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Defeating Mass Deportations

Published: May 30, 2025 16:04

Building powerful, overwhelming resistance to Trump’s mass deportations is the critical battle at the moment. It’s the hook that the New Confederacy (the fascist forces coalesced around Trump, which have inherited the mantle of the Old Confederacy) is…

From Inner Change to Systemic Change

Published: May 30, 2025 15:46

With the release of my significantly revised, new edition of Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons, I’ve had a chance to start some new conversations and engage with different communities of practice. Recently, the Garrison…

Our People are Starving

Published: May 29, 2025 15:51

Millions of our people have been impoverished by the system of oppression that makes the poor to be poor and the rich to be rich. Hunger is a very painful part of impoverishment. Some people feel ashamed and hide this pain and suffer alone. Many parents…

Ecuador: Rights of Nature on Paper — The Case of Sarayaku

Published: May 27, 2025 16:00

In 2012, the Kichwa people of Sarayaku won a historic lawsuit against the Ecuadorian state in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights—one of the first major tests of Ecuador’s trailblazing 2008 Constitution, the first in the world to recognize the Rights…

Communist-Led Kerala Is Eradicating Extreme Poverty

Published: May 27, 2025 16:00

In a region too often consumed by the drums of war, particularly between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan, the importance of a sustained ceasefire cannot be overstated. While military skirmishes and nationalistic posturing capture headlines,…

How to Build Civic Courage

Published: May 23, 2025 15:58

WORT 89.9FM Madison · How to Build Civic Courage with Henry Giroux On today’s show, social critic Henry Giroux discusses what he calls the “politics of cleansing,” the multi-pronged offensive currently being waged against civil liberties, dissent, and…

What A ‘Bolder’ Green Party Could Mean For The Left

Published: May 23, 2025 15:52

Since announcing his leadership bid earlier this month, Zack Polanksi seems to have succeeded in his mission to shake things up. In an online video (which has now been viewed 1.4 million times), the current deputy leader of the Green Party launched his…

Social Self-Defense vs. MAGA: A Strategic Assessment

Published: May 22, 2025 15:59

At the end of Trump’s first 100 days, the defense of society against his MAGA juggernaut has begun — and is gaining strength. But it will need to grow far stronger and find ways to turn Trump’s potential vulnerabilities into effective means to reduce and…

Lessons from a Landmark Campaign: An Interview with Stephen Lerner on Justice for Janitors

Published: May 22, 2025 15:54

Stephen Lerner joined SEIU in the mid-1980s and immediately took on the role of designing and directing the union’s most innovative and successful campaign of that era, Justice for Janitors. In this interview, he traces his involvement with SEIU from that…

Trump’s First Four Months

Published: May 21, 2025 16:00

In early February, a few weeks into this time of testing, I identified our objectives over the next two years as “making as many advances as we can on local and state levels while preventing as much damage as possible to the primary MAGA targets: US…

Materialism Is Essential for Socialist Politics

Published: May 20, 2025 18:12

For decades, Marxism and the socialist tradition more generally — of which Marxism is just apart — were associated with a doctrine known as materialism. But in the recent past, this approach has largely been abandoned by critical theorists, to the point…

Can Degrowth Communism Save the World?

Published: May 19, 2025 17:25

This is the first in a series on Possible Worlds, envisioning alternatives to the current system in the spirit of “Another world is possible.” Confronting our current political situation, we need to go beyond the defensive to explore how we came to this…

Making Expensive Cities Into Union Towns

Published: May 19, 2025 17:01

In this monthly roundup of “large-unit labor elections,” Benjamin Y. Fong from the Center for Work and Democracy at Arizona State University recaps all National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) elections of 250 or more voters tallied in the previous month, in…

How to Fight Trump Without Caving to Corporatists

Published: May 19, 2025 16:22

RICHARD ESKOW: In a recent column you asked, “What’s preventing a united front against the Trump regime?” You say, “America desperately needs a united front to restrain the wrecking ball of the Trump regime.” I get the “wrecking ball,” but why do we need a…

Defeating a Bloc Ginned Up on Delusion and Hate

Published: May 19, 2025 16:19

“History…would be of a very mystical nature if ‘accidents’ played no part in it…. including the ‘accident’ of the character of those who at first stand at the head of the movement.” —Karl Marx Most of the time it makes sense to skip past Donald Trump’s…

The Four-Day Workweek: Possibility or Pipedream?

Published: May 15, 2025 15:56

In 2018, a New Zealand-based entrepreneur named Andrew Barnes began an eight-week experiment at his finance company, Perpetual Guardian. He offered all employees a four-day, thirty-two-hour week with no reduction in pay, on the condition that they…

What Strategy for Labor?

Published: May 15, 2025 15:55

What can we do to turn around decades of union decline? This is the key challenge of our era, because the power of a revitalized labor movement is needed to pull America off its descent into oligarchy and authoritarianism. There are no easy answers, which…

Sabotage Is On The Menu

Published: May 13, 2025 17:50

It is the final week of February 2024, and the City of London, the capital’s ancient financial district, where corporations cluster like woodland trees, is teeming with climate activists. For three days they march the streets, block the entrances, and…

Block & Build 2.0 At the Housing Justice Front

Published: May 13, 2025 16:01

The Block and Build framework has been a key component of Right to the City Alliance’s  strategy development over the past couple of years. Convergence’s “Block and Build 2.0” framework resonates with our own understanding of the moment, and is valuable in…

Sri Lanka’s Left in the Tariff Trap

Published: May 12, 2025 17:23

“Katunayake FTZ workers skip travel home to vote due to high bus fares” reported a Sri Lankan news outlet on the morning of Monday, May 5, one day before local government elections. The headline captured in just a few words the quiet crisis unfolding in…

Trump Tariffs and US Imperialism

Published: May 12, 2025 16:40

On April 2, 2025, Donald Trump declared a “Day of Liberation” and slapped massive tariffs on most countries—excluding Russia but including a 50% tariff on Lesotho. The standard Left argument is that Trump’s tariffs represent capital’s warfare against the…

How Unions Can Protect Immigrants

Published: May 12, 2025 16:32

In February, the labor reporter Luis Feliz Leon published an essay on the n+1 website on unions’ varying responses to Trump. We were intrigued by his mention of a members’ meeting organized by Faye Guenther, president of United Food and Commercial Workers…

The Oilworkers’ Plan

Published: May 11, 2025 10:31

“Energy is the principal geopolitical dispute of our time.” So began the Progressive International’s workshop this weekend in Bogotá, convened by the Unión Sindical Obrera de la Industria del Petróleo (Petroleum Industry Workers’ Union, USO) to chart a…

The End Of US Empire Is Not The End Of The World

Published: May 11, 2025 10:18

There is no doubt that the world has entered a new era of multipolarity. While the United States remains powerful, it is increasingly counterbalanced by a China-led global order. This isn’t just about alternative trade routes, supply chains, or…

The Left’s Contribution?

Published: May 10, 2025 15:19

I bet you agree that we need to persistently resist Trumpian fascism. ‘Smash Trump. Sink his administration. Replace both.” I said that just now. Countless others have said similar things increasingly in recent days.  All of us are one hundred days in.…

End Times Fascism

Published: May 10, 2025 14:39

“Our opponents know full well that we are entering an age of emergency, but have responded by. . . choosing to let the Earth burn. Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged…

Bridging the Digital Divide Between the Left and Capitalism, an Urgent Mission for Left Movements

Published: May 9, 2025 11:02

The struggle for socialist liberation in the 21st century cannot rely on the tools of the previous century. In a time when algorithms dominate, public consciousness is managed through artificial intelligence, and policies and visions are shaped by big…

Principles Not Personalities

Published: May 7, 2025 18:29

Traditionally, left politics have been based on collective action to challenge, and if possible, transcend structural injustice and systemic inequality. On this count, working class left politics stands in stark contrast to middle class liberalism, which…

Affirming the Spirit of Bandung Today

Published: May 7, 2025 18:28

The Bandung Conference in April 1955 has achieved the status of a mythical moment in the history of the Global South. There have been many accounts that have highlighted its downsides—among them, the underrepresentation of leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa…