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Michael Albert, thank you so much for your time and for taking our questions. It is my pleasure and I thank you…
As the ‘Arab Spring’ continues to challenge dictators, demolish old structures and ponder roadmaps for a better future, the US remains committed…
The 15-day-campaign at the White House to stop the Keystone XL pipeline has begun, and thanks to the U.S. Park Police, it’s…
On a warm spring day, strolling in south London, I heard demanding voices behind me. A police van disgorged a posse of…
Events in Libya and Syria have again brought to the forefront the question of armed humanitarian intervention or the “responsibility to protect.”…
It’s a bit odd to me that with my sense of geographical direction I’m ever regarded as a leader to guide groups…
Ha-Joon Chang is a development economist with a special interest in economic history. His most recent book, “23 Things They Don't Tell…
Since Saturday night (August 6), 45,000 members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)…
The real surprise about riots from London to Birmingham and Manchester, is not that London is burning, but that Paris, New York,…
“It is a common theme” that the United States, which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world as…
There’s no way around it: to solve the worsening climate crisis requires we must accept both that the vast majority of fossil…
The culture of “no contract, no work” is almost extinct in the United States, where strike activity has reached an all-time low. Among…
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“Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer lies what I call the Tropic of Chaos, a belt of economically…
When President Ali Abdullah Saleh tried desperately to quell Yemen’s popular uprising, he appealed to tribalism, customs and traditions. All his efforts…
In the sixties we had a slogan: "You are either part of the problem or part of the solution." Our slogans didn't…
When the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) defeated the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) in balloting among 43,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente…
I recently returned from North Africa and Palestine. I found myself giving a talk to a group in the USA where I…
Trailer for Michael Albert's Parecon lecture at Birmingham University, 26 October 2010. Video of full lecture available HERE
In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets…
I saw that you were quoted as saying "education is ignorance" — Well, that's what it often is in practice. It shouldn't…
There may be another election campaign in 2011 with as much movement-building potential as the Cheri Honkala for Sheriff campaign in Philadelphia,…
Loisaida, by Dan Chodorkoff Burlington: Fomite Press, 2011, 338 pp. http://www.fomitepress.com/FOMITE/Loisaida.html In the 1980s, the fabled Lower East Side of Manhattan…
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Instead of high-fiving each other for their success in thwarting the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Israeli officials should be throwing overboard the propaganda…
Addressing previously assembled anarchist concerns about participatory economics turned out to require too much space for one essay so I broke it into four…
How does political censorship work in liberal societies? When my film, 'Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia', was banned in the…
The Guardian publishes a transcript of its interview with Noam Chomsky about Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, and the Afiuni affair We reported…
Addressing previously assembled anarchist concerns about participatory economics turned out to require too much space for one essay so I broke it into…
Behind every good man, one finds a good woman, or so we’re told. In this year’s contest for the Teamster presidency, that…
"China is today the ideal capitalist state: freedom for capital, with the state doing the 'dirty job' of controlling the workers," writes…
Addressing previously assembled anarchist concerns about participatory economics turned out to require too much space for one essay so I broke it…
Addressing previously assembled anarchist concerns about participatory economics turned out to require too much space for one essay so I broke it into five…
You need to install or upgrade Flash Player to view this content, install or upgrade by clicking here. Talk on June 7,…
Most contenders for top union office are eager to relocate to our nation’s capital, where many labor organizations still maintain large buildings…
Last week, newly-arrived in Athens as part of the US Boat to Gaza project, our team of activists gathered for nonviolence training.…
Beyond the Crisis: Markets, Planning, and a Utopian Vision Inspired by the American National Football League http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/varoufakis220611.html Mr Zine Yanis Varoufakis The…
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Noam Chomsky is one of the major intellectuals of our time. The eighty-two-year-old American linguist, philosopher and activist is a severe critic…
A “Hamas commander” drove a beat-up gray van in northern Gaza and theatrically spoke on his walkie-talkie as I sat in the…
In late June 2011, I’m going to be a passenger on “The Audacity of Hope,” the U.S. boat in this summer’s international…
Michael Lerner (ML): You have made many excellent analyses of the power of global capital and its capacity to undermine ordinary citizens’…
An earlier open letter from John Pilger published a few days ago recounted cancellation of events he and others were scheduled for.…
"There will come a time, I know, when people will take delight in one another, when each will be a star to…
If you listen to right wing commentators, you might think American progressives are leading the charge to protect our planet from climate…
The dogma on which Margaret Thacher introduced neoliberalism – that is: “there is no alternative”- has been very popular among world leaders,…
ZCom received the following open letter from John Pilger reporting very disturbing events in progress. We thought it important to make public…
Thank you all for coming to the 12th annual award of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Some would say there are…
“Do you remember Mahmoud?” asked Abu Nidal, my neighbor from nearly 20 years ago, when I lived in Gaza. “Yes, of course,…
"I went in thinking that I was sacrificing my freedom by taking such an action. This is not really the case. The…
