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The Left Needs a New Globalization Vision to Counter the Far-Right Surge
Published: May 25, 2025 15:18
The left is in shambles everywhere while hard-right and far-right parties are riding high in polls across the world. I contend that globalization is at the heart of these developments, and thus it is critical that the left comes to terms with what has gone…
Block, Bridge, and Build: A Framework to Forge a More Democratic Future
Published: May 24, 2025 16:01
We are living through a period of upheaval. In this world of uncertainty, one thing is clear: The need for coordinated, collective action is urgent. Recently, the people at Convergence Magazine developed a very useful framework called Block and Build.…
How to Build Civic Courage
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-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…
Activists Mobilize in Colombia’s Cities in Support of Petro’s Labor Reforms
Published: May 21, 2025 16:00
Supporters of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro have organized the first community council meetings that seek to muster popular support for a referendum on labor reforms. Petro called on the people to organize the assemblies after the Senate sunk the…
Materialism Is Essential for Socialist Politics
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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…
Why Building Inspiring Alternatives is Necessary to Counter Authoritarianism
Published: May 16, 2025 16:30
We are heading down a perilous road. Vulnerable communities face growing threats. The climate crisis is outpacing scientists’ worst predictions. Authoritarianism is no longer a distant possibility — it is rising, with democracy backsliding across the…
José ‘Pepe’ Mujica: The Revolutionary Who Never Surrendered His Ideals
Published: May 16, 2025 16:30
In his condolence message on the occasion of the notable Uruguayan leader, José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, the Cuban President, Miguel Díaz-Canel, emphasised: ‘His extraordinary life recalls the dark era of Washington-backed military dictatorships’. This reminder is…
Climate Sanctions Against Fossil-Addicted Capitalists
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-sanctions-against-fossil-addicted-capitalists/
Published: May 15, 2025 15:58
The implications of climate-unjust politics are ever more important to interpret and resist. United States President Donald Trump, an unabashed ‘climate denialist’, withdrew his country, the main historic emitter of greenhouse gases, from United Nations…
Radical Democracy Needs More Than Just Resisting Fascism, It Needs Infrastructure
Published: May 15, 2025 15:57
Henry Giroux joins Dick Price and Sharon Kyle of the LA Progressive to discuss the need for a radical democracy. He brings up important questions followed by even more important answers. Giroux says, “Disposable populations are no longer hidden in the…
The Four-Day Workweek: Possibility or Pipedream?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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…
Trade Unions Need To Move Beyond Trying To Secure Fair Wages
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trade-unions-need-to-move-beyond-trying-to-secure-fair-wages/
Published: May 15, 2025 15:54
Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist and the leader of the DiEM25, the left-wing, pan-European political alliance that he co-founded in 2016 with the Croatian philosopher Srećko Horvat with the aim of “democratising Europe”. Varoufakis came to prominence…
Sabotage Is On The Menu
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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…
Democratic Employee Ownership For a Resilient Canadian Economy
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/democratic-employee-ownership-for-a-resilient-canadian-economy/
Published: May 13, 2025 16:00
The US government’s escalating trade war has forced us to quickly rethink and prepare to reorient Canada’s economy. Discussions have thus far focused on developing new export markets and reducing barriers to interprovincial trade. These are important…
Sri Lanka’s Left in the Tariff Trap
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sri-lankas-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
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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 US Is in Free Fall, But We Can Turn Things Around by Valuing Our Neighbors Over Money
Published: May 12, 2025 16:25
The United States is often revered as the most powerful nation in the world. The U.S. has a strong economy; the most equipped military on the planet; a working class of over 130 million people; the biggest GDP of any nation; and large music, film,…
The Left Has to Speak to Average American Values — or Perish
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-left-has-to-speak-to-average-american-values-or-perish/
Published: May 11, 2025 11:10
As pundits debate whether inflation or cultural grievance drove high numbers of working-class voters into Donald Trump’s embrace, legal scholar Joan C. Williams suggests a new approach to the problem. In her book Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working…
The Oilworkers’ Plan
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-lefts-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
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/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…
From Farm to Factory: What Actually Constitutes Good Work?
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-farm-to-factory-what-actually-constitutes-good-work/
Published: May 7, 2025 17:58
Trade unions and progressive movements rightly demand better wages and working conditions for employees to improve society. But the question of what good work actually means is rarely asked. And how everyone can benefit from it. “Good work” cannot be…