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Albert: Participatory Economics, Ecology, and Anarchism
The following was written for a collection to be entitled Anarquismo contemporáneo y ecología (Contemporary anarchism and ecology) to be published In Chile
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Emanuele: Power Requires Structure, Structure Requires Discipline
Ordinary Americans will never win the reforms we need to survive until or unless hundreds of thousands of poor and working-class people across the United States participate in the political process
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Collective 20: Voters’ Motives and Left Agendas
On the left we therefore shouldn’t passively hope against hope that public officials will serve humane priorities. We should grow our organized, informed, activist power to force the outcomes we desire
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Albert: Looking Inward: Can We Win? Or Will We Defeat Ourselves?
We who would improve ourselves, our relatives, our friends, our neighbors, or especially the world, need to learn how to deal with our tendencies to delusion, not only in its most obvious political forms like sectarianism, but also in its more personal dimensions that are cumulatively no less deadly to our political and social openness to critical change.
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Collective 20: Transforming the Corporate System, One Step at a Time
If we want a different world, one that respects people and all life on earth, we should not despair. We have the solutions and a movement-wide boycott could serve as an important vehicle for implementing those solutions
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Is there a way to attain solidarity with a diversity of unity and autonomy without undercutting what exists and without submerging each current facet of the left into a weakened compromised stance?
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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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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
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Albert: In the aftermath of US Elections
Trump’s shenanigans over the election may be trying to allow four years of resenting and organizing against a stolen election and against the rise of black and brown citizens, on the road to 2024
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Collective 20: Culture Makes Us Human
In the end, make every day count. Create with every last breath. Organize and resist with all our collective will. Leave nothing on the table. There’s far too much at stake.
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Emanuele: Left Culture and Movement Prospects
Have you ever heard a fellow progressive, leftist, radical, or revolutionary say, “I remain on the left despite the left, not because of it”? We have.
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Albert: Dealing With Differences
Both individually and in organizations we should celebrate differences and, when possible, should keep alive varied approaches so that everyone benefits from lessons and accomplishments others attain
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Albert: A Rock and a Hard Place, Reform and/or Revolution
How do we conduct activism seeking limited gains with the personalities and means we have at hand, yet in ways that lead toward comprehensive transformation?
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Albert: A Class Between Labor and Capital?
What the two class view leaves out, however, is that capitalists are not the only class that has major relative advantages
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The response of athletes as teams and as individuals, striking, dropping out of tournaments, speaking out, is remarkable
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Collective 20: Freedom, Responsibility, and Alienation
What is freedom? We all speak of it. We all want it. We all celebrate it. But what, really, is it? Not some deep hieroglyphic, academic definition, but what is freedom as we do or don’t live it in our daily lives?
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Collective 20: Raise, Don’t Stabilize and Don’t Reduce Social Costs
We seek radical social transformation. But short of that, our actions should not only force elites to respond to our demands they should also expand democracy and plant the seeds of a new future in the present
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Emanuele: Winning Requires Vision, Strategy, and Numbers
The current wave of protests must articulate winnable demands with regard to policing (which will vary greatly depending on geographical location/political context) while simultaneously articulating demands that meet the primary material needs of poor and working class people (wages, housing, debt)
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Bohmer: Raise the Social Cost: An Important Strategic Concept; No Justice, No Peace!
We should reach out and listen before we criticize some of their actions. These direct-action resisters have the potential or already are an important part of social movements and organizations that demand a better world
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Albert: Beyond Depravity, Another World
How ironic it is to write an ode to participation and collectivity while hunkering down behind voluntarily closed doors enduring voluntarily welcomed isolation. Stupid hypocrisy? Marvelous victory? Maybe both. So it goes.
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Collective 20: Tomorrow’s World, Today
COVID-19, and before Covid everything else, has raised a question...
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Collective 20: From ‘Movement Moments’ to Change, From the Red Summer to Black Lives Matter
“I think we really are on a trajectory for something different”
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Albert: Old SDSers, New DSAers, and Trump vs. Biden
In a recent letter a group of old SDSers hoped...
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Falk: From a Dysfunctional World Order to a Sustainable Future
What is altogether missing are credible sources of revolutionary energy guided by such a vision of a necessary and desirable future, which would imply a rejection of autocratic governance of sovereign states and apartheid geopolitical regimes
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Glick: A Winning Strategy for Power, Already Underway!
A look at the necessary aspects of a winning strategy, many of which are already happening now
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Wilson: The Positive Dialectics of Four Hills and RevolutionZ (With No Apologies to Adorno)
Little Big Man. I can’t remember the book (Thomas Berger)...
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Bookchin: Eyewitnesses to the Rojava revolution: hevaltî and dignity
Interview on how the revolution has impacted everyday life in Rojava
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: Participatory Economics 101 | Pt. 2
'What do you want?' is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation, and degradation
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Albert: On Participatory Economics, Pt. 1
'What do you want?' is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation, and degradation
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Albert: The Next American Revolution & Revolutionary Participatory Society 2044
Source: Politics Art Roots Culture – Media Michael Albert is...
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...