https://znetwork.org/category/contenttype/series/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:39:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/contenttype/series/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-defeat-maga-tyranny-chapters-7-8-goals-and-tactics/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-defeat-maga-tyranny-chapters-7-8-goals-and-tactics/#respond Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1294946 As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingly met with repression in the streets. In this moment, questions of power — who has it, how it is exercised, and how it can be withdrawn — are [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-defeat-maga-tyranny-chapters-7-8-goals-and-tactics/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dancing-with-the-beautiful-people/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dancing-with-the-beautiful-people/#respond Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:51:38 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294855 It was a privilege to sit and stand, to chant and dance a bit. To savour the moment and enjoy vegan chocolates outside the Royal Courts of Justice – the High Court in London yesterday [Friday 13 February]. To celebrate the ruling by Judicial Review that the Home Secretary’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action as [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dancing-with-the-beautiful-people/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-defeat-maga-tyranny-chapters-5-6-timelines-and-organization/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-defeat-maga-tyranny-chapters-5-6-timelines-and-organization/#respond Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:04:05 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1294667 As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingly met with repression in the streets. In this moment, questions of power — who has it, how it is exercised, and how it can be withdrawn — are [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-defeat-maga-tyranny-chapters-5-6-timelines-and-organization/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-defeat-maga-tyranny-chapters-3-4-social-strikes-vs-maga-laying-the-groundwork/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-defeat-maga-tyranny-chapters-3-4-social-strikes-vs-maga-laying-the-groundwork/#respond Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1294452 As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingly met with repression in the streets. In this moment, questions of power — who has it, how it is exercised, and how it can be withdrawn — are [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-defeat-maga-tyranny-chapters-3-4-social-strikes-vs-maga-laying-the-groundwork/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-defeat-maga-tyranny-an-introduction-to-social-strikes/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-defeat-maga-tyranny-an-introduction-to-social-strikes/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1293814 As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingly met with repression in the streets. In this moment, questions of power — who has it, how it is exercised, and how it can be withdrawn — are [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/how-to-defeat-maga-tyranny-an-introduction-to-social-strikes/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/four-elderly-activists-face-charges-for-antiwar-civil-disobedience-in-northampton-massachusetts/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/four-elderly-activists-face-charges-for-antiwar-civil-disobedience-in-northampton-massachusetts/#respond Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:30:53 +0000 Courtrooms create great theater. We recognize the dramatic tension between static, formal systems of protocol that protect vested interests, and the contrary movement – the human passion to tell grim stories without flinching. We live in a country that has evolved as the world’s most rapacious empire by concealing the suffering that transpires beyond the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/four-elderly-activists-face-charges-for-antiwar-civil-disobedience-in-northampton-massachusetts/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/social-strikes-can-general-strikes-mass-strikes-and-people-power-uprisings-provide-a-last-defense-against-maga-tyranny/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/social-strikes-can-general-strikes-mass-strikes-and-people-power-uprisings-provide-a-last-defense-against-maga-tyranny/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:15:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291991 Jeremy Brecher is a co-founder and senior strategic advisor for the Labor Network forSustainability. He is the author of more than fifteen books on labor and social movements,including Strike! Common Preservation in a Time of Mutual Destruction, and The GreenNew Deal from Below. The mission of the Labor Network for Sustainability is to be a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/social-strikes-can-general-strikes-mass-strikes-and-people-power-uprisings-provide-a-last-defense-against-maga-tyranny/feed/ 2 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-movement-based-opposition-to-trump-and-maga-2/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-movement-based-opposition-to-trump-and-maga-2/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289707 As President Donald Trump launches illegal armed attacks against American cities, peaceful civilians, and people in foreign countries that have not attacked the US, it may look like a sign of strength and a harbinger of a future of total domination. But Trump’s turn to such extreme forms of violence is less an expression of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-movement-based-opposition-to-trump-and-maga-2/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-movement-based-opposition-to-trump-and-maga/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-movement-based-opposition-to-trump-and-maga/#respond Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289073 As President Donald Trump launches illegal armed attacks against American cities, peaceful civilians, and people in foreign countries that have not attacked the US, it may look like a sign of strength and a harbinger of a future of total domination. But Trump’s turn to such extreme forms of violence is less an expression of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-movement-based-opposition-to-trump-and-maga/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/considering-marxs-ideas-of-a-non-alienated-labor-and-life-as-a-basis-for-a-socialist-humanist-and-feminist-alternative-to-capitalism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/considering-marxs-ideas-of-a-non-alienated-labor-and-life-as-a-basis-for-a-socialist-humanist-and-feminist-alternative-to-capitalism/#respond Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:13:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287750 [This article is part of a short series on Marxism and its relevance for left resistance in today’s challenging geopolitical and ecological climate, and for the continuing effort to win a better world beyond immediate crises. A previous ZNetwork article written by Michael Albert, entitled Should Our Resistance Enrich or Transcend Marxism?, was the catalyst for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/considering-marxs-ideas-of-a-non-alienated-labor-and-life-as-a-basis-for-a-socialist-humanist-and-feminist-alternative-to-capitalism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-paths-that-brought-me-to-marxism-a-sort-of-response-to-michael-albert/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-paths-that-brought-me-to-marxism-a-sort-of-response-to-michael-albert/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:09:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287550 [This article is part of a short series on Marxism and its relevance for left resistance in today’s challenging geopolitical and ecological climate, and for the continuing effort to win a better world beyond immediate crises. A previous ZNetwork article written by Michael Albert, entitled Should Our Resistance Enrich or Transcend Marxism?, was the catalyst for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-paths-that-brought-me-to-marxism-a-sort-of-response-to-michael-albert/feed/ 5 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/should-our-resistance-enrich-or-transcend-marxism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/should-our-resistance-enrich-or-transcend-marxism/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:01:00 +0000 [This article is part of a short series on Marxism and its relevance for left resistance in today’s challenging geopolitical and ecological climate, and for the continuing effort to win a better world beyond immediate crises. This article acts as the catalyst for the series, with the subsequent articles using it as their jumping off [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/should-our-resistance-enrich-or-transcend-marxism/feed/ 7 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/activist-diary-7-david-and-goliath-northampton-activists-want-munitions-icon-l3-harris-to-leave-town/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/activist-diary-7-david-and-goliath-northampton-activists-want-munitions-icon-l3-harris-to-leave-town/#respond Mon, 19 May 2025 17:56:42 +0000 You might survive a nuclear strike, but I won’t. I live on the Sharpie X that some foreign general scratched upon the globe. Maybe all of us not residing in Hiroshima or Nagasaki suffer from an imaginative deficit when it comes to matters of mushroom clouds, slow radiation deaths, and the lucky creatures instantly vaporized. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/activist-diary-7-david-and-goliath-northampton-activists-want-munitions-icon-l3-harris-to-leave-town/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/program-for-social-self-defense-what-it-is-defending/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/program-for-social-self-defense-what-it-is-defending/#respond Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:02:00 +0000 Part 7 of this series contains the following chapters: 9. A Constructive Program for Social Self-Defense10. What Social Self-Defense Is Defending Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network for Sustainability, co-published by ZNetwork.org. Click here to read the report in full: Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/program-for-social-self-defense-what-it-is-defending/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/non-electoral-opposition-the-social-strike/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/non-electoral-opposition-the-social-strike/#respond Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:02:00 +0000 Part 6 of this series contains the following chapters: 7. Non-Electoral Opposition8. The Social Strike Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network for Sustainability, co-published by ZNetwork.org. Click here to read the report in full: Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action Non-Electoral Opposition If the Democratic Party [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/non-electoral-opposition-the-social-strike/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/electoral-opposition/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/electoral-opposition/#respond Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:02:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277919 Part 5 of this series contains the following chapter: 6. Electoral Opposition Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network for Sustainability, co-published by ZNetwork.org. Click here to read the report in full: Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action Electoral Opposition Even when, as in Milosevich’s Serbia or [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/electoral-opposition/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/strategy-for-social-self-defense/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/strategy-for-social-self-defense/#respond Sat, 04 Jan 2025 17:02:00 +0000 Part 4 of this series contains the following chapter: 5. Strategy for Social Self-Defense Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network for Sustainability, co-published by ZNetwork.org. Click here to read the report in full: Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action Strategy for Social Self-Defense French Prime Minister George [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/strategy-for-social-self-defense/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/social-self-defense-in-the-first-trump-regime/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/social-self-defense-in-the-first-trump-regime/#respond Fri, 03 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000 Part 3 of this series contains the following chapter: 4. Social Self-Defense in the First Trump Regime Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network for Sustainability, co-published by ZNetwork.org. Click here to read the report in full: Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action Social Self-Defense in the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/social-self-defense-in-the-first-trump-regime/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-we-must-prepare-for/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-we-must-prepare-for/#respond Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:02:00 +0000 Part 2 of this series contains the following chapter: 3. What We Must Prepare For Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network for Sustainability, co-published by ZNetwork.org. Click here to read the report in full: Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action What We Must Prepare [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-we-must-prepare-for/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defending-society-against-maga-tyranny-a-prospectus-for-action-part-1-social-self-defense/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defending-society-against-maga-tyranny-a-prospectus-for-action-part-1-social-self-defense/#respond Wed, 01 Jan 2025 06:11:29 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277824 Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network for Sustainability, co-published by ZNetwork.org. Part 1 of this series contains the following chapters: Click here to read the report in full: Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action Or, download the PDF here. 1. Prologue: Social [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defending-society-against-maga-tyranny-a-prospectus-for-action-part-1-social-self-defense/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defending-society-against-maga-tyranny-a-prospectus-for-action/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defending-society-against-maga-tyranny-a-prospectus-for-action/#respond Wed, 01 Jan 2025 06:00:08 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277826 By Jeremy Brecher A Report from the Labor Network for Sustainability, Co-published by ZNetwork.org January 1, 2025 Click to download the PDF of this report. Jeremy Brecher is a co-founder and senior strategic advisor for the Labor Network for Sustainability. He is the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defending-society-against-maga-tyranny-a-prospectus-for-action/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/activist-diary-6-first-aid-drop-to-western-north-carolina/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/activist-diary-6-first-aid-drop-to-western-north-carolina/#respond Fri, 25 Oct 2024 15:31:30 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1274191 Hurricane Helene killed at least 230 people across six states in the southeastern United States. Western North Carolina was especially devastated, with 95 people reported killed at the time of this writing. The city of Asheville, and particularly its outer limits, has suffered loss of life and collapse of infrastructure. Chapters of the Democratic Socialists [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/activist-diary-6-first-aid-drop-to-western-north-carolina/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/youve-got-my-vote-h-f-valentine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/youve-got-my-vote-h-f-valentine/#respond Tue, 15 Oct 2024 16:01:00 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1057757 Ahead of the 2024 US presidential elections, we at ZNetwork thought that now might be a good time to remind all our readers of an original series we ran back in 2022 called Don’t Think of a Republican. The series selected excerpts from a book by Lonnie Ray Atkinson entitled “Don’t Think Of A Republican – [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/youve-got-my-vote-h-f-valentine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-democratic-economy-in-a-new-ireland/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-democratic-economy-in-a-new-ireland/#respond Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:37:56 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273430 [This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing the reunification of Ireland but within the context of early 21st Century ills such as the climate crisis, capitalism and fascism. If you like what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-democratic-economy-in-a-new-ireland/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-ireland-owned-and-run-by-the-ordinary-people-not-the-profiteers/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-ireland-owned-and-run-by-the-ordinary-people-not-the-profiteers/#respond Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272730 [This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing the reunification of Ireland but within the context of early 21st Century ills such as the climate crisis, capitalism and fascism. If you like what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-ireland-owned-and-run-by-the-ordinary-people-not-the-profiteers/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/activist-diary-5-running-with-the-prison-vans-at-southwark/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/activist-diary-5-running-with-the-prison-vans-at-southwark/#comments Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272718 [This article is part of ZNetwork.org‘s series, Activist Diaries.] My chest is still sore like having done too many push-ups, or taken a knock. It’s from the shoves of the police “Get back” as they surround the vans leaving Court but we find a way to flow through them and tap the sides to communicate our support for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/activist-diary-5-running-with-the-prison-vans-at-southwark/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reunification-a-roadmap-to-eco-social-transformation-on-the-island-of-ireland/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reunification-a-roadmap-to-eco-social-transformation-on-the-island-of-ireland/#respond Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:40:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272442 [This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing the reunification of Ireland but within the context of early 21st Century ills such as the climate crisis, capitalism and fascism. If you like what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/reunification-a-roadmap-to-eco-social-transformation-on-the-island-of-ireland/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/environmental-justice-before-during-and-after-a-united-ireland/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/environmental-justice-before-during-and-after-a-united-ireland/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:27:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272118 [This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing the reunification of Ireland but within the context of early 21st Century ills such as the climate crisis, capitalism and fascism. If you like what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/environmental-justice-before-during-and-after-a-united-ireland/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/next-american-revolution-16-2048-and-beyond/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/next-american-revolution-16-2048-and-beyond/#comments Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:46:13 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1271759 In which Senator Malcolm King, Celia Lopez, Lydia Luxemburg, and Bert Dellinger discuss electoral participation and purpose and RPS’s major victory. Elections: Avoiding the Pitfalls Malcolm, [from an interview years before running for President] what have your various campaigns and holding office as a Senator in Massachusetts taught you about the pitfalls and benefits of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/next-american-revolution-16-2048-and-beyond/feed/ 2 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/role-of-the-irish-people-in-the-wider-world/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/role-of-the-irish-people-in-the-wider-world/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1271723 [This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing the reunification of Ireland but within the context of early 21st Century ills such as the climate crisis, capitalism and fascism. If you like what [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/role-of-the-irish-people-in-the-wider-world/feed/ 0