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Editorial PhilosophyMcCarthy Manor is an apartment building that provides “affordable housing” to senior citizens and people with disabilities. The building has long been neglected by its owner
We can no longer ignore the role of Big Tech in entrenching global inequality. To curtail the forces of digital capitalism, we need an ecosocialist Digital Tech Deal
“We think there ought to be an alternative to the corporate and for-profit system of housing.”
As the “co-governance” model gains traction, here’s a look into the promises and pitfalls—and how organizers are reimagining electoral politics
Laugh off concerns about “cancel culture” all you want. But even recent history shows how vital free speech is to winning social justice
And why it took my father 40 years to see the ocean
The growing grassroots network vows to expand popular power and move forward in the construction of socialism
“If we continue with fossil fuels, then we’re… not gonna have a planet that we can live on,” said one protestor who locked himself to an oil tanker
Amazon Union Victory Inspires Progressives
Amazon workers in Staten Island have achieved the most important labor victory in the United States since the 1930s. Here’s an inside account of how they did it
The drive for sustainable change will only increase with each new violent measure that Russia takes
The improbable became the most probable when the scrappy band of workers who make up the Amazon Labor Union took the lead in a union election at a warehouse in Staten Island
Sunrise Movement made climate change a key political issue, but new conditions require new theory and strategy
The reported EU and USA “compromise” proposal on removing restrictions on the production and distribution of Covid-19 treatments would be worse than no deal at all
The National Call for Moral Revival made a stop in Madison, Wisconsin, on its way to Washington, D.C.
Interview on how the Left is challenging the neoliberal and far-right stranglehold over the country’s politics
Source: Rapid Transition Alliance All around the world, governments’ energy policies are at a crossroads. In order to insulate themselves from dependence…
“Universal debt cancellation would be the first serious step toward the goal of College for All that we have seen in our lifetime.”
What will happen now is uncertain. The one certainty is that it is up to us
What our examination should remind us is that Putin is part of a global right-wing authoritarian movement that seeks to “overthrow” the 20th century
YouTube Has Deleted Six Years of My Show
These baristas have created an organizing model that can be replicated at similar corporate chains everywhere
Biden Refuses to Release Central Bank Assets
Interview on building worker power through resilience.
Only civil society in the form of public pressure from within the main geopolitical antagonists can bring these two governments to their senses and bring an end to this terrible two-level struggle
In contrast to ineffective—or even unethical—actions targeting Russian culture and individuals, the Palestinian BDS campaign is a model of how to use boycott and divestment efforts strategically
The Minneapolis teachers’ union just won a nearly three-week-long strike
People’s attitudes towards retail workers are now sadly the same as before the pandemic. The rudeness, intolerance and treating us like dirt has returned
The Sacramento school district is pleading poverty: teachers and school workers aren’t buying the district’s excuses — and now they’re on strike to change its priorities
Even one month into the war, there is the possibility of a negotiated settlement that is somewhat fair and just. I know many of us feel powerless but let us do what we can
It seems that union organizing has become both necessary and cool. Can this surge be sustained—and what will it take?
How many times have an attempt by the American government to effect regime change anywhere in the world worked out well?
The war in Ukraine pits America’s capacity for self-reflection against our love for self-deception
This weird passage we’ve entered is the COVID policy version of throwing the parachute out of the plane and then jumping out after it
For humanity to survive, a global epiphany rejecting consumer capitalism must become a material force in energy production
Building a more powerful people’s movement for economic democracy will require the spread of a more expansive view of democracy, one that moves past individual rights and into the realm of shared responsibilities
Italy’s emerging student movement La Lupa is building on a long tradition of student organizing and is taking important steps towards intersectional solidarity
Many conservatives don’t think the 2020 election was stolen. But they believe democracy itself has betrayed America, by allowing the ‘wrong’ people to take charge
Climate Breakdown And The Tory Chancellor
Nothing is unthinkable under capitalism-imperialism
Making the case for a mass anti-war movement in support of Ukraine
Ex-UN Chief Demands Better Patent Waiver Deal
Tenant organizers acknowledged the importance of coming together as a neighborhood and a class to fight back against landlord harassment
Interview on an end to the war in Ukraine
It might not be ‘cool’ to lay down weapons now, but it would mean the end of senseless violence and prevent the annihilation of Ukraine
Organizers with Down Home North Carolina have found a strategy for breaking through the politics of racial resentment that have dominated the deep-red rural state for generations
Cleaner, alternative energies are only going to be truly viable if we can also greatly reduce our energy needs, which means reconfiguring the global economy. Do we really have what it takes?
Today, around the world, the wealthiest 10 multi-billionaires now own more wealth than the bottom 3.1 billion – almost 40 percent of the world’s population
Nick Driedger argues that most metrics by which unions are measured obscure what is really important
Our hypocrisy on war crimes makes a rules-based world, one that abides by international law, impossible



