Join our free mailing list

Recent ZNet

• 

  Winslow: The End of the Era: Nineteen Nineteen

  The workers’ mood had shifted steadily to the left in the strike wave of the decade just ending, resulting in the growth of class consciousness and little interest in cooperation with employers
• 

  Klare: Insignia, Badges, and Medals for a Climate-Wracked Era

  The U.S. Military on a Planet From Hell
• 

  Baker: Trump Raising Taxes on Middle-Class Consumers With Trade War

  Usually, presidents don’t want to be boasting about raising taxes on the middle class in an election year, but apparently Trump feels differently
• 

  Grossman: Big Rallies and Big Differences

  Looking out my window at the wide Karl Marx Allee...
• 

  Bricmont: France’s Pension Reform Met with Massive Protests and Strikes

  Millions are protesting the new pension reform, which will force private sector workers to work beyond retirement age in order to gain their full pension rights. Trains, public transport, schools are shut
• Törnwall: How Sweden does it

  Sweden Provides Free Higher Education, Universal Healthcare, Free Daycare — Why Can’t the U.S.?
• Fang: U.S. Lobbyists Prepare for Brexit

  U.S. Lobbyists Prepare to Seize “Historic Opportunity” in Tory-Led Brexit to Shred Consumer Safeguards, Raise Drug Prices
• Koehler: Envisioning a united world

  Can we envision a world in which bombing Libya or Iraq is as unimaginable as bombing Iowa?
• des Travailleurs: Strikes Urging Withdrawal of Pension ‘Reform’ Continue

  All the workers share this view: “What we want is its withdrawal.” They will say so forcefully, once again, on 10 December.
• Oram: Dollar Meals and Diabetes

  Logan County is ground zero for another battle—the struggle to survive in a region with the highest rates of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) in the country
• 

  Raina: Godzilla

  I never thought I would see Godzilla in town. But...
• 

  Rasmus: On Those Questionable Jobs Numbers….Again!

  It’s a statistical manipulation–based on a series of complex assumptions and even more complex mathematical formula adjustments of the raw jobs data–that gets reported monthly as the job numbers
• 

  Jamail: Savoring What Remains

  Taking in a Climate-Changed World
• Jorden: Last Straw as Teachers in France Join Nationwide Strike

  The “coup de grâce” for teachers was the Macron administration’s proposed teacher pension reform, in which retirement payments would be calculated based upon salaries earned throughout a teacher’s career rather than their last paychecks
• Levitz: Jobs, Jobs Everywhere, But Most of Them Kind of Suck

  Gallup asked 6,600 U.S. workers what they saw as the defining characteristics of a “good” job, then used their answers to construct a “job-quality index.” As measured by the index only 40 percent of Americans currently have “good” jobs
• 

  Falk: Learning from Others (about racism in German and the American South)

  A look at Susan Neiman's book, Learning from Others: Race and the Problem of Evil (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019)
• Zaitchik: Can Latin America Reject Oil, Ranching, and Mining?

  “In both Bolivia and Brazil, the forests are in flames.”
• 

  Zibechi: Elections or autonomy?

  Notes from a Trawün Mapuche in Chile
• 

  Cole: Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Wag the Dog Move

  Moves to Annex 25% of Palestinian West Bank
• Sale: Political Collapse: The Center Cannot Hold

  Given the turmoil over wars and immigration threats, it is not surprising that half the world is without coherent government.
• Nakabuye: “It’s Our Future”

  Interview with two youth climate strikers
• for Europe: A Blueprint for Europe’s Just Transition

  Green New Deal for Europe is launching a comprehensive policy vision to decarbonize the EU by 2030 and deliver environmental justice around the world
• 

  Hasan: Facebook Is an Engine of Anti-Muslim Hate the World Over

  Mark Zuckerberg, you know all this. You do. You can’t plead ignorance