Growing inequality, trivial and alienating labor, and environmental despoliation—these are the things we have witnessed

Richmond progressives have succeeded because, with patience and persistence, they built a political organization which functions year round, not just at election time

Interview on he building of a what is very likely the most successful progressive political organization, The Richmond Progressive Alliance, in Richmond, California, a blue collar city long dominated by Chevron Corp

The first thing to understand about colleges and universities is that they are workplaces

If the reality of global inequality inspires what Antonio Gramsci famously called “pessimism of the intellect,” the real work must begin with what he called “optimism of the will”—the undaunted commitment that drives radical change

The word “socialism” no longer has a deeply negative connotation

Living was difficult where Geraldine was born, and no bed or roses in the factory town where she spent her adult life

Instead of the accumulation of money capital as the motor force of the system, substitute the accumulation of dead enemy bodies

One of the achievements of all of these currents and agitations has been the gradual demolition of the worldview of the colonizers and imperialists

Most struggles by working people to improve their lives have accepted the employer’s right to rule and have limited their demands to wages, hours, and conditions of employment