Newest Activism

• Nelson: “Solidarity Is a Force Stronger Than Gravity”

  A speech on the labor movement's power to defeat bigotry, the proud legacy of democratic socialists, and why solidarity is the "greatest force for good in human history
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  Early: A GI Rebellion: When Soldiers Said No to War

  While student demonstrators and draft resisters drew more mass media attention at the time, many military draftees, reservists and recently returned veterans also protested the Vietnam war—with equal fervor and often greater impact
• Oliver: Meet the Parkland father keeping his son’s message alive through art

  Since the murder of his son Joaquin in the Parkland shooting, Manuel Oliver has been tackling the gun violence epidemic through “nonviolent creative confrontation.”
• Rojas: Rebuilding the Hegemony of Chavismo

  An intellectual committed to the communal project talks about the contradictions that the popular movement is facing in Venezuela today
• Alexander: ‘Christian left’ is reviving in America, appalled by treatment of migrants

  The high profile, religiously based moral outrage at Trump’s immigration policies does seem to be spurring some long-overdue rethinking of what it means to be Christian in America
• Essertier: Japanese and Koreans Stand Up

  Japanese and Koreans Stand Up for Freedom of Expression, Peace, Memorialization of the ‘Comfort Woman’ Atrocity, and Women’s Rights in Nagoya, Japan
• Surin: The Continuing Hong Kong Impasse

  Beijing wants clearly to avoid a military occupation of Hong Kong while making no concessions to the protesters
• Khrushcheva: Why Moscow Protests Have Putin’s Government Worried

  Up to 60,000 protesters gathered Saturday in Moscow in the largest demonstration Russia has witnessed in years
• Azad: Öcalan’s Strategic Success on Imralı

  Interview with Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan's attorney
• Dall: Organizing Railroad Track Workers in Yuma last week….

  Members of the BMWED, whose monopolistic employers clock billions of dollars in profits per quarter, now pay $228.89 per month in premiums and an Out-Of-Pocket Maximum in hospital bills of $4000 per year
• Day: Socialists of Color to the Front

  LeftRoots, a socialist group with majorities of women and people of color, is strategizing to win
• Prado: In Venezuela, Social, Popular and Communal Unity Is Not an Illusion

  The Corriente Revolucionaria Bolívar y Zamora interviewed Ángel Prado, the spokesperson of the Socialist Commune El Maizal, a campesino organization dedicated to building socialism at the grassroots level in Venezuela
• Mackey: What a Protest in Hong Kong Looks Like

  Pro-Democracy Marchers Have Lost Their Fear of the Police
• Rebellion: Disobedience down under

  Congratulations, you made it through the hottest month ever recorded....
• Abbott: A growing student occupation in Guatemala

  A student occupation opposing the “safe third country” agreement in Guatemala has transformed into a national movement for access to higher education
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  Barber: The battle to block state preemption of local minimum wage laws

  The Fight For $15 movement has won some important victories...
• Rojas: Rebuilding the Hegemony of Chavismo

  An intellectual committed to the communal project talks about the contradictions that the popular movement is facing in Venezuela today
• MacDonald: “Make Detroit the Engine of a Green New Deal”

  Activists outside the Detroit debate say that climate policy should put polluted and disinvested communities first.
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  Bradbury: Kentucky Miners Camp Out, Block Coal Train, Demand Stolen Wages

  The local community has rallied behind the miners. Since the mines closed, neighbors and friends have been donating to help families pay their utility bills. Now people are bringing food and water down to the railroad tracks.
• Melo: The battle for the commons in neoliberal Colombia

  The local struggle to protect the Rio Blanco ecological reserve epitomizes the resistance against the destructive impact of decades of neoliberal development