If you are not yet a Z Sustainer please become one to help us monthly. One time donations are great too! Please also access the Podcast RevolutionZ and consider aiding it.
Navigate
Hello
Welcome to ZCommunications. The site has ZNet and ZMag content, topic and place pages under the Focuses link in the top menu - reading lists and whole books, debates, interviews, multimedia, Blogs, comments, a Store, a Sustainer program and more.
Relating to Z
To participate more deeply and generally in ZCommunications, please become a Sustainer. Sustainers who log in will see "+ New" in the black band at the top. Use that to add a blog post. Sustainers can comment on all content! Sustainers, please also upload a photo, using options in the left menu for "Your Account." There you can also change your settings, etc.
You can Help Z in many ways, one time donations, becoming a Sustainer, using our Store, etc. Just click Help Z.
If you have ideas or problems please send them to sysop@zmag.org
"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." - Rep. John Lewis
Join our free mailing list
Recent ZNet
-
Rasmus: Biden’s ‘American Rescue Plan’ & Its Opponents
Biden and the Democrats are thus confronted with making the same error that the Obama administration did in early 2009—not providing a sufficient fiscal stimulus to generate a sustained recovery
-
Marcetic: We Should Cause Trouble, Not Make Nice With Biden
History suggests that it’s not making friends, but making the administration’s life difficult, that gets results for the Left
-
Theoharis: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s True Legacy
The Earth Does Not Belong to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk
-
Baroud: By ‘Force and Fraud’: Is This the End of the US Democracy Doctrine?
Unquestionably, the storming of US Congress will have global repercussions, not least among them the weakening of US hegemonic and self-serving definition of what constitutes a democracy
-
First-Arai: Republicans Are Using Capitol Breach as Excuse to Promote Anti-Protest Bills
Legal advocates say the proposed laws will do nothing to curb white supremacist violence, and will instead grant law enforcement increasing discretion and pressure to crack down on and harshly sentence progressive activists
-
The new nuclear weapons are designed to not only win the arms race, but to intimidate other nations and even “win” a nuclear war
-
I know we can finish the work of Dr. King, together. We must if we are to survive this terrible hate. The choice lies within each of our hearts.
-
Driver: Toxic Sludge is Good for You – Corporate Propaganda and Public Relations
Most people are simply unaware of the scale of the manipulation, and the extent to which businesses influence governments and their citizens
-
Lexchin: Big Pharma Is Fighting to Deny Canadians Access to Treatment
It’s time to stand up big pharma bullying and implement universal pharmacare so everyone can get the treatment they need
-
Queally: ‘A Jim Crow Relic That Must Be Abolished’: Demand to End Filibuster Grows
"Do Senate Democrats want to keep the filibuster or do they want to pass comprehensive democracy, anti-corruption, and voting rights legislation to realize the promise of a multi-racial democracy?"
-
Over slow generations, they built a broad enough “we” and an effective bottom up force that formed not just a victorious voting block this year, but a caring community dedicated explicitly to dismantling white supremacy
-
Giroux: Downplaying Trumpism Is Dangerous
Trumpism is a worldview that defines culture as a battleground of losers and winners, a world in which everything is rigged against whites
-
The far right has come out in support of Trump. After the failed coup attempt of January 6, what’s next?
-
How Contract Negotiations in 2021 Could Be Flashpoints in the U.S. Class Struggle
-
Nichols: Last Trump sale of public lands for fracking prompts outrage and hope
President-elect Biden must follow through with commitment to ban sale of public lands for fracking, put climate, justice, public lands first
-
Todd: ‘Deaths of despair’ point to working-class calamity
Many working-class Americans, and Canadians, are falling rapidly to ‘deaths of despair,’ characterized by suicide and chronic drug and alcohol use
-
Salk: Would You Patent the Sun?
Polio Vaccine Inventor Jonas Salk’s Son Urges More Access to COVID Vaccine
-
Cole: Pompeo passed ‘Death Sentence’ for Millions in Yemen
Also poisoned Biden’s well in Cuba, China, Iran
-
Scher: Illinois Will End Cash Bail — and Limit Use of High-Tech Incarceration
Reformers typically propose predictive algorithms and electronic monitoring as alternatives to money bail. Illinois is different
-
Sainato: Billionaires add $1tn to net worth during pandemic as their workers struggle
Companies’ attempts at hazard pay have been paltry and fleeting as employees are threatened for protesting working conditions
Help Z Communications
If you are a Sustainer please use the menu on the left side of this page to update your information. If you are not a Sustainer, please consider becoming one. Otherwise, perhaps make a one time donation. Thank you!
December ZMag
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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...
-
Koehler: Embracing Ecological Realism
We must push our politics beyond the cul-de-sac of so-called political realism
Recent Audio/Videos
-
Ocasio-Cortez: What happens after the Capitol attacks?
Congress must vote to impeach and remove Donald Trump. This isn't a complicated vote. It's a matter of right or wrong. You're either with the People or you're with that mob.
-
Monbiot: Brexit: Capitalism’s Civil War
“Farage and his ilk are just tools of something much bigger & much deeper than they are”
-
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
Recent Blogs
-
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...
-
Emersberger: UN agencies not above playing politics with statistics
It’s clear that technical departments within the UN sometimes have...
-
Emersberger: Reassessing the Leopoldo López trial of 2014-15
One of the reasons people may get duped into seeing...
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
Our Lydia, Your Lydia
From the many emails calls, and kindnesses received, clearly many feel this loss...
Albert: Christmas Letter
Albert: Lydia Sargent, Live Like Her
Selected Comments Sent to Z
New Online School
PARC and RevolutionZ host School for Social and Cultural Change (SSCC). First courses Jan 1. Sign up now:
- Life After Capitalism by Michael Albert
- Revolt and Transcendence in Popular Music by Sandy Carter
- Societies Against the State by Andrej Grubacic
- Encrypt by Any Means Necessary by Jon S. Uss
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.
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
Violence? with Kathy Kelly
Dealing with Differences
A Class Between Labor and Capital
Talking About Writing
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.
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
Flanders: Learn From Georgia
Feffer: America and the Mob
Wilson: Swarming Solidarity
Todd: ‘Deaths of despair’
Scher: End Cash Bail
Pearson: Abortion Rights
MacLeod: Tech Giants’ Power Is Scary
Fitz: Two Principles of Racial Equity
Camp: Violent Mobs
Mellins: Tax the Rich
Queally: Next Global Strikes
Prashad: Where Liberty Is a Statue
Bello: Neoliberalism Fueled Trump
Falk: Twitter: Why We Should Worry
Patnaik: People going hungry
Ellis-Petersen: Mass protests winning
Benjamin: Outrage Against Cuba
Solomon: Progressives and Fascism
Benjamin: Coup Plotter Nuland
Biden’s China Conundrum
Emanuele: Global Labor Solidarity
Anderson: Market-Driven Education
Astore: POW Nation
Cook: Twitter’s ban on Trump
Corbyn: Build a Better Future
Macfarlane: Make-or-break year
Santos: Trump won’t take cyanide
Solomon: Progressive Policies
Prins: Financial Worlds
Albert: A Brief Query
Cole: Yes, it Was a Coup Attempt
Nader: Can Justice Overtake Trump?
Buyniski: Big Tech
Moore: 7 Critical Truths
Davis: Riot on the Hill
Feffer: Boycott, Purge, Prosecute
Street: Failed Fascist Coup
Chomsky: Avert Disaster
Devereaux: Planned but Ignored
Friedman: Keep On Keeping On
Bello: U.S. Enters Weimar Era
Sirota: Insurrection Predictable
Seymour: English Left in retrospect
Raptis: Nazis, Commies, etc (Part 1)
Johnson: Think Big
Nolan: Unionize Big Tech
Chomsky: Life on Earth
Rios-Jara: Student activism
Pizzigati: Ring a Global Alarm
Lippy: Security Culture
Cook: Assange wins
Robinson: “Victory for Julian”
Schivone: Rebel Cops
Moore: Police Culture
Ottenberg: People in Debt
Solomon:Fight Neoliberal Democrats
Rovics: Dear Proud Boys (CC: ANTIFA)
Latham: 3 prior pandemics
Albert: Parecon, Ecology, & Anarchism
Cook: Antisemitism Industry
Raymond: Mutual Aid Organizers
CRB: Cancel the Rents
Finn: Burned the House Down
Jacobs: Facebook and the Street
Klikauer: Austerity Re-Shapes Work
Wetzel: “The Rank and File Strategy”
Recent Comments
- Paulo Rodriguez on Overcoming Our Suicidal Tendencies
- Michael on Two Principles of Racial Equity that Outrage Liberals
- Michael on The Country Where Liberty Is a Statue
- David Dobereiner on President Biden’s China Conundrum
- John reynolds on McConnell Cynically used the Trump-Monster to get Tax Cuts and SCOTUS, Now Dropping him like a Squeezed Orange
- Kread on Denouncing Republican Evils While Demanding Progressive Policies
- Michael on America Has Entered the Weimar Era
- Michael on America Has Entered the Weimar Era
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