His Victory to the Left, No Matter What the Democratic Party Says

  Organizers, not consultants, delivered key states like Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia. Democrats ignore this reality at their peril
• Uzcátegui: Standing by a Radical Chávez

  A key figure from the newly-formed Popular Revolutionary Alternative talks about his expectations for the upcoming parliamentary elections
• Young: To Push Biden Left, We Must Build Movements to Challenge His Corporate Backers

  The best way to get better electoral outcomes is to build strong non-electoral movements
• Hunziker: Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out

  “If a government does not change, we shall… go into a rebellion via civil disobedience against the government in order to fundamentally reduce carbon emissions… It’s not actually that complicated, is it?”
• Aye: Nigeria: “We Will Fight For Our Total Liberation”

  Nigeria is the most populous country on the African continent, with just over two hundred million inhabitants. The Oct. 3 killing of a young man by the brutal SARS police unit has sparked a nationwide uprising
• Ransby: Trumpism Can’t Be Voted Away. We Need Radical Social Transformation.

  We have to offer people an entry point into a radically democratic process of social transformation grounded in process and principles. The other path is not a dead end, but a deadly precipice
• Moss: Fighting Covid by Empowering Workers

  This winter, worker committees, the first in the nation, will come on line in Los Angeles County
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  de Sousa Santos: Fascism 2.0: An intensive course

  Polarization against the 1 percent is purely rhetorical, its sole aim being to mask the real, democracy-vs-fascism 2.0 polarization, so that fascism may prevail democratically
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  Swain: Anti-Nuclear Pacifists Get Federal Prison Terms for Nonviolent Protest

  The most dedicated peace activists you’ve never heard of are headed to federal prison amid a deadly pandemic
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  Cook: I Am Greta isn’t about climate change. It’s about the elusiveness of sanity in an insane world

  Society could become so pathological, so detached from a normative way of life, that it induced a deep-seated alienation and a form of collective insanity among its members
• Theoharis: The Other America

  The New Politics of the Poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA
• Schueler: The $15 Minimum Wage Won in Florida, But Biden Didn’t. Here’s Why.

  Activists say the key was actually talking about working-class issues
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  Zunes: Most Dem Voters Are to the Left of Biden on Foreign Policy. Can He Be Moved?

  Virtually every change in U.S. foreign policy over the last several decades came not from the initiative of enlightened Democratic leaders, but from pressure by opponents of war and supporters of human rights
• Klassen: The Housing Crisis Is Just Getting Started; Let’s Stop It

  The Left should organize not only to ward off an eviction wave but to challenge the capitalist logic creating the housing crisis