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Our Lydia, Your Lydia
From the many emails calls, and kindnesses received, clearly many feel this loss...
Christmas Letter
Lydia Sargent, Live Like Her
Selected Comments Sent to Z
Recent ZNet
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Kelly: Why I Support an International Treaty to Ban Weaponized Drones and Drone Surveillance
Banning weaponized and surveillance drones would enhance our capacity to work toward meeting human needs
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Baroud: Coup Leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi Betrayed Democracy in Burma
Though we must insist that the return to rule by the military in Burma is unacceptable, we must equally demand that Burma embraces true democracy for all of its citizens, regardless of race, ethnicity or religion
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Woll: Biden bombs Syria: ‘Self-defense’ or an act of war?
Please Help ZNet Source: Liberation News...
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Lin: Myanmar Workers and Unions on the Front Lines in Fight Against Coup
Workers in Myanmar have demonstrated that direct actions are powerful and they work
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Thier: The Global South Faces a ‘Vaccine Apartheid’
Just 10 nations have administered 75% of the vaccines worldwide. Countries like South Africa are being left behind
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Wilson: After Seven-Year Battle, Massachusetts Comcast Techs Win First Contract
After voting to form a union seven and a half years ago, Comcast technicians at the Fairhaven, Massachusetts, garage finally have a first contract
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Biden imposed sanctions only on aides to Mohammed bin Salman even though a new intelligence report said that MBS approved the mission on Khashoggi
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Lobet: California’s Small Towns Ready to Fight Big Oil Over Air Quality
After organizing for three years, Lamont and Arvin, two rural communities in the heart of California’s oilfields have won a direct say in reducing the air pollution from oil, gas and agriculture production
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Shabazz: “We Want the Truth Uncovered”
Malcolm X’s Daughter Ilyasah Shabazz Backs New Probe into Assassination
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Camp: It’s Time for Major Wealth Redistribution
No need to be all apologetic about it, either, since we would just be reclaiming the trillions taken by the billionaires
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Kolhatkar: Black Lives Still Don’t Matter in America
A welcome change in national leadership in the U.S. means little for the scourge of racism infecting the nation—unless words are matched by action.
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Saunders: To Honor Black History, Fund Our Front-Line Heroes
Over the last year, some 1.3 million public service jobs, many of them held by African Americans — including nurses, teachers, EMTs and sanitation workers — have evaporated because of holes the pandemic blew open in state and local budgets
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First-Arai: Biden Could Hire Jobless Oil and Gas Workers to Plug Abandoned Oil Wells
There are 3.2 million abandoned oil and gas wells across U.S. land and waters, responsible for emitting 281 kilotons of methane in 2018 — or the equivalent of burning through 16 million barrels of crude oil
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Wilkins: Sanders Warns Biden About Attack on Syria
"Our Constitution is clear that it is Congress, not the president, who has the authority to declare war," the senator asserted.
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Hollar: What Is ‘Moderate’ About Opposing a Minimum Wage Backed by 3/5ths of Voters?
In corporate media, it seems, the minority view that opposes a living wage can also be the “moderate” one—so long as it’s “pragmatically” courting business interests
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Gorky: McDonald’s spies on employees organizing for a living wage
New reports show that McDonald’s has spied on workers “for years” in their effort to combat the Fight for $15 movement that has been struggling for a living wage for nearly a decade
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Scher: Pandemic May Have Left Over 250 Million People With Acute Food Shortages in 2020
As Black and Latinx families experience disproportionate food insecurity, experts warn of famine in dozens of countries
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Entralgo: Covid-19 Caregivers Need Care Too
A new documentary exposes the need for a federal lifeline for child care providers and working mothers
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Cole: Biden’s Double Standards
Iranian Civilians under severe US Sanctions but not accused Saudi Murderer Bin Salman
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The U.S. tops any other country in the world for its number of prisoners – over 2,300,000. China, by contrast, has roughly 200,000 prisoners
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Essa: Palestine Is a ‘Taboo Issue Among Certain Circles in High Places’
Cornel West says he is being denied tenure at Harvard University because of his views on Israeli occupation. There is a long history of attempts to suppress or have outspoken critics of Israel fired from academic posts
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December ZMag
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Chomsky: Class Struggle or Get it in the Neck, Part 1
Unless working people, the general population, take part in the class struggle, they’re going to get it in the neck
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Brecher: The Biden Climate Plan, Part 1
While the Biden plan is not as comprehensive as that proposed in the Democratic primaries by Jay Inslee or as radical as Bernie Sanders’ plan, it has the potential to make very substantial reductions in GHG emissions while creating substantial numbers of climate jobs
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Avery: Human Society And The Biosphere
According to a recent United Nations report, more than a million species of plants and animals are currently threatened with extinction because of human activities
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Kolhatkar: Millions of India’s Farmers Are in a Fight for Their Economic Lives
Photo by PradeepGaurs/Shutterstock.com India’s farmers are revolting against Prime Minister...
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Koehler: Embracing Ecological Realism
We must push our politics beyond the cul-de-sac of so-called political realism
Recent Audio/Videos
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Sanders: Amazon Workers in Alabama Are Fighting for a Union
The fight you are waging will send a message to workers all across the country that if they stand up, stand together, and fight, they can win
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Ocasio-Cortez: AOC Explains Why the Green New Deal Is Necessary
A look at the tenets of the Green New Deal and how important they are especially after the winter storm in Texas
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Herscher: How to Pass the Salt While Maintaining Proper Social Distance
Solving everyday problems using familiar objects in unfamiliar ways
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Emanuele: Indiana Activist with a Community Center gets things done
Interview on sociopolitical issues that needlessly divide us
Recent Blogs
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Wittner: A Rapidly Globalizing World Needs Strengthened Global Governance
The world is currently engulfed in crises—most prominently, a disease...
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Emersberger: Trump’s coup attempt: dangerous for the US and the rest of the world
Trump incited his supporters to violently storm the Capitol Building...
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Emersberger: UN agencies not above playing politics with statistics
It’s clear that technical departments within the UN sometimes have...
Albert Essay Series on Socialist Upsurge
Oldest essays at top, Newest at bottom
New Direction?
Ethics of It / Judging Societies
Society’s Pie / Disputing Pie Slices
Property Problem / Who Decides?
Who Does What? / Balanced Jobs
Disputing Balancing Jobs
Classlessness? / Markets or what?
Participatory Planning
Disputing Participatory Planning
Judging Participatory Socialism
Some Strategic Implications
The Polity / Community and Culture
Gender and Sexuality
Socialism or Participatory Society
Socialism: Ecology or Nothing
Parecon / Parsoc
See also under Vision in the top Menu
Polychroniou: What Is ParEcon?
Albert: Intro to ParEcon
Albert: Parecon's History
Albert: Addressing Criticisms
Albert: Interrogating Parecon
Sargent: Post Sexist Society
Podur: Life After Racism
Peters: Kinship Vision
Shalom: Visionary Pol
Shalom: Future Pol
Albert: Parecon & Parsoc
Albert: 7 Reasons for Parecon
Some Interviews...
Activism and vision
Being Left
Thoughts and Deeds
Online School – SSCC
The second session of School for Social and Cultural Change (SSCC) starts April 1. Sign up is now open. Faculty includes: Michael Albert, Patrick Bond, Ben Burgis, Sandy Carter, Rod Driver, Andrej Grubacic, Kathy Kelly, Eugene Nulman, David Swanson, Jonathan Stribling-Uss, Sean Michael Wilson
Selected RevolutionZ
RevolutionZ Podcast features vision, strategy, and diverse guests, all free via popular podcast apps and our RevolutionZ Archive. Below are some indicative Episodes for instant access.
Replying to Anarchist Critics 1
Talking about Art with Jerry Fresia
Rasmus on Wall Street
Solidarity, Autonomy...
Violence, Democratic Centralism...
The Old Folks Home at the College
Key Strategic Issues
Parecon's History
Emanuele Queries Albert
Persistence, or Pigheadedness?
Win? Or Defeat Ourselves?
Voters' Motives and Left Agendas
What's Next?
Talking About Noam Chomsky
Where Are We with Noam Chomsky
Left Culture and Movement Prospects
Winning Participatory Socialism
Being Radical
A Class Between Labor and Capital
Activism With Vincent Emanuelle
Talking with Noam Chomsky
Selected PARC Videos
PARC and RevolutionZ together host a new online school, SSCC, and we are happy to present a selection of PARC's videocasts here on ZNet.
Albert: Participatory Econ 2 / 1
Oliver Stone: Family, Sex, Hollywood...
Robert Johnson: Organizing 101
Chomsky: Working-Class Culture
Albert: MIT and Elite Institutions
Kelly: Antiwar Activism
Selected Collective 20
Collective 20’s members include Medea Benjamin, Michael Albert, Noam Chomsky, and 14 other writers. Visit collective20.org for a full archive and more.
Overcoming Our Tendencies
Motives and Agendas
What Next
From 2000 Feet
Culture Makes Us Human
Is Socialism a “Failed Idea”?
Greenwashing Capitalism
Live Like Them
Freedom, Responsibility, Alienation
Tomorrow’s World, Today
Selected for Activists
Chomsky: Revitalize Labor
Klare: Biden, Climate, and China
Prashad: Privileges Not Universal
Emanuele: COVID Hurricane
Athanasiou: Paris Agreement
Aguilar: ‘We’re unstoppable’
Ebert: Chile 2021
Benjamin: What Planet NATO?
Konya: Turkey’s student protests
Wolff: A Fake Debate
Early: Rescue the IAFF?
Swanson: Universality
Arauz: Citizens’ Revolution
Gutiérrez: Mexican feminists
Ordower: Movement Infrastructure
Klein: Green New Deal
Spannos: Ken Weller Obituary
Kolhatkar: Brutal Policies
Wolahan: working-class poetics
Soul: Coordinated Strike
D’Aprile: Mutual Aid
Alvarez: Mutual Aid
Bates: Right to Unionize
Varoufakis: Defence of Ken Loach
Wakamo: Union Drives
Emanuele: Defeat White Power
Zimet: Biko
Essential Strike Manifesto
Sainato: US workers go on strike
Emersberger: Ecuador’s Election
Collins: Exit This Road to Ruin?
Solomon: Corporate Democrats
Cassidy: Karen Lewis
Muravchik: Trump’s Democrats
Lang: Indigenous, green movement
Freeman: Greedy grocery giants
Benjamin: Diplomatic Suicide?
Cohen: No Honeymoon for Biden
Meyerson: $15 Is Looking Good
Morocoima: Communal Society
Kuhn: Anarchist Century?
Grubacic: Response to Kuhn
Dolack: Class War Intensifies
Kolhatkar: Amazon Unionizing
Prashad: Myanmar coup
Cozzarelli: Teachers Fight Back
Alimahomed-Wilson: Amazon
Bond: Biden & Climate Catastrophe?
Klikauer: Digital Fascism
Rosenblum: Against Democracy
Camp: Curing Disease Bad Business
Feste:Camp Rhonda
Tan: Resistance in Tech
Grossman: Mutual Aid
Benjamin: Decline and Fall
Chediac: Cancel rents & mortgages
Soren: Reimagining Housing
Bryant: Reimagining Schools
Tabrizi: Biden and Iran
Ocasio-Cortez:Not again
First-Arai: Push to Ban Fracking
Kay: Groups across the South
Olivier: Columbia Students Strike
Armstrong: Avert Genocide
King: Judas and the Black Messiah
Klikauer: The Risk of Capitalism
Pollin: A New New Deal?
Flanders: Latinx Farmworkers
Fresia: Artists&Parecon
Lynd: Handed Workers to Trump
Dispatch: Protests across Poland
Zuboff: Coup We Should Talk About
Solomon: Don’t Grade on a Curve
Pizzigati: GameStop
Raptis: Nazis, ‘Commies’, etc
Henwood: GameStop
DeManuelle-Hall: Ohio Auto Workers
Stout: Alabama workers
Botts: Water Shutoffs
Rasmus: Gamestop
Recent Comments
- Michael on Fauci champions Israeli medical apartheid
- Michael on Cuomo and Newsom Symbolize the Rot of Corporate Democrats — and the Dire Need for Progressive Populism
- Colin Stuart on Ecuador’s pro-mining politics dealt a blow by Indigenous, green movement
- Dennis on The Clash Between the UK and EU Over Northern Ireland
- Michael on Maduro’s Brown New Deal for Venezuela
- Mark Evans on Why Artists Ought to Endorse Parecon
- Mark Evans on Skillful Goal-Oriented Activism: a middle way between reactive activism and debilitating myths?
- Elizabeth Marxsen on Skillful Goal-Oriented Activism: a middle way between reactive activism and debilitating myths?
NAR/RPS
NAR-RPS/2044 Site
Movie Project Page
Albert: Video about Screenplay
Albert: Hollywood On My Mind
Albert: NAR Screenplay
Testimonials / RPS TOC / Interviewees
Albert: RPS Backdrop / Lennon: An Organizer’s Take / Albert: Give RPS A Chance / Mark Evans' Blog / Bertrand Dellinger’s Thoughts / Albert Interviewed