Source: New Politics The conflict in Yemen has been going on for a long time with horrendous human consequences. Non specialists find…
Starbucks workers from coast to coast protested against the company’s anti-union campaign, which is becoming increasingly aggressive
Interview on class, veteranhood, and the radical potential for organizing within Britain’s armed forces
Gen Z: Young people like you are winning unions at Starbucks and Amazon. The time to join the labor movement and transform the world is now
Rapper and activist Lowkey is facing down a campaign by pro-Israel lobbyists to get his music taken off Spotify
Source: Nicklicata.com With the public gravitating toward insular hostile camps, bipartisan cooperation is rare in our current politics. Mónica Guzmán building a…
Maybe one day we will achieve a full Earth, full of humanity and knowledge
Combining solidarity economy principles with the benefits of collective ownership in its widest, most holistic sense
Christopher Hitchens – the writer who gave us the original ‘Hitch Slap’ – is back in the spotlight. Is his brand of contrarian progressivism a welcome alternative to a Twitter-fixated, deplatforming Left?
A wide-ranging discussion on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
The Ukraine “adventure” has failed. The sooner this is recognized, the lower the price will be
Opposing war has always been at the heart of socialist internationalism
Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted
The U.S. Labor Department said Tuesday inflation in the United States rose to 8.5% in March — the highest in four decades
“The government’s insane, and I don’t know what else to do, other than to do this, and to try and get the attention that we need to wake the public up”
A strike can force recognition of a union; a supermajority strike is powerful when bargaining; a strike with mass support can be a political weapon to change society
Unions must create a massive, dedicated project to assist workers like those at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse
How is it possible that so many left voters in France are willing to choose a far-right candidate in the second round of the presidential elections?
Americans have been shocked by the death and destruction of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, filling our screens with bombed buildings and dead…
Perhaps the war in Ukraine can awaken an awareness of its capitalist roots and teach people to explore alternative systemic solutions
“Governments have ignored the scientists who’ve warned that we’re heading for catastrophe for decades. That’s why so many are now engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience as a last-ditch effort.”
The failure to adapt to new realities is not an accident. It’s the design.
Don’t grow up. Stay forever young
Squeals of “socialism!” aside, we know how to do this and have done it before, repeatedly. This time it’s not just about saving our banks or fighting a war: this time, it’s about saving the world…
Women’s involvement in the farmers’ movement gave hope to young women
As higher education institutions are pitted against each other, students, staff and activists must come together to resist a costly race to the bottom
Civil disobedience by climate scientists erupted in 25 countries on every continent
If we’re not able to recognize multiple imperialisms, we are guilty of the same kind of Americocentrism for which we castigate others
Washington appears to be absent from the process, seemingly holding out for a preferred outcome while the violence rages
The most specific thing leftists can do is to fundamentally shift their organisation’s analysis of the war. They should not tolerate Putin’s imperialism and should fully support the right of Ukrainian people to self-determination
“Bounty hunter” provisions in Texas’s new abortion restrictions are “plucked right out of antebellum slavery”
Even the workers in the Constitutional Convention process are themselves organizing a union
Sheila’s memoir shows us what is possible, but that it is our job to go out and do it
“Amid the moral outrage and depth of animosity toward Putin, the risks of pouring arms into Ukraine should be considered carefully and dispassionately”
This company can do so much better for us, and we can’t wait to show the entire country exactly what that looks like.”
It is the responsibility of the Left to not only try to limit the damage, but also to build toward a new world
A key part of this win has not yet been explored: how immigrant workers organized each other to support the union
“Globally, no period has seen more student activism than the past 20 years.”
Interview on the stakes of the war in Ukraine and how the left must respond
Interview on organizing alongside the Zapatistas, the often “messy” practice of international solidarity and more
No. I do not think that the taxpayers of this country need to be providing him a $10 billion bailout to Mr. Bezos to fuel his space hobby
Westerners consumed with moral outrage over the crimes of enemies are still able to maintain their usual silence while their own leaders carry out terrible crimes right now
It is not that the empathy for Ukraine or support for Zelensky’s national resistance is misplaced, but that it has the appearance of being orchestrated
In face of the “escalating climate emergency,” the advocacy group Scientist Rebellion warns that IPCC summary to global policymakers remains “alarmingly reserved, docile, and conservative.”
Interview on the release of funding for Afghan civilians
Advocates back new federal legislation to end homelessness across the country
Review of Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil, by Glenn Greenwald
“There are plenty of young people who are appalled by the behaviour of the older generation, rightly, and are dedicated to trying to stop this madness before it consumes us all. Well, that’s the hope for the future.”
“If everyone could see what I see coming,” said one scientist, “society would switch into climate emergency mode and end fossil fuels in just a few years.”
The general public may not give much thought to how scientists and scholars publish their work, but please know that it matters
