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Go Film The Police
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/go-film-the-police/
Published: February 27, 2026 16:57
One of the reasons for photographing and filming at protests is to document police brutality when it predictably comes. At the end of summer I found myself on the floor surrounded by 15 German police officers. I was presented with an ultimatum, either I…
Factory Occupation In Italy: Laid-Off Workers Organise As A Cooperative And Want To Set Up Their Own Business
Published: February 27, 2026 16:56
In the summer of 2021, the GKN auto parts factory near the Italian city of Florence was closed, and over 400 workers lost their jobs. Since then, some of them have been occupying the building—for over four years now. Their goal is to manufacture solar…
How to Defeat MAGA Tyranny, Chapter 9 & Conclusion: Endgames – “The power is in our solidarity”
Published: February 27, 2026 14:00
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingly met with repression in the streets. In this moment,…
Ordinary People Want Peace; Can Citizen Diplomacy Build A Safer Future For Everyone?
Published: February 26, 2026 16:58
“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” George Bernard Shaw A thought provoking discussion with Jan Oberg of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Studies, who…
How to Build Emergency Response Systems for the Long Haul
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-build-emergency-response-systems-for-the-long-haul/
Published: February 25, 2026 17:45
Targeted state violence and rising fascism are being met with creative organizing by people in Minneapolis and across the country, from mass marches to neighborhood mutual aid to ICE watch foot patrols. These are all beautiful manifestations of resistance…
Workers Need More Paths to Join the Labor Movement
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/workers-need-more-paths-to-join-the-labor-movement/
Published: February 25, 2026 17:41
[This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable series: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0? We will be publishing more contributions here and in our magazine in the months ahead. Click here to read the rest of the series.] It shouldn’t…
Zohran Mamdani Wants to Reclaim Efficiency From the Right
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/zohran-mamdani-wants-to-reclaim-efficiency-from-the-right/
Published: February 24, 2026 17:00
One of the core claims of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for New York City mayor last year was that government can and should work effectively and efficiently for the people it serves, with “public excellence” as one of the thirty-four-year-old democratic…
“Organize or Burn”
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/organize-or-burn/
Published: February 24, 2026 17:00
At the time of this writing, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is about to break 100,000 members, with nearly 14,000 of them in New York City alone. The election of Zohran Mamdani, a longtime DSA activist and New York assemblymember, as the city’s…
Lessons from Minneapolis & Mass Social Strikes Webinar
https://znetwork.org/zvideo/lessons-from-minneapolis-mass-social-strikes-webinar/
Published: February 23, 2026 22:01
Organizers across the USA convened on February 16, 2026 to discuss the potential of social strikes in combatting Trump’s authoritarian juggernaut. Join us to learn about the history of social strike resistance to tyranny around the world; the lessons of…
Cuba Under Siege, Mexico and Latin America Under Threat
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cuba-under-siege-mexico-and-latin-america-under-threat/
Published: February 23, 2026 21:32
Right now, 90 miles from our shore, the people of Cuba are facing the most extreme attack by the United States in at least a generation. The Trump administration has moved to choke off all remaining fuel access to the island. Venezuela and Mexico—the two…
Basis of Class Struggle Must be Recognized by Working People
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/basis-of-class-struggle-must-be-recognized-by-working-people/
Published: February 23, 2026 21:03
Distractions Currently working people are inveterately distracted with attacks on the Constitution by MAGA gangsters, thugs, and reprobates. Another distraction is the heinous protection of the international cabal of rich men guilty of exploiting young…
Philanthropy for Radicals
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/philanthropy-for-radicals/
Published: February 23, 2026 20:54
A review of The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended Americaby John Fabian WittSimon & Schuster, 2025, 736 pp. In 1922 the American Fund for Public Service received two requests for money from people who would become famous…
21st Century Common Sense, Part Two
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/21st-century-common-sense/
Published: February 23, 2026 20:32
Rebellions against injustice and poverty go back centuries, millenia, throughout the world. People “on the bottom” of human societies, sooner or later, get themselves organized to put up a fight. Because of this historical reality, when it is combined with…
Females vs Citizens
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/females-vs-citizens/
Published: February 23, 2026 20:28
Around midsummer this year, my partner and I will welcome our first child into the world. I have thought long and hard about whether or not to say anything in this newsletter, committed as we are to our privacy. But, ultimately, it is becoming harder and…
The Collapse of the State, the Birth of Society: Iran
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-collapse-of-the-state-the-birth-of-society-iran/
Published: February 23, 2026 20:24
​What is happening in Iran is not a “crisis.” A crisis implies a state of temporary imbalance. In Iran, however, what is collapsing is not a temporary order, but a historical political ontology. ​The popular movement that began in Rojhilat (East) Kurdistan…
How to Build Pro-Worker Governance in Cleveland
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-build-pro-worker-governance-in-cleveland/
Published: February 22, 2026 14:07
While Zohran Mamdani was trouncing his opponents in the New York City mayoral election, Tanmay Shah, a twenty-nine-year-old Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member and South Asian immigrant, who ran on a platform of affordable housing, affordable…