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
Speech of the founder of the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto and of the Partito di Unità Proletaria, former MEP Luciana Castellina, at the ‘Europe for Peace’ rally on 5 March in Rome
There is good reason to focus on the oligarchs supporting the Kremlin. But do American multi-billionaires and Saudi princes enjoy less political clout, stash less money abroad, and use their influence any better?
“We are not the ones who owe; it’s capital and the state who owe us”
In many ways, the weakness of the labor movement is the weakness of its left wing
Labor is on fire in the Twin Cities. Educators in Minneapolis are wrapping up their second week on strike, and cafeteria workers are poised to join them
“You talk about countries being demolished with bombs, but we’re being demolished by greed of people who don’t want to listen to us.”
“With every war and every conflict, Raytheon’s profits multiply”
A History Lesson for Our Desperate Moment
Anti-imperialist activists won’t let go of America
Our collective worker struggle remains crucial to band together as a force that can take on the ultra-rich
The ghastly blockade and bombardment of Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, is now entering its eighth year
Participatory Economics Is How
Verizon workers seeking to unionize in Washington state say the company just brought in executives to intimidate them
“The excitement and energy this time is very different inside the facility and out”
Making this the decade of the Green New Deal will address these threats to our health and safety by transitioning off of fossil fuels and toward renewable energy
“If members of Congress refuse to act, it’ll be concrete evidence that they’re in the pockets of the industry”
Mega corporations are making around 494 times what they spend by bottling water in Mexico and selling it back to locals who have no choice but to buy it
The White House’s Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment suggests stronger laws are needed for fundamental change in labor movement. So where are they?
More than 100 locations across the country are trying to establish unions
Wherever capitalist exploitation occurs, the working class will rise to resist it, and in Pasadena the housing struggle is heating up
And They’re in Putin’s Crosshairs
The Russian TV producer who held up an anti-war sign during a live broadcast is an outlier in not just her homeland
“The challenge is to have a healing response instead of just continuing the failed policies of the past.”
A tentative agreement between India, South Africa, the United States and the European Union only waives intellectual property for Covid vaccines (not tests or treatments)
Reflections on War, Peace, and Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could lead to a “hurricane of hunger and a meltdown of the global food system” that would be especially devastating for the Global South
Interview on the process of deep canvassing, an organizing tool that breaks through bigotry and disinformation by having compassionate conversations
Labor strategists hope wins will turn into a larger trend but acknowledge it won’t be easy as corporations fight fiercely against unionization
After months of fruitless negotiations and two earlier mobilizations, the Hungarian education sector is going on an indefinite strike
“The cost on civilian lives is horrific”
Volodymyr Ishchenko on his country’s future and the responsibility of the Left in East and West
Instead of succumbing to the challenges of the past few years, young climate activists are learning to adapt and build on their past actions
After decades of fighting the Right, Suzanne Pharr and Linda Evans reflect on how to foster connection and community that will feed multiracial organizing
“Our community will not sit silently while Disney fails in its obligations to advocate for employees… profits off our labor, and boasts of record profits.”
New York’s essential workers have been excluded from relief and benefits. The Fund Excluded Workers Coalition is fighting to change that
Like many western leaders, Putin’s main goal is to stay in power
The far right is not one entity with one goal; it encompasses a range of political groups with different visions for society. But these varied forces are coalescing into a dangerous coalition
A new wave of extractivism from the Global South is the hidden side of the energy transitions in the North
Cafeteria staff bring home some of the lowest earnings of the generally underpaid K–12 workforce
Interview on on Ukraine’s Resistance & Russian Antiwar Protests
Interview on the historical, cultural, geopolitical, and media implications of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Putin fears that if liberal democracy is a success in Ukraine, more and more people in Russia may want it as well
Biden vowed to stop supporting the Saudi-led war. A year later, Yemen’s humanitarian crisis is worse by many accounts than when Trump was president
Oppressive conservative forces are still strong in Chile and Gabriel Boric’s supporters are impatient for change. Can he fulfil his promise?
