“OSHA must act swiftly to extend lifesaving protections for health care workers and to create new Covid-19 safety rules for all workers.”brett wil

Owners gone. So, who decides what to do and how to do it?

Nuclear weapons are at the pinnacle of what Martin Luther King Jr. called “the madness of militarism.”

You’d think that Israel might feel obligated not to drag the United States into another disastrous military conflict in the Middle East

Helping Africa in its critical fight against the pandemic should have been done in a more systematic fashion as part of an inclusive global strategy

Interview on COP26 climate summit in Glasgow

“This is essentially a government handout of up to tens of billions of dollars to the fossil fuel industry.”

“Terrible news all around for the capitalist bums.”

Who among us is prepared to stand up rather than remain mere bystanders to an epic travesty such as the judicial kidnapping of Julian Assange?

The Biden presidency is still in its early days, but it’s not too early to point to areas in the foreign policy realm where we, as progressives, have been disappointed–or even infuriated.

“She’s inheriting a broken country, legal system and Supreme Court and is coming into an empty house that has been robbed.”

Whether right-wing, left-wing or center, Israel is committed to its military superiority, its racism and to the military occupation more than ever before

The third entry in an extended conversation/debate including Michael Albert and Yanis Varoufakis

“We must do everything we can to undo the destructive colonial legacy of extractivism, until we live in a world where people and the planet come before the profits of toxic fossil fuel companies.”

Interview on the framework for the economy that comes after a communist or socialist revolution

Why is Congress giving $778 Billion of our Money to the Pentagon?

People everywhere are waking up to the realization that they must fight to organize the world in such a way that there is a sustainable future for humanity and the planet

A study of 20 years of wage data for the retail industry found a clear and growing advantage for unionized workers compared to non-union workers

Note: This is the second entry in an ongoing debate between Michael Albert and Yanis Varoufakis titled: Envisioning a postcapitalism worth striving…

Note: This is the opening entry in an ongoing debate between Michael Albert and Yanis Varoufakis titled: Envisioning a postcapitalism worth striving…

The Reissuing of ‘Reluctant Reformers’ and Its Contemporary Implications

Decision making is multifaceted. The thing decided is not alone important. How we decide also matters

A Majority Report interview on participatory economics

Placone interviews Albert on No Bosses

Albert’s post-capitalist vision includes self-management, diversity, equity, solidarity, and sustainability

“Some of the same people who denounce the BBB plan as too expensive are eager to pass a bill giving the Pentagon $778 billion for one year, or nearly $8 trillion over ten years.”

Writing to the CEOs of two private equity firms, Warren, Sanders, and Baldwin decried the “blatant mistreatment” of miners, including forced 12-hour shifts and seven-day workweeks

It’s time to perceive and admit that the oppressions we aim to fight in the world are actually systemic within our movements, embedded in the structures of even some of the most progressive organizations

Risking a nuclear holocaust to appease the military-industrial complex is as insane as destroying the climate and the natural world to appease the fossil fuel industry

The struggle ahead promises to be hard and brutal, but the “general will” can always prevail in the end even under the most gruesome of circumstances if people are willing to fight for the right cause

If revolution incorporates feminism it will transform itself. Only through such a transformation will revolutionary change be capable of meeting the broadest range of people’s needs

Raids, Arrests and Death Threats

The voice within had some nice words but little substance. In the streets, tens of thousands of protesters, mostly young, were desperately calling for real steps to save the world from looming catastrophe

In response to COP26, C. J. Polychroniou argues that we cannot rely on summits to solve climate change. Instead, radical and legal activism are the best hopes for our future

Throughout the 2022 primary season, I want you to explore with me the absolutely bonkers idea of running a progressive, dare I say radical, Lefty McLefterson candidate in a Republican primary in a GOP stronghold district

The verdict, said the Huber family, sends the “unacceptable message” that armed vigilantes can “use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street.”

“We are here today to send a message that President Biden must take action now to ensure the promise of our democracy and protect our freedom to vote.”

The vast network of ready-to-launch intercontinental ballistic missiles that make up the United States’s nuclear triad remains a constant source of apocalyptic risk that few in politics or the media will openly acknowledge

“The US government misread Cuba when it decided to invest so heavily in trying to instigate insurrection. We Cubans want to improve our country & move forward, not back to the times when we were the friendly playground of US capital, corruption & ambition.”

The grocery and food processing industries have “created an illusion of choice and efficiency to disguise their profiteering off of the American consumer, who is unwillingly asked to trade abundance for resilience.”

“Isn’t it strange how even as we end the longest war in our nation’s history concerns about the deficit and national debt seem to melt away under the influence of the powerful military-industrial complex?”

Expecting COP26 to save the world is wishful thinking. Our fate is truly in our own hands. It always has been. It is high time for politicians to stop talking and, for once, truly listen

“As much as these companies might want to massage the facts, the numbers are crystal clear—they are still supplying the majority of their doses to richer parts of the world.”

The proposed lease sale, said over 250 groups in a joint letter, “shockingly offers more area than the Trump administration initially proposed.”

Interview on climate change and the young activists working hard to fight it

The editorial certainly reflected “longstanding values” — since the Times has recycled them for decades in its relentless attacks on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party

The quieter focus of the film The Drummer is the lasting physical and psychological impact of military service, under post 9/11 conditions

Restructuring the international economic order to avert cataclysmic climate change demands bottom-up participation

‘Our Democracy Faces an Existential Threat’

If you want a choice not to wear a mask, that’s okay, stay home, don’t endanger others