The latest content addressing vision & strategy where vision & strategy concerns the issues of what dissenters from existing relations want and how they seek to win it. This includes content relating to alternatives to existing institutions and systems, as well as projects, programmes and activism that show different ways of imagining society as it exists now.
A recent New York Times editorial by Tim Wu, a former antitrust adviser for the Biden administration, caught my eye for the criticism it leveled…
Sam Gindin is one of the most exacting and capacious thinkers on the socialist Left today. With decades of experience in the…
In this run-up to the 2026 mid-term elections, progressive movements and candidates remain caught up in the challenges of rising authoritarianism and…
Although the temper tantrums of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu dominated mass media coverage of the 81st session of the UN General…
With a few honorable exceptions, Democrats have done little to resist Trump’s juggernaut or to present an alternative program to meet the…
When I tell people I’m interested in the politics of forgiveness, that often surprises them: the idea sounds bad and moralistic. I invite…
“Only dangerous fanatics refuse to compromise,” my mother used to tell me. And so, several decades later, I entered government ready to…
After the collapse of state infrastructure and services amid war in Sudan, mutual aid networks stepped up to fill the gaps in…
As the Left epitomized by the Democratic Socialists of America resurges and Marxist thought returns to the fore, as a real force,…
This (quite long), article continued the sequence that excerpts from the seven author book Liberating Theory, published forty years ago. This time…
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