https://znetwork.org/author/jeffcrosby/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Fri, 30 May 2025 16:05:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/jeffcrosby/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defeating-mass-deportations/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defeating-mass-deportations/#respond Fri, 30 May 2025 16:04:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284373 Building powerful, overwhelming resistance to Trump’s mass deportations is the critical battle at the moment. It’s the hook that the New Confederacy (the fascist forces coalesced around Trump, which have inherited the mantle of the Old Confederacy) is hanging its hat on. It’s the one thing they think they can hold onto as Trump’s popularity [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defeating-mass-deportations/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/give-light-and-the-people-will-fight/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/give-light-and-the-people-will-fight/#respond Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:45:23 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281232 In February 2025 in Lynn, Massachusetts, ICE grabbed an 18-year-old high school junior from Nicaragua and put her in a cell in Maine, hours away from her family. She had been involved in a minor argument with her 12-year-old brother over a cell phone and pushed him. A neighbor reported a “domestic dispute,” and the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/give-light-and-the-people-will-fight/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/getting-ready-to-fight-mass-deportations/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/getting-ready-to-fight-mass-deportations/#respond Wed, 08 Jan 2025 19:02:00 +0000 In early December 2024, the New Lynn Coalition and the North Shore Haitian Association rallied an event to counter the racist anti-Haitian lies of the New Confederacy, welcome the Haitian community and direct that community to resources they might need, and begin to coalesce the united front against mass deportations. Initiated in response to Vance [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/getting-ready-to-fight-mass-deportations/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/election-2024-block-build-and-ceasefire/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/election-2024-block-build-and-ceasefire/#respond Fri, 21 Jun 2024 16:45:06 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268196 A recent article by Fred Glass, “Words and History: The Trouble With ‘Genocide Joe” (Stansbury Forum, April 14, 2024)  makes the essential correct argument that defeating Trump and the New Confederacy that Trump represents requires a Biden victory. Glass lays out some of the likely devastating impacts on our peoples of a Trump victory,both the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/election-2024-block-build-and-ceasefire/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-lynn-coalitions-road-to-local-power/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-lynn-coalitions-road-to-local-power/#respond Tue, 06 Jun 2023 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1247221 In a small city “at the easternmost tip of the Rust Belt,” labor and community groups have invested 10 years in building a vehicle for independent political power—and working-class identity. On May Day in Lynn, Massachusetts, unions and working-class community groups turn out to celebrate solidarity and uplift their struggles. The theme of the event [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/new-lynn-coalitions-road-to-local-power/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-ge-workers-walked-out-in-lynn/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-ge-workers-walked-out-in-lynn/#respond Thu, 09 Apr 2020 09:01:42 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1031834 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-ge-workers-walked-out-in-lynn/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/afl-cio-convention-repositions-unions-to-speak-for-all-workers-by-jeff-crosby/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/afl-cio-convention-repositions-unions-to-speak-for-all-workers-by-jeff-crosby/#respond Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:54:58 +0000 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/afl-cio-convention-repositions-unions-to-speak-for-all-workers-by-jeff-crosby/feed/ 0