Kosovo in Retrospect: Rise and Fall of the ‘Rules-Based Order’
NATO expansion, Western leaders vaunting wars for values, international judges ruling on accusations of genocide, calls to defend civilisation against barbarism — it sometimes feels as if we are still...
View ArticleRon Carey’s Lessons in Labor Movement Reform
Books about union presidents are usually penned by professional writers — either academic historians, labor journalists, or paid flacks. Past accounts of the life and work of labor organization chiefs...
View ArticleConversation on the Gaza Genocide with Norman Finkelstein and Chris Hedges
Princeton Students for Justice in Palestine hosted this discussion with Norman Finkelstein and Chris Hedges on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
View ArticleMy Father’s in Rafah, My Heart’s in the Struggle | Why I Organize for Palestine
Every day Tamar’s father sends a text message from Rafah, a “combination of mourning and steadfastness.” She carries his words and a responsibility to her family into all her organizing in New York...
View ArticleThe US Administration’s Hypocrisy and Israel’s Insolence
It is truly astonishing that Washington abstained in voting on the resolution adopted by the UN Security Council on Monday, although the resolution is consistent with the US position that rejects the...
View Article“This Is a Movement of Hope”
Organizers with Listen to Wisconsin, the group driving the state’s “Uninstructed” campaign, say next week’s primary will send President Joe Biden the “final, unequivocal message from the Midwest”...
View ArticleBiden Is Undermining the UN to Protect Israel’s War
The Israeli war on Gaza has already been an unprecedented, literal war on the United Nations, with more than 160 UN workers killed, the highest death toll of UN staff in history, and more than 150 UN...
View ArticleWhat Argentina’s Workers Can Teach the World About Resisting the Far Right
This March, Argentina’s school year began with empty classrooms. The price of learning materials rose by 502% over the past year, leaving many children unprepared for the year to come. And the...
View Article5 Lessons From Hungary: How to Fight Authoritarians
White Nationalist politicians and activists from the U.S. have beaten a path to Hungary, lionizing Viktor Orbán as a role model for crushing liberalism by any means necessary. But what can people...
View ArticleThe UAW’s 2028 National Strike Should Center Medicare for All
Fresh off their historic labor victory against the country’s Big Three automakers, the United Auto Workers (UAW) are laying the groundwork for workers across multiple sectors to join them in a general...
View ArticleThe Reality of the Green Transition
What is the ecological impact of the energy transition? We don’t yet know. But the initial outlook is bleak enough to inspire a growing number of transition sceptics who warn plundering the planet to...
View ArticleTax Day and War Resistance, Philip Berrigan Style
Each year Americans forfeit a sizable slice of their income to the United States Treasury to fund the government. Tax Day is dreaded. No one likes surrendering their hard-earned cash. But rather than a...
View ArticleLatest Huge Transfer of 2,000-Pound Bombs from U.S. to Israel Not Newsworthy...
When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that “the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel,” a lot of...
View ArticleIs Another Anarchism Possible?
Matthew Wilson teaches at Prifysgol Abertawe (Swansea University) where he lectures on People, Organisation and Business. He is an active participant in the UK cooperative movement and is the author of...
View ArticleThere’s A Better Way To Make Communities Safer
A growing number of courageous and creative people are showing that unarmed civilian protection is far superior to any smart or dumb weapon. The wars in Ukraine and Palestine continue to escalate as...
View Article‘Genocide Enablers’: Gaza And The Corporate Media
A key function of the state-corporate media is to deny reality. They do supply news. But it is no accident that they supply news of a type that covers up the crimes of elite power. However, the...
View ArticleThe Assertion of Popular Power: A Climate Movement Imperative
In part 2, historian and geographer Jason W. Moore explains why climate and revolutionary struggles must understand capitalist dynamics and deploy a language of universal class solidarity to overthrow...
View ArticleCapitalocene: How Capitalism Created the Climate Crisis
The current climate crisis emerged out of a specific set of historical and economic factors which have maintained capitalist accumulation and class inequalities to this day. Jason W. Moore, geographer...
View ArticleLabor’s 2024 Political Dilemma
As the Israeli assault on Gaza continues moving into ever-more harrowing phases of death and displacement, progressive organizing around the 2024 election and domestic criticism of President Joe...
View ArticleBombs Away!
I turned on my computer this morning and was greeted by this headline in the Washington Post: “Six months into Gaza war, Biden confronts the limits of U.S. leverage.” It was all I could do to keep from...
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