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
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
