https://znetwork.org/category/topic/vision-strategy/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:04:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/topic/vision-strategy/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/social-democracy-won-the-century-and-lost-the-future/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/social-democracy-won-the-century-and-lost-the-future/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:04:28 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1304075 On Sunday, Sweden’s Social Democratic Party (SAP) emerged as the largest party in an election that will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. Magdalena Andersson is poised to return as prime minister, with her four-party bloc holding a one-seat majority in a 349-seat Riksdag. The SAP won just 28 percent of the vote, its [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/social-democracy-won-the-century-and-lost-the-future/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/between-the-usa-state-inc-and-chinas-party-state-ai-as-a-litmus-test/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/between-the-usa-state-inc-and-chinas-party-state-ai-as-a-litmus-test/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:54:09 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1304070 The end of the Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe was hailed as the great universal consolidation of capitalism, considered the “natural” way to organize the economy and society—the end of history. The philosophy of capitalism became the only viable way of life. Beginning in 1991, Yugoslavia was subjected to violent aggression [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/between-the-usa-state-inc-and-chinas-party-state-ai-as-a-litmus-test/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/like-being-let-out-of-a-cage-what-the-pittston-strike-can-teach-us-about-faith-building-community-and-democracy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/like-being-let-out-of-a-cage-what-the-pittston-strike-can-teach-us-about-faith-building-community-and-democracy/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:52:11 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1304074 Sept. 16, 1989, was a hot late-summer day in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Rev. Jim Sessions couldn’t sleep. He had a lot to be nervous about. The next morning, Sessions would drive two hours into the coalfields of southwest Virginia to participate in an act of non-violent resistance weeks in the making. The action, known as [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/like-being-let-out-of-a-cage-what-the-pittston-strike-can-teach-us-about-faith-building-community-and-democracy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gendering-the-world-system-women-class-and-the-global-division-of-labor/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gendering-the-world-system-women-class-and-the-global-division-of-labor/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:35:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1304066 Which World Does the Woman Question Belong To? The woman question cannot be explained within the bounds of a single nation or the gender relations of one society alone. Family structure, labor markets, wages, property, care work, migration, and the many forms of gender inequality all take shape within particular societies. But these relations do [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/gendering-the-world-system-women-class-and-the-global-division-of-labor/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/super-intelligent-ai-wont-kill-us-dumb-billionaires-are-doing-that-all-by-themselves/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/super-intelligent-ai-wont-kill-us-dumb-billionaires-are-doing-that-all-by-themselves/#respond Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303954 The super-rich have already screwed up the planet in their pursuit of power and profit. AI simply gives them a new tool to hasten their story – and ours – to its dramatic finale It is extremely difficult for ordinary people, myself very much included, to assess what is at stake with the rapid advances [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/super-intelligent-ai-wont-kill-us-dumb-billionaires-are-doing-that-all-by-themselves/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-portrait-of-how-workers-build-a-strike/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-portrait-of-how-workers-build-a-strike/#respond Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:48:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303944 Who Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wrestle with a different version of victory than they expected. I was at a Crotona Park barbecue in the South Bronx to celebrate my [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-portrait-of-how-workers-build-a-strike/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-ro-khanna-and-aoc-should-run-for-president-in-2028/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-ro-khanna-and-aoc-should-run-for-president-in-2028/#respond Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303853 Fifteen years ago, during President Obama’s first term, we co-founded RootsAction as an online progressive group challenging not only Republicans but also the corporatism and militarism of the Democratic Party. RootsAction supported Bernie Sanders for president in 2016 and 2020. Two years before the 2024 election disaster that returned Donald Trump to the White House, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-ro-khanna-and-aoc-should-run-for-president-in-2028/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liberating-theory-economics-class/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liberating-theory-economics-class/#respond Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303851 This article continues a sequence taken from a book, Liberating Theory, published forty years ago. Its seven co-authors felt that a successful left in the U.S. needed what some of us called a shared conceptual toolbox for conceiving, judging, and enacting strategy and vision suitable to win fundamental change in our future. We sought to combine insights [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liberating-theory-economics-class/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-would-a-more-democratic-job-search-look-like/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-would-a-more-democratic-job-search-look-like/#respond Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:24:59 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303796 The job search is often described as though it were a private problem. Update the résumé. Search harder. Apply to more positions. Improve your interview skills. Learn another software program. Network. Follow up. Try again. There is truth in all of this. But it also leaves something important out. A person looking for work does [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/what-would-a-more-democratic-job-search-look-like/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-can-tech-workers-defeat-the-oligarchy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-can-tech-workers-defeat-the-oligarchy/#respond Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:44:17 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303773 Eric Blanc: What is the overall state of tech worker organizing under Trump 2.0? It seems like lots of people must be angry with their companies’ capitulation to Trump but I imagine the fear factor is also a lot higher today. JS Tan: Yes, we’re hearing from fellow organizers and tech workers that there are many people, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-can-tech-workers-defeat-the-oligarchy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-revolution-will-be-computational/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-revolution-will-be-computational/#respond Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:27:26 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303765 The next great political revolution may not begin with a crowd in a square. It may begin with a network of ordinary people acquiring computational capabilities that were previously reserved for governments, corporations and large institutions.  For centuries, political organisation was constrained by the limits of human coordination. A community could debate, but only a [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-revolution-will-be-computational/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/anti-imperialism-and-the-left-in-2026/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/anti-imperialism-and-the-left-in-2026/#respond Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303620 Manijeh Maradian is a founder of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective and the author of This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States.  The homepage of the website for the Collective makes the group’s position quite clear: it rejects US imperialism, its war on Iran and the repression of the current Iranian government.  It [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/anti-imperialism-and-the-left-in-2026/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-impossible-will-take-a-little-while-the-power-of-persistence/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-impossible-will-take-a-little-while-the-power-of-persistence/#respond Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303618 We live in a time fraught with bad news: assaults on democracy, climate disasters, crippling inequality, and an endless proliferation of lies. The pace of the daily outrages reminds me of a moment from Art Spiegelman’s Maus. The Spiegelman character asks his father, a concentration camp survivor, what it felt like to be in the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-impossible-will-take-a-little-while-the-power-of-persistence/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-shift-in-europe-from-right-to-left-is-possible/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-shift-in-europe-from-right-to-left-is-possible/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303619 In several European countries, parliamentary and presidential elections have become the scene of a historic contest between right-wing and left-wing forces. In Germany, state elections are underway, and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has surpassed all progressive parties in one of the states. In Sweden, the parliamentary election on September 13 is taking place [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-shift-in-europe-from-right-to-left-is-possible/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tech-billionaires-the-ai-threat-and-resistance/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tech-billionaires-the-ai-threat-and-resistance/#respond Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:08:11 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303604 Silicon Valley tech billionaires hold fanciful ideas. For example, many believe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will be realized in the very near future and its achievement will usher in an era of plenty, with trillions of sentient beings contentedly populating the heavens. However, underpinning such ideas is a serious and destructive political agenda. Using their [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/tech-billionaires-the-ai-threat-and-resistance/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/three-sets-a-model-for-the-united-front/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/three-sets-a-model-for-the-united-front/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:08:27 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303583 Drawing on a pair of visualizations found in two well-known books of history, this sketch aims to reinforce a certain way of seeing past incarnations of the Left in the United States. That is to say, a certain way of understanding how these incarnations worked and successfully exerted the power to change the world. In [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/three-sets-a-model-for-the-united-front/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nonviolent-solutions-are-everywhere-and-theyre-already-working/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nonviolent-solutions-are-everywhere-and-theyre-already-working/#respond Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:04:04 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303585 Nonviolent solutions are everywhere! Tens of thousands of people are joining the annual Campaign Nonviolence Action Days from September 21 to October 2. For 13 years, Campaign Nonviolence has been rallying tens of thousands of people each year to take action to build a culture of peace and active nonviolence, free from war, poverty, racism, and environmental [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nonviolent-solutions-are-everywhere-and-theyre-already-working/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-data-center-resistance-a-new-vehicle-for-multiracial-democracy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-data-center-resistance-a-new-vehicle-for-multiracial-democracy/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:38:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303578 When it comes to data centers, Americans are increasingly polling like a Dr. Seuss book. We would not like them here or there. We would not like them anywhere. Across partisan lines, politicians have gotten the message. Sure, Trump has called those who oppose data centers “backwards and poor.” Yet many other Republicans are warning that not taking [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/is-data-center-resistance-a-new-vehicle-for-multiracial-democracy/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-change-why-big-change-how-why-vision/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-change-why-big-change-how-why-vision/#respond Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303499 Is revolution a single event? Or is it a process? Perhaps a process made possible by the many gaining certain invaluable insights into their own conditions in relation to society’s reigning institutions, acting together on them, and staying collectively and strategically committed to positive transformation for the many. But does it stop there? Does revolution [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-change-why-big-change-how-why-vision/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/germany-just-broke-the-eus-firewall/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/germany-just-broke-the-eus-firewall/#respond Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1303513 In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the political fallout from the AfD’s electoral breakthrough in Germany, debunk the establishment myth of how Hitler came to power in order to draw alarming parallels to what is happening with the AfD today, and reveal why the European Union’s current structure is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/germany-just-broke-the-eus-firewall/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-minnesota-unions-and-community-groups-stood-up-to-an-ice-occupation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-minnesota-unions-and-community-groups-stood-up-to-an-ice-occupation/#respond Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303553 In this excerpt from the new book This Is How We Win: A Guide to Building Working-Class Uprisings, SEIU Local 26 President Greg Nammacher describes how his union, its members battered and exhausted from ICE attacks, went on the offensive against a federal occupation of Minnesota. -Editors Trump’s Operation Metro Surge was a direct attack [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-minnesota-unions-and-community-groups-stood-up-to-an-ice-occupation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liberation-internationalism-against-the-war-regime-part-two/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liberation-internationalism-against-the-war-regime-part-two/#respond Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:18:05 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303396 In the second part of our interview with Italian philosopher and professor of political theory Sandro Mezzadra, we discussed a range of topics, from the destruction and consequences caused by the “War Regime” in Afghanistan, particularly the 2014 Shengal Genocide attack by ISIS, to the wars escalated across the Greater Middle East and the genocidal [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liberation-internationalism-against-the-war-regime-part-two/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liberating-theory-gender/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liberating-theory-gender/#respond Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303341 This essay continues an ideology sequence excerpted from the book, Liberating Theory, which myself, Leslie Cagan, Noam Chomsky, Robin Hahnel, Mel King, Lydia Sargent, and Holly Sklar co-wrote. The prior What Is To Be Undone part of the whole ideology sequence presented and rejected Classical Marxism, Leninism, and the Bolshevik Revolution as useful guides for activism. It went [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liberating-theory-gender/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-indigenous-protected-areas-became-a-vital-way-to-protect-nature-in-australia/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-indigenous-protected-areas-became-a-vital-way-to-protect-nature-in-australia/#respond Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303379 When you think of conservation in Australia, chances are you’ll think of a national park. But there’s another fast-growing way of conserving land: Indigenous Protected Areas (IPAs). These areas of land or sea Country are voluntarily dedicated by Traditional Owners to protect nature and cultural values and responsibilities. Once dedicated, an IPA becomes part of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-indigenous-protected-areas-became-a-vital-way-to-protect-nature-in-australia/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-restoration-efforts-helped-marinette-county-recover-its-forests-streams-and-future/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-restoration-efforts-helped-marinette-county-recover-its-forests-streams-and-future/#respond Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303381 Celebrated today for its extensive forests and pristine streams, Marinette County, Wisconsin, has been in recovery for over a century. Its story is one of dramatic change, demonstrating that given time and stewardship—with respect for limits—the land can mend, nourishing its people. As glaciers retreated from the region some 12,000 years ago, the barren landscape of the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-restoration-efforts-helped-marinette-county-recover-its-forests-streams-and-future/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-question-for-indias-new-dimaagi-vanguard-can-a-janta-exist-without-a-right-to-vote/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-question-for-indias-new-dimaagi-vanguard-can-a-janta-exist-without-a-right-to-vote/#respond Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:39:20 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303324 As we write, parliament may continue to be captive, but thankfully, Parliament Street is once again active. Leaders of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), cadres of the National Students Union of India and of the Bhim Army led by Chandrashekhar Azad are gathered at the police station there, demanding legal action against one Swatantra Bhardwaj. Bhardwaj is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-question-for-indias-new-dimaagi-vanguard-can-a-janta-exist-without-a-right-to-vote/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/not-just-the-working-class/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/not-just-the-working-class/#respond Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:33:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303322 “Let no one build walls to divide us,Walls of hatred nor walls of stone.Come greet the dawn and stand beside us;We’ll live together or we’ll die alone.In our world poisoned by exploitation,Those who have taken, now must give.And end the vanity of nations:We’ve got one Earth on which to live.” Billy Bragg, updated version of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/not-just-the-working-class/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-disaster-in-nepal-and-the-need-to-build-resilience-an-ecosocialist-energy-transition-perspective/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-disaster-in-nepal-and-the-need-to-build-resilience-an-ecosocialist-energy-transition-perspective/#respond Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:21:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303313 [Editor’s note: Filipino socialist activist Khyl Ramos, from the Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM, Party of the Labouring Masses), will be speaking at Ecosocialism 2026, September 11-13, Magan-djin/Brisbane, Australia. For more information visit ecosocialism.org.au.] Nepal and the Philippines share a fundamental climate condition: both are low greenhouse-gas emitters yet highly exposed to climate risks and suffer [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-disaster-in-nepal-and-the-need-to-build-resilience-an-ecosocialist-energy-transition-perspective/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liberation-internationalism-against-the-war-regime-part-one/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liberation-internationalism-against-the-war-regime-part-one/#respond Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303311 Wars, conflicts, and crises continue to spread and persist in dozens of countries around the world, particularly across many parts of the Middle East. We are experiencing a period in which international law has been rendered ineffective, institutions such as the United Nations (UN), which are supposed to uphold it, issue ineffective statements favoring those [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/liberation-internationalism-against-the-war-regime-part-one/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/labor-daze-and-class-struggle/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/labor-daze-and-class-struggle/#respond Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:50:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1303301 Oh, Labor Day, what a glorious day! In leftist circles, we sometimes hear conspiracy theories about how the September Labor Day was a “counterrevolutionary” move by the state to distract workers from the real labor day, May Day. The truth is a bit more nuanced. The late 19th century was a vibrant period of labor [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/labor-daze-and-class-struggle/feed/ 0