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Building 21st-Century Rank-and-File Unionism

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Published: June 14, 2026 11:46

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, a number of members of the American New Left that had incubated on college campuses in the prior decade set out to take rank-and-file jobs as blue-collar workers. The social and political ferment of the ’60s — including


We Economists Have Done the Maths: ‘growth’ is a Doomed Strategy – There is a Better Way

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Published: June 12, 2026 15:51

We live in an age of manufactured scarcity. In a world richer than ever before, roughly one 10th of the world’s population still lives in extreme destitution. Millions of people cannot afford enough food, proper housing or basic healthcare, while a tiny


Ordinary Insanity

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Published: June 12, 2026 15:48

This film presents a synthesis of my father’s book The Doomsday Machine. His book depicts the evil murderousness of nuclear war plans, and the particular dangers posed by ICBMS, with their first strike capability, intended to be launched on warning. He


How to Win the Nation’s Highest Minimum Wage

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Published: June 11, 2026 15:59

Tourism workers in Southern California just won a historic battle for the highest minimum wage in the nation—a perfect counterpoint to the Republican-led tax bill that rewards billionaires at the expense of low-income Medicaid recipients. The union-backed


‘Intersectionality’ Scholar KimberlĂ© Crenshaw Thinks It’s Time For Everyone To Talk Back

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Published: June 11, 2026 15:58

In a new memoir, the legal expert shares how her experiences as a Black woman gave rise to frameworks the far-right has tried to weaponize. A teacher who wouldn’t cast her as a princess in a kindergarten skit shaped KimberlĂ© Crenshaw’s views. So did her


Reforming Capitalism Is Not Enough

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Published: June 9, 2026 16:31

Victorian Trades Hall is the oldest continuously operating trades hall in the world. And even before it was constructed, in 1856, the stonemasons and building workers of Melbourne downed their tools and marched for the eight-hour day — eight hours of


Visiting Time Past: What is to be Undone?

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Published: June 9, 2026 16:30

I was recently surveying my computer’s contents and I came across the text of a book I had written over a half century ago. It was published in 1974 by a small progressive publisher named for its founder, Porter Sargent, located in Boston Mass. I turned, I


Under Mamdani, New York Will Be first to Open Free Childcare Center for City Workers

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Published: June 9, 2026 16:30

Tucked in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s sprawling universal childcare plan is a little-talked-about milestone: In September, the city will open what appears to be the first free daycare for municipal workers in the country.  The center, called The


What Could “Sewer Socialism” Look Like in Berlin?

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Published: June 9, 2026 16:30

On 26 September, 2025 one of Berlin’s longest sagas came to an end. After 15 years, 4 years over schedule, the renovation of Karl-Marx-Strasse finally ended. City hall opened its doors, the district mayor gave a speech—the authorities even put up an


Defining Trumpism, Defeating Trump

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Published: June 8, 2026 16:49

“Defining Trumpism, defeating Trump” is based on talks given by Paul Le Blanc in Potsdam, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Mannheim, during a May speaking tour in Germany. It is appearing simultaneously on LINKS and Communis. I will begin this presentation with a