Recent Z Commentaries

Does anyone believe that the world’s elite are going to suddenly accept business as usual can no longer go on and willingly give up their enormous privileges?

In the end, there are consequences for our actions and inactions. When events like Hurricane Katrina, or the invasion of Iraq takes place, the eventual fallout is immeasurable

There is no question that activism was having an impact on the First Republic Bank

Our shared future requires faith that whatever lays ahead, small gestures undertaken now – a folded message, a careful planting – are not lost

Here is the complete list of all the countries in the world that do not provide paid maternity leave for women workers: Papua New Guinea, United States of America

Serious debates over what the minimum wage should be in various U.S. locales and jurisdictions should start with serious information on what it actually costs to live in the different places where Americans live

Trump’s ugly and vicious madness, buffoonery, narcissism, and revanchism help make the “mainstream” Big Money candidates Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton look reasonable, responsible, respectable, mature, and trustworthy by comparison

If the Left hopes to win, we’re going to need to organize white working class communities, some of whom will transition from reactionaries to left-wing radicals

The financial industry, in contrast to the mythology it loves to peddle, does not create wealth — it confiscates wealth, attempting to profit off every aspect of human activity

The next time you run into someone who’s the least bit interested in politics, please invite them to your house for a dinner party, not the next local organizing meeting

Landlords behaving badly

Even if humanity were to stop throwing carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere today, a catastrophic rise in sea levels of six meters may be inevitable. Two previous prehistoric interglacial periods, in which the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere was believed to be about what it is today, resulted in dramatic rising of Read more…

This could be the beginning of Resistance of ordinary Greeks

If you are going to support some wars, how do you pick which wars not to support?

When it comes to the pursuit of property, the “rich” U.S. has state socialist Cuba beat hands down. When it comes to human well-being, “poor” Cuba wins just as decisively

As soon as the news broke that Camp Armen was under threat calls for solidarity were shared, leading to a Gezi-like occupation of the site

ICE prefers to circumvent the legal process in order to engage in massive “round-up sweeps” in communities, schools and workplaces

The Beginning of a New Global Financial Crisis?

In turbulent economic times, BRICS will undergird – not undermine – Western financial decadence

The insatiable greed of financiers has reached the point where large corporations are now spending almost all profits on stock buybacks and dividends

A victory for OXI would not just help restore a sense of dignity to Greece; it would strengthen the ground for anti-austerity struggles across Europe

Racial differences in the U.S. cannot be denied, but the greatest tragedy is the lie that we the people do not have a common fight

The world has to drastically reduce its consumption. As this is an impossibility under capitalism, another world is not only possible, it is necessary

While calling Roof a terrorist is important for the historical power it carries, it should be coupled with opposition to the war on terror and more government grabs for repressive powers

Those who accuse the Greeks of “recklessness” are mistaken: the creditors’ utter contempt for democracy left them with no other choice but a rupture.

The mainstream media’s task is to deliver the purchasing power of the largest possible segment of the population to companies with products to sell

Washington runs on corporate and financial cash, connections, reach, and propaganda, not public opinion

Once we realize we don’t need capitalists to make decisions for us, and learn to organize collective self-defense, getting rid of bosses and running enterprises ourselves enters our imagination

Samuel Johnson defines patriotism as “love for one’s country; zeal for one’s country” and scoundrel as “a mean rascal; a low petty villain”

The assault is part of a history of racial violence striking at a central institution of African-American life in the South

At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the depth, degree, and relevance of anti-Black white societal, institutional, and cultural racism in American life

“Free trade” agreements are nothing more than initiatives to cement corporate control over all aspects of society

A default would reduce the value of the Euro further and theoretically provide another boost to exports and the sagging Eurozone economy

The leading hog and corn producer in the nation is already crawling with wannabe presidents

Women’s rights activists in Argentina have revived the slogan that began in Mexico in response to the mass killings of young women in Ciudad Juárez

The corporate media, not secrecy, is actually the more important barrier to fair and open debate

So disastrous has austerity been for Jamaica that its per capita gross domestic product is lower than it was 20 years ago

The public should join postal workers to demand an end to the contracts with Staples and Walmart and an end to postal facility closures

The problem, however, is that a series of concessions, capitulations and betrayals will destroy the state far more rapidly and inevitably than any set of enemies is capable of doing

If there is anywhere deserving of corporate corruption probes to the extent of the FIFA investigation, it is Washington itself

The picture is becoming clearer each day how policing in the United States is so brutally more violent than any other industrialized country

Serious advocates of popular sovereignty should call for – imagine – a new U.S. Constitutional Convention

The more I can help younger activists avoid the pitfalls that I’ve experienced in the past, the better off and more effective they will be in the future

Pundits remark cynically that instead of integrating dynamic tiger economies, ASEAN integration will pool together societies with unsolved, deep-seated social problems

Out of this tragedy, there is an opportunity to have serious conversations about racism, about Black lives matter and to build mass movements

Elected in the brand name of peace, Barack Obama has joked to his White House staff that he is “good at killing people”

Source of life, cause for conflict

Although quakes cannot be prevented, they can be rendered not deadly

Respect for workers will only be won from the bottom up, through collective and militant action

A year’s worth of gross world product is traded in about two weeks on the world’s stock, bond, derivative, futures and foreign-exchange markets