Recent Z Commentaries
There’s a political vacuum in the American Rust Belt. If the Left fails to fill this void, the Right surely will
President Obama signed an order, kept secret until now, to authorize continuation of the Afghan war for at least another year
Large numbers of Americans do still recurrently form and join great demonstrations and movements of popular protest and resistance
The mystery of where torture came from turns out to be no mystery at all. It came from the prison industrial complex
The Bank’s optimism about redistributiom is not unusual, for it suffers a seriously bad statistical habit: poverty denialism.
Teachers and parents need to ensure that the public school curriculum is animated by a concern for the public
It is pathetic to observe the arrogance of the people, also known as the world elites, who think that they own the planet and do whatever they wish because they own the gun
Austerity is about making the general populace and the working classes pay
What does the general picture on U.S. aggression look like?
We shouldn’t need these pro-child arguments to justify abortion, because choice in reproduction should be a woman’s right
Questioning the dominant agricultural model and fighting for an alternative that places at its core people’s needs and respect for the land, is to get to the heart of the class struggle
Lawmakers over the past three years have dramatically cut access to reproductive health care, state by state
The U.S. Air Force says it is not halting its use of Depleted Uranium weapons, has sent them to the Middle East, and is prepared to use them
Housing justice work doesn’t only provide a solidarity model for keeping people in their homes. It also helps people heal from the trauma of facing the unjust eviction.
Society based on meetings versus society based on domination by a powerful individual
Community revolutions taking place in Venezuela, Greece, Turkey, India, Mexico and beyond are powerful antidotes to the idea that there is no society
Capitalism destroys even when it builds
Can an ancient legal principle with roots in Roman law serve as a tool for the climate protection movement?
China is the world center of wildcat strikes—given that no strike in China is officially allowed under the law
Only organizing can end the patriarchal rule of sexual harassment on our streets and in our communities
Unless we are provided an honest accounting of the disgraceful history of the US war on Vietnam, we will be ill equipped to protest the current and future wars conducted in our name
We all need some civil unrest – a lot actually, on a mass scale, each and every day
Movements around the world are fighting for the right to housing, and challenging private property and banks
On Average, Most of Us Got ONE DOLLAR for Every BILLION DOLLARS of New Wealth
Sometimes the dirtiest of details only come out when one gang of banksters sues another
Smoldering in the detritus of war is also the fourth estate
Students in Mexico victims of brutal violence linked to state and paramilitaries
The tribunal presented a panorama of oppression, but also a panorama of resistance
It is difficult for most white people to appreciate the racial terror with which people of color live
Black resistance and British policy left the colonists no choice but to secede from the British Empire if they wanted to preserve and expand their profitable slave system
Powerful institutions routinely deflect criticism by blaming the middle man, or, even more commonly, the occasional bad apple
US policy toward undocumented immigrants damages women in many ways