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Eco-Collapse Hasn’t Happened Yet, But You Can See It Coming
Something must be up. Otherwise, why would scientists keep sending us those scary warnings? There has been a steady stream of them in the past few years, including “World Scientists’ Warning of a...
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Freedom Under Capitalism Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Oshawa is a small Canadian city on the shoreline of Lake Ontario. It was also the hometown of the late left-wing Canadian politician Ed Broadbent, who would go on to become the national chairman of the...
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Setting Our Sights On A Third Reconstruction
“The white riot of January 6, 2021, at the US Capitol Building is impossible to understand without reference to earlier, yet strikingly similar, efforts during the First Reconstruction period. In both...
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How Labor Can Aid the Student Movement for Palestine
Since April 18, over one thousand students, faculty members, and community supporters have been arrested at college campus protests across the country. Despite fierce repression from university...
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A World in Crisis Requires We Recover the Common Good Beginning in the Places...
A world going in the wrong direction The converging crises facing our world today shout out the fact that their roots are systemic. Tinkering around the edges won’t solve these problems, because they...
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Sustainable Food Systems, Feeding Ourselves Across Europe
Brussels is currently not the most hopeful place for those wishing to see EU food systems in a fair, ecological transition. But hope is on the ground. Not waiting for the impetus to come from above,...
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Then and Now
I read an article in 2008. It recounted miraculous events and dynamics from four decades earlier. It asked, what happened to all that? What happened to the passion, inspiration, and outrage? What...
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Tackling California’s Budget Crisis: Raise Taxes, Cut Programs, or Form a Bank?
In 2022, the state of California celebrated a record budget surplus of $97.5 billion. Two years later, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office, this surplus has plummeted to a record budget...
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Climate, Energy and Natural Resources
Speech by Jason Hickel, Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE, at the 50th Anniversary Congress in Havana. Thank you to PI for organizing this event, and thank you to our Cuban hosts,...
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Organizing for Power: The Fight of Our Lives
In this interview, labor organizer, teacher and strategist Jane McAlevey turns the attention back to what YOU and all of us need to do NOW to win more and win better. Because the planet is on fire and,...
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Breaking Up With Capitalism
It’s harder to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” wrote Mark Fisher in his 2009 book Capitalist Realism. This sense pervades our culture like a dense fog, helping to create the...
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Build a Majority for Palestine
Holocaust scholar and pro-Palestine activist Norman Finkelstein expresses his support for the student protests, insisting on the importance of free speech and uniting the majority of Americans around...
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Left or Not Left?
Consider everybody in society. Some eat meat, others don’t. Some live in Spain, others in Japan. Some are rural, others urban. Countless differences separate people into “we and they groups” for one...
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What Happens When Universities Engage, Rather than Arrest, Gaza Protesters?
What if universities negotiated with students engaged in Gaza solidarity protests, instead of calling the police to violently arrest them? A mass movement opposing Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has...
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Individualism Is Destroying Our Freedom
Common sense tells us that free-market economies maximise freedom and that planned economies, typically found under socialist governments, curtail it. But what if this is completely the wrong way...
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The Demise of US Power, De-Dollarisation & the BRICS
As I write, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) is preparing a ground offensive on Rafah, Palestine . PM Netanyahu has warned for months that such an offensive was imminent. The consensus view was that US...
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Ireland Is Full… Of Berts
What is a bert? I have no clue. But recently I saw it written on a wall in Derry City where I live. To be exact, this is what was on the wall: IRELAND IS FULL OF BERTS!” It was obvious that this...
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Non-Alignment Today
The original non-alignment movement occured in 1961 following the Bandung Conference (Indonesia) held in 1955, which was attended by 29 countries, almost all of which had recently been liberated from...
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The Race to End Fossil Fuel Production
Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. This quip by the American essayist Charles Dudley Warner applies to fossil fuels as well. Everyone talks about ending fossil...
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The Toughest Job Today’s Richest Ever Face?
Once upon a time, back in the middle of the 20th century, the smallest theater on Broadway could have comfortably accommodated a get-together of all the New Yorkers worth at least $100 million. Not...
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Capitalism Attacks Argentine Workers and You May Be Next
As always when a representative of the right wing tells you he or she is campaigning to bring “freedom,” be afraid. Very afraid. For “freedom” in these cases means freedom for the richest financiers...
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The World’s Forgotten War
“Don’t worry, Séra, the entire world is watching them, they won’t be able to do anything.” “You think so?” “Of course.” In my heart of hearts, I knew I was wrong. The World Cup was about to begin in...
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Auto Workers’ Loss at Mercedes-Benz Slows the UAW Organizing Drive, but Won’t...
Mercedes-Benz succeeded in defeating the United Auto Workers (UAW) in an election held in the company’s plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, but UAW President Shawn Fain sees the defeat as a temporary setback...
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Yet More Boondoggles: Extracting Carbon Dioxide from the Air, Mining Asteroids
The dictionary doesn’t quite do justice to the word “boondoggle” according to author Dmitri Orlov, best known for his book Reinventing Collapse. A contemporary boondoggle must not only be wasteful, it...
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The Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots
Cannabis can transform our materials economy and textiles industry, return carbon to the soil, provide sustainable housing material, nurture health and well-being and set us on a path to restorative...
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Worker Co-Ops Have a Role to Play in Socialist Strategy
Copenhagen, 1910. Here, at the beginnings of social democracy’s ascent in Europe, the Second International passed a resolution supporting cooperatives. While acknowledging that cooperation alone was...
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An Oral History of The Next American Revolution: Installment 1
“The following article is excerpted from a book in progress titled An Oral History of The Next American Revolution. It includes a Foreword, an Introduction, and a short First Chapter of the book. Z...
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ICC Must Investigate British Ministers For Complicity In Gaza War Crimes
Now the International Criminal Court is seeking to issue an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, it must investigate his accomplices in the British government. Seven British ministers – including...
View ArticleTo Win Big, Labor Has to Lose More
There’s no sugarcoating it: Mercedes workers’ loss last week was a punch in the gut. Hopefully we can soon get some sober assessments from worker leaders and staff organizers about what — if anything —...
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Apocalypse Now?
Eyes open. Look around. Ears attuned. Listen up. Something is happening here, there, and everywhere. Ignore it, avoid it, deny it , whine or weep over it and it will keep happening. Fight it and...
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