Part 7 of this series contains the following chapters: 9. A Constructive Program for Social Self-Defense10. What Social Self-Defense Is Defending Defending…
5 January 2025 I adjusted my eyes. I wanted to know the time. Outside it is as dark as when I…
Regularly, Donald Trump is presented as a fascistic leader. Yet, he has no Italian-style Blackshirts roaming the streets and no Hitler-style SA…
When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless…
Over the past 14 months, I have received hundreds of messages from family members throughout the Gaza Strip. The nature of the…
Part 6 of this series contains the following chapters: 7. Non-Electoral Opposition8. The Social Strike Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus…
Part 5 of this series contains the following chapter: 6. Electoral Opposition Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a…
AI is already very nearly everywhere. So far, it is no big deal, right? It assembles data, controls this or that machine,…
Review of Prisoners After War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Jason Higgins (University of Massachusetts Press, 2024). Like old soldiers around…
Part 4 of this series contains the following chapter: 5. Strategy for Social Self-Defense Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for…
The following is an edited transcript of the speech and responses to questions given by Greg Yudin on the “The situation for…
Redlining, exclusionary zoning, and predatory lending schemes have put prospective Black homeowners at a severe disadvantage. As the Ballard Center for Social…
Part 3 of this series contains the following chapter: 4. Social Self-Defense in the First Trump Regime Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny:…
Part 2 of this series contains the following chapter: 3. What We Must Prepare For Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus…
On the last day of 2024, the deputy general counsel for the House of Representatives formally accepted delivery of a civil summons…
The latest news from the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) so-called “Protecting the Homeland” operation in the Jenin refugee camp paints a grim picture.…
[This is part II of a II part article about free market economics. Part I was published here.] In part I, I…
Defending Society Against MAGA Tyranny: A Prospectus for Action is a report from the Labor Network for Sustainability, co-published by ZNetwork.org. Part…
By Jeremy Brecher A Report from the Labor Network for Sustainability, Co-published by ZNetwork.org January 1, 2025 Click to download the PDF…
The Peoples’ Platform Europe will take place in Vienna from February 14-16, 2025. Under the motto “Reclaim the Initiative”, it aims to…
With President Jimmy Carter’s passing and Donald Trump about to return to the White House, it’s a good time to recall a…
[This is part I of a II part article about free market economics. Part II was published here.] Talk to the Fish…
In recent years there have been all too many prominent cases demonstrating the prevalence of extreme misogyny in American society. For example,…
Donald, the idiot, the madman, the consummate cowardly thug is preparing to unleash shock and awe to paint his agenda onto the…
No, it was not Santa Claus or Papa Noel as some of my adopted Argentine family refer to this mythic figure. The…
At the end of October, several members of the Advisory Council of the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP), a German-based organization…
This week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. government made war in Afghanistan while helping to “recruit, train and pay for lawless…
In Ft. Wayne, Indiana this September, I was arrested with a long time activist friend, Cliff Kindy, for blocking the entrance to…
Following a ten-day siege, the Palestinian Authority began, on December 14, a violent raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern…
On midnight on Saturday December 21st, members of Amazon Labor Union Local 1 began their strike at the JFK-8 warehouse in Staten…
In these difficult times, the voice of the late Palestinian-American scholar, Edward Said is ever present, “Writing is the final resistance we…
In today’s world of widespread poverty and unprecedented wealth, how about raising the wages of the most poorly paid workers? This October,…
Strange now to think of you while I read the words of a Jewish poet long gone on his boat of metaphors…
President-elect Donald Trump said at a conference for young conservatives in Arizona this past Sunday that the official policy of his upcoming…
The United States, Turkey and Israel all responded to the fall of the Assad government in Damascus by launching bombing campaigns on…
I was recently invited to give a talk at MIT on campus organizing and battling against Trumpism. This was because in 1965,…
We were in one of those finish-everything-before-the-holidays meetings, pussyfooting about an accusation someone had made. Suddenly a colleague confessed, “My hands are…
The behavioral healthcare workers in Kaiser Permanente’s vast empire of hospitals, clinics medical offices, and homecare settings are on strike today in…
The Republicans (GOP), traditionally the U.S.’s anti-tax party, now promise to use tariffs to wage trade wars, to massively deport immigrants, and…
Social media censorship is a global phenomenon, but the war on pro-Palestinian views on social media represents a different kind of censorship,…
Israel is getting ready to annex the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The annexation will be a major step backward on the road…
The December 4 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the public outrage over the state of healthcare it sparked, is a…
Colleges and universities around the globe are once again squarely in the political crosshairs, with many of us in academia bracing for…
In at least three separate elections, Donald J. Trump was portrayed by his supporters and right-wing intellectuals as an ‘anti-war’ candidate. This…
Karl Jaspers once wrote that the general public made use of the results of science like primitive peoples made use of the…
“A new study has found that almost half of children in Gaza wish to die, as a result of the trauma they…
Communities of color and minoritized populations are disproportionately burdened with environmental hazards nationwide. Discriminatory policy practices often overlook the overall well-being and…
Once again, the holiday season is upon us. Whether we choose to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa—or simply participate in the ongoing festivities—we…
“Jesus recognized fully that out of the heart are the issues of life and that no external force, however great and overwhelming,…
Following the murder of United Healthcare’s CEO, social media has been flooded with outrage, mostly directed against insurance companies that deny care. …
