A round-up of some of labor’s responses to the growing Black Lives Matter movement.

The reworking of Afro-Asian solidarity in the service of demilitarization is a politics of our time

The past decade saw the rise of a new emancipatory politics, embodied in Spain’s municipalist movement. But to build the new, one must first overcome the old.

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole

Interview on the government’s “disastrous” response

“Abolition of police in the current moment that we’re talking about, around defunding the police, does not get rid of other systems of oppression that people face”

The economic recovery as well as a Green New Deal will only be meaningful if we take our country-wide energy systems out of the market and into democratic public ownership

Alaska, once the top oil-producing U.S. state, had slipped out of the top five by 2018

There’s a lot of bad news out there, but I hope we’ll celebrate amid the painkaren

Lifting student debt burdens would particularly benefit people of color, while giving the economy a major boost.

Can Police Be “De-Militarized” When So Many Cops Are Military Veterans?

This transformational moment is becoming a transformational movement. The time to effect revolutionary change is now.

Economies that are not allowed to plan their use of resources have floundered before the virus

Science has laws, and we can’t change them by glaring at them or shouting at them or wearing a partisan campaign button

Many players feel the issues of racial justice and stopping police violence are pressing, now is not the time for pro basketball

Legislative and Policy Priorities of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

Now is not the time for posturing. Now is the time for deep organizing

There are big issues. They matter to society hugely. Things like why does an economic and social system foresee the arrival of…

As Activists Occupy Seattle’s Capitol Hill, City Bans Tear Gas, Expels Police Union

In small towns around the country, often the places you would least expect, people are having protests with signs that say “Black Lives Matter,” “I Can’t Breathe,” and “Defund the Police.”