New Vision/Strategy
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Podur: Envisioning a Future Participatory Society
A review of RPS 2044: An Oral History of the Next American Revolution, by Michael Albert
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Dolack: Cooperation Jackson builds a better future
It is far too early to know what the future will hold for what must be the most thorough-going experiment in economic democracy in the United States today
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Sandstrom: Accounting in a Democratic Economy
There is a value in discussing visions and demonstrating that alternatives to the capitalist economic system can be expressed in more concrete terms as well, and not only in high-flying utopian rhetoric
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Fitz: Democratic Production and the Workers’ Opposition of Revolutionary Russia
Every progressive group needs to vastly expand to practice of rotating the role of coordinators. This is what it means to develop a leadership which negates itself in the process of becoming
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Various interviewees discuss RPS's second convention and shadow government.
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Dolack: Future Societies in Fiction
It is nice to have stimulating fiction that works not only as a fine read, but allows us to think about the possibilities along the way
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...what about the psychological pitfalls of doing a selfie-review? What about being accused of overly serving your own interests? Risk that?
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Lakey: Why the Resistance can’t win without vision
A well-crafted vision offers a connection point for unity, an attractive means of outreach, and a source of positive energy in a degraded political environment
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Trainer: The Catalan Integral Cooperative
The Simpler Way Revolution is Well Underway
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Emanuele: Red State Organizing in the Age of Trump
Perhaps this is the limitation of an organizer’s perspective: we have too much to do and not enough time to contemplate what sort of society we’re trying to achieve
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Harris: The People (Potentially) Have the Power
Without a vision of a new society, run by the majority and transcending capitalism, the contradictions of the current class system will invariably produce only more Trumps
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Dorfman: Martin Luther King Marches On
Faraway, I was faraway from Washington D.C. that hot day in August of 1963 when Martin Luther King delivered his famous words
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The theory and praxis of social ecology remains our best hope to fend off a dystopian future and meaningfully reshape the fate of humanity on this planet
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Chapter ten from the book RPS/2044: An Oral History of the Next American Revolution...
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Albert: Housing and Rights to the City
This is chapter nine of the book RPS/2044: An Oral History...
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Albert: Worst of Times, Best of Times
Why are so many of us eager to block Trump, but beyond that not eager to win really positive, humane lasting social progress across all facets of society?
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Bertoldi: The Left is dead, carpe DiEM!
In the aftermath of another round of elections across Europe,...
ZMag Vision/Strategy
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Shea Baird: America Needs A Network of Rebel Cities
The urgent questions that progressive activists in the U.S. are now asking themselves are, not just how to fight back against Trump, but also how to harness the momentum of Bernie Sanders’ primary run to fight for the change
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Albert: Thinking About the Elections
There are countless possible answers as to what one might usefully do in these times. Try to preserve and enlarge the momentum that has developed largely from the Sanders campaign, while also trying to ensure that Trump loses.
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Street: Beyond False Dichotomies
The reality in most cases is that there are many in-between or other alternative options, not just two mutually exclusive ones…. There are two ways in which one can commit a false dilemma. First, one can assume that there are only two (or three, though that case is strictly speaking be a ‘false trilemma’) options when there really are many more
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Solomon: New Year, New Era for Progressives and Obama
As 2013 gets underway, progressives need to be here now....
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Adams: What Next: Mobilizing or Organizing?
It's clear that most everyone in Wisconsin is opposed to...
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Rasmus: Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Repression? Part III
This is the second part of a series by Jack...
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Contributors: Searching for a Democratic Alternative
A proposal for a new International has been circulating online...
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Krauthamer: Worker Occupations & the Future Of Radical Labor
This interview was conducted at Professor Noam Chomsky’s office at...
Video Vision/Strategy
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Panitch: Left Alternatives to Social Democracy
Leo Panitch is member of the Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly, is Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University
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Albert: The Return of the Coordinator Class
Building up an economic alternative creates necessarily a set of problems. That could be seen in Argentina
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Albert: The Financial Crash and the Always-Crisis
Even before the financial and economic crisis in 2008 capitalism has been in crisis
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Albert: Participatory Economy – An Alternative to the Always-Crisis
Interview on participatory economy for German/European TV - Part One.
Audio Vision/Strategy
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Callinicos: March for the Alternative
Alex Callinicos shares his assessment of the massive anti-cuts “March for...
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Authors: Building a Powerful Left in the United States
Guests: Norman Solomon, Ralph Nader, Cornel West, and Noam Chomsky...
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Chomsky: The Political Philosophy of Noam Chomsky
He’s one of the most influential intellectuals of our age...
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Cambridge, MA – Michael Albert of Z Magazine and Prof....
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Grubacic: Wobblies & Zapatistas: Talk at the Anarchist Book Fair
On Sunday at the 14th Annual Bay Area Anarchist Book...
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Stevens: Workers’ Councils by Anton Pannekoek: Growth
From the back cover of Workers’ Councils (2003 AK Press...
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Stevens: Workers’ Councils by Anton Pannekoek: Objections
From the back cover of Workers’ Councils (2003 AK Press...
Vision/Strategy Blogs
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Bohmer: Building a Movement for Universal Healthcare
Outline of talk, June 19, 2013 to Physicians for a...
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Albert: From Each, To Each – Yet Again
A difficult dispute divides some libertarians who advocate "from each...
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Bohmer: “The Afghanistan War and the Occupy Movement are Not Over;
Talk at the Event, Celebrating the One Year Anniversary of...
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Wilson: Family Farm Diabetes: Foodies, Farm Justice “Allies” and “The Big Hog”
(Regarding this blog, see also the recent blog by Jen...
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Wilson: Flawed Food History: Farm Justice Missing from Timeline
Introduction This should really be four or five blogs, a...
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Albert: Open Letter from Chomsky, Shiva, Pilger, Santos, and 40 more…
The following self explanatory communication is being sent to many...
Vis. & Strat. 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...
