New Vision/Strategy
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Albert: Socialism: Markets, Central Plans, or what?
This is the eleventh essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Albert: Socialism: Class Rule or Classlessness?
This is the tenth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Kolahi: Principles vs. Strategies
Discussing, debating or even disagreeing about strategy is healthy. But doing so respectfully, separate from personal attacks on others’ principles or intentions will help the long-term sustainability of winning meaningful change
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Albert: Socialism: Disputing Balanced Jobs
This is the ninth essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Albert: Socialism: Who Decides What?
This is the seventh in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Albert: Socialism: The Property Problem
This is the sixth in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Albert: Socialism: Disputing Pie Slices
Our real question should be is there a whole good society, a whole socialism if you will, that our equitable income can be a workable and effective part of?
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Albert: Socialism: Dividing Society’s Pie
A worthy economic vision should give income for how long one works, for how hard one works, and for the onerousness of the conditions under which one works, as long as one is producing something that is socially valued
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Albert: Socialism: Ethically Judging Current Societies
This is the third in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Albert: Socialism: Ethical Foundations
This is the second in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Albert: Socialism: New Direction?
This is the first in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for Socialism
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Albert: Interview with Michael Albert at launch of Collaboration for Change
You could lose, lose, lose and completely lose. But if you learn from what’s happening and you take lessons, then potentially the pattern of seeming losses prepares you to win
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Lakey: Midterms show way to victory is through vision, not reactivity
Even more people would support us if we activists organized more direct action campaigns led with vision. The very process of envisioning calls us to a bigger picture than we might otherwise have
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Foster: Climate Change Is the Product of How Capitalism “Values” Nature
Ecosocialism, is based on the dual necessity of substantive equality and ecological sustainability. System Change Not Climate Change
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Albert: Michael Albert on his Screenplay for Next American Revolution
Michael Albert talking about The Next American Revolution from Stuart...
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Albert: To Vote, or Not To Vote
Lesser Evil voting, a crime a against the future, or a step in the left direction?
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Why don’t we all aid the aims of every valid priority, not just with lip service, but with strategic care and sustained commitment?
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This is how it stands in my view: participatory economics, or parecon, is a fascinating, tantalizing thought experiment, but I can’t say with any confidence that it is something that can function in actual world
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Socialism is having a moment in the sun. It's a chance to push a bold, transformative vision of what a society for the many rather than the few can look like
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Burke: Why We Don’t Support Parecon
The basic problem we have with parecon as advocated by Michael Albert is that we think he proposes blueprints for society without attempting to provide anything empirical to back up his claims
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Polychroniou: Towards a Progressive Political Economy
After 45 years of 'neoliberal destruction', the time is ripe for moving forward with the adoption of a new set of progressive economic policies
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Lakey: Navigating the white water of these turbulent times
Alternative visions help to create platforms for uniting a movement of movements, an essential if we want a living revolution
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Scipes: Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society
Engaging with this book will help each of us further think out what we want to see in the future
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What is new, complements of Bernie Sanders and the last five years‘ activism is that such people no longer avoid the label socialist
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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Albert: Planting Seeds of the Future in the Present
This talk took place on 10th October 2018 at The Pearce Institute, Govan, Glasgow
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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
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...
