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Social Democracy Won the Century and Lost the Future

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Published: September 18, 2026 16:04

On Sunday, Sweden’s Social Democratic Party (SAP) emerged as the largest party in an election that will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. Magdalena Andersson is poised to return as prime minister, with her four-party bloc holding a one-seat majority…

‘Like being Let Out of a Cage’: What the Pittston Strike Can Teach US About Faith, Building Community and Democracy

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/like-being-let-out-of-a-cage-what-the-pittston-strike-can-teach-us-about-faith-building-community-and-democracy/

Published: September 18, 2026 15:52

Sept. 16, 1989, was a hot late-summer day in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Rev. Jim Sessions couldn’t sleep. He had a lot to be nervous about. The next morning, Sessions would drive two hours into the coalfields of southwest Virginia to participate in an act…

Super-intelligent AI Won’t Kill Us. Dumb Billionaires are Doing That All by Themselves

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Published: September 17, 2026 15:52

The super-rich have already screwed up the planet in their pursuit of power and profit. AI simply gives them a new tool to hasten their story – and ours – to its dramatic finale It is extremely difficult for ordinary people, myself very much included, to…

A Portrait of How Workers Build a Strike

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Published: September 17, 2026 15:48

Who Moves America chronicles the Teamsters’ 2023 near-strike at UPS. It’s a rare and moving portrait of a massive, diverse group of workers building themselves into a fighting force, who then must wrestle with a different version of victory than they…

Liberating Theory, Economics/Class

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Published: September 15, 2026 16:00

This article continues a sequence taken from a book, Liberating Theory, published forty years ago. Its seven co-authors felt that a successful left in the U.S. needed what some of us called a shared conceptual toolbox for conceiving, judging, and enacting…

What Would a More Democratic Job Search Look Like?

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Published: September 14, 2026 19:24

The job search is often described as though it were a private problem. Update the résumé. Search harder. Apply to more positions. Improve your interview skills. Learn another software program. Network. Follow up. Try again. There is truth in all of this.…

How Can Tech Workers Defeat the Oligarchy?

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Published: September 14, 2026 18:44

Eric Blanc: What is the overall state of tech worker organizing under Trump 2.0? It seems like lots of people must be angry with their companies’ capitulation to Trump but I imagine the fear factor is also a lot higher today. JS Tan: Yes, we’re hearing…

The Revolution Will Be Computational

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Published: September 14, 2026 18:27

The next great political revolution may not begin with a crowd in a square. It may begin with a network of ordinary people acquiring computational capabilities that were previously reserved for governments, corporations and large institutions.  For…

Anti-Imperialism and the Left in 2026

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Published: September 12, 2026 16:01

Manijeh Maradian is a founder of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective and the author of This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States.  The homepage of the website for the Collective makes the group’s position quite clear: it rejects US…

A Shift in Europe from Right to Left Is Possible

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Published: September 12, 2026 16:00

In several European countries, parliamentary and presidential elections have become the scene of a historic contest between right-wing and left-wing forces. In Germany, state elections are underway, and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has…

Tech Billionaires, the AI Threat and Resistance

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Published: September 11, 2026 18:08

Silicon Valley tech billionaires hold fanciful ideas. For example, many believe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will be realized in the very near future and its achievement will usher in an era of plenty, with trillions of sentient beings contentedly…