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Chomsky: A Green New Deal Can Create Jobs and Livelihoods
On Labor, Climate, and the Long Way Forward
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Chatzidakis: Time to expand our caring imagination
It’s time to demand a radically more caring world – towards both people and planet
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Silverstein: Family abolition is about extending love and care to everyone
The pandemic shows how we need to rethink care beyond outdated and inadequate family structures and precariously employed workers
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Fang: Small Business Rescue Money Flowing to Major Trump Donors
Major donors to President Donald Trump’s presidential reelection campaign have won coveted loans from the Paycheck Protection Program
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May: Hospital Workers Like Me Are Waging a War Against Coronavirus. Where Is Our GI Bill?
Every Covid-19 patient admitted to the hospital will be cared for by a team of professionals who, theoretically, have over $1 million in combined student debt
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Helvarg: How Did We Get From Earth Day To Trump?
Fifty years after the first Earth Day, the connection between the environment and human health has never been more obvious
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Interview on the lessons learned from the last decade on the Left – from Occupy Wall Street to Syriza, Podemos, Corbyn and Bernie Sanders
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Borosage: Building on the Bernie Movement in Coronavirus Time
Sanders won’t let the people who power the movement he started waste their votes
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Heath: UN Chief Says There’s a Bigger Threat than Coronavirus
In Earth Day speech, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres challenges President Donald Trump on fossil fuel subsidies and climate change
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Giroux: Militarization in the Age of the Pandemic Crisis
The language of war is used by the mandarins of power to both address the indiscriminate viral pandemic that has brought capitalism to its knees and to reinforce and expand the political formations and global financial system that are incapable of dealing with the pandemic
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Abunimah: EU backs off warning to Israel over West Bank annexation
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in February that Israeli annexation of the West Bank “could not pass unchallenged.” But he now appears to have backed off.
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We have been shut out of most of the UK’s open land for centuries. It’s time this changed.
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Pitt: Take Care of Yourself and Your Family
Take care of yourself and your family, and do not listen to the president when he tells you all is well. All is not well, yet this too shall pass, and I’ll meet you on the high ground
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Ruiz: NYC Immigrant Communities & Mutual Aid
Organizing and helping through mutual aid despite extraordinarily difficult circumstances
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Risen: Covid-19 Highlights Trump’s Malignant Narcissism
— And Proves Americans Will Survive Despite Him
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Pilkington: Mass Incarceration Could Add 100,000 Deaths to US Coronavirus Toll
Only 5% of more than 10m arrests in the US each year are for violent offences. Most people ending up in jail are there for low-level infractions, including failure to meet bail terms
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De Luna Navarro: Undocumented Workers Need a Bailout, Too
Beyond performing essential labor, we are humans — and, in a pandemic, that should be enough to deserve help
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Moses: Aren’t We All in This Together? College Students Told Hell No
The Trump instinct for divide and conquer was achieved, once again, with astonishing speed and finality
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Sun: 10 Ways to Make the Change You Want
There’s a lot to learn from our fellow human beings’ efforts toward peace and justice. If we pay attention, stay alert, and take notes, we might find our own work for change grows in power, strength, and wisdom
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de Sousa Santos: Virus: All that is Solid Melts into Air
Since the 1980s—as neoliberalism established itself as the leading version of capitalism, which in its turn became increasingly dependent on the logic of the financial sector—the world has been living in a permanent state of crisis
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Prashad: The Mutilated World Is Moved by the Nurses and Doctors
Even in the most threadbare health systems, cannibalized by austerity, it is the nurses and doctors, the ambulance paramedics and the janitors, who have been heroic in their work
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Rasmus: An Economic Recovery Program—Theirs vs. Mine
While focus has been on addressing the biological devastation wrought by the virus, the economic devastation keeps growing
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Brecher: First U.S. Union-Authorized Climate Strike?
If Local 26 is forced to strike again, one thing is clear: It will do so not only as the representative of its own members, but as the champion of everyone who knows they are threatened by climate change
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Roy: India, Narendra Modi, and the Coronavirus
Is the far-right government of Narendra Modi exploiting the crisis to target Muslims and the media?
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Interview on the failures of the conservative party in dealing with the coronavirus crisis, the need of the EU to unify or disintegrate and the future of the left in Europe
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Ocasio-Cortez: Reading Green New Deal
"So today, what I would like to do is to read the Green New Deal resolution for all those who are interested…"
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Fathers: The Day Democracy Died
Some of the Founders and Framers of the Constitution did more than turn over in their graves... they actually resurfaced to sing “The Day Democracy Died.”
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Truckers: Drive-By Truckers – “Thoughts and Prayers”
A searing musical rejoinder to the "thoughts and prayers" reaction to gun violence, from the Drive-By Truckers new album, "The Unraveling"
Recent Blogs
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Wittner: If Farmworkers Are “Essential,” Why Are They Treated So Badly?
On March 19, 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,...
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Wittner: Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Help Curb War and Militarism?
Decades ago, when I began teaching international history, I used...
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We live with a profound paradox. Our lives are powerfully...
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Santamaria: Infected or sick? Infected or ill?
In Spain around 80.000 people are infected, or sick, and...
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RevolutionZ Podcast features vision, strategy, election 2020, and diverse guests, all free by way of popular podcast apps and our RevolutionZ Archive. Below are a selection of indicative Episodes for instant access.
Journalism with Greg Wilpert
Participatory Education
Participatory Journalism
Participatory Health
Talking with Norman Solomon
Talking with Noam Chomsky 1
Writing with Justin Podur
Debate and Vituperation
Visual Art with Jerry Fresia
Music and Art with Sandy Carter
Participatory Art, Film, Music
Organizing with Vincent Emanuele
Ecology with Brian Tokar
Participatory Ecology or Extinction
Transition with Greg Wilpert
Community 3 with Bill Fletcher
Community 2 with Justin Podur
Participatory Community/Culture 1
Parpolity 3 with Stephen Shalom
Parpolity 2 with Stephen Shalom
Participatory Polity 1
ParKinship 2 with Cynthia Peters
Participatory Kinship
Class Rule or Classlessness
Reformism, Seeds of the Future
Highlighted Content for Activists
Fletcher: Reopen business?
Ruiz: Mutual Aid
De Luna Navarro: Workers Bailout
Thunberg: Not Lost Hope
Hightower:Economic Disease
Solomon: Progressives in Denial
Pierskalla: My Death
Kimberley: Cooperation Humboldt
Glick: Turbulent Future
Smalls: Amazon Strikes
McKibbon: Wrecking the Planet
Collins: Sorry We Missed You
Goldfield: “The people show up”
Benjamin: Ventilator or Cloud
Telles: Brazil basic income policy
Grosso: New York During
Brown: Universal Basic Income
Theoharis: Inequality & Corona
Davidson: Barbarism
Krishna: Kerala's Covid Curve
Frank: Fire drill for future
Nader: Cowardly Congress
Oduor: Working-class solidarity
Albert: DSers, DSAers and 2020
Raptis: Not So Strange Hate
Hallinan: India & Coronavirus
Gold: De-Funding WHO
Jacobs: Pandemic and Protest
Buell: Nurses Unite
Corbett: Cancel Rent & Mortgages
Rasmus: Forgotten Workers
Falk: Pandemic
Star: Labour’s leaked report
Chomsky: Gangster in Charge
Fletcher: Defeat Trump
Taylor: The Black Plague
NAFSN: Land, food & destiny
Roy: COVID-19 in India
Luce: Essential Work
Lord: Taxing Billionaires
Fitz: Cuba: Health History
Brecher: Make the Damn Masks!
Anderson: Viral Academia
Solomon: Trump Must Lose
Kolhatkar: Can Democracy Survive
Bozuwa: Public Takeover
Cole:Organizing Effort in PA
Chomsky: Bosses and Coronavirus
Benjamin: Non-Essential Activity
Dying to Keep Everyone Alive
Chomsky: On COVID-19
Davis: The struggles of tomorrow
Albert: Who Knows?
Lennard: Domestic Violence
Jackson: Toward a General Strike
Garcia: We are cheap labour
Emanuele: New Normal
Halimi: Do it now. Right away
Garcia: Community vs. COVID-19
Wehrmann: Climate after corona
Ott: Bailout the Pension System
Benjamin: Work Stoppage
Hertsgaard: Pandemic Watchdogs
Burley: Mutual aid networks
Gindin: The Crisis This Time
Kampf-Lassin: The Future
Fields: Postal Workers
Chomsky: Imagine Different World
Gibbs: EPA A License To Kill
Greenwald: Not Privileged
Melandri: letter from Italy
Albert: Surviving & Going Beyond
Bonfert: Under lockdown
Sanders: Unprecedented Crisis
Chomsky: Sanders Campaign
Anderson: Disabled Activists
Crosby: GE Workers Walked Out
Sanders: On Ending His Campaign
Glick: Camus’ Plague, and Our Own
AOC: Deaths of Inequality
ER: Love & Rage in Times of Corona
Roig: Spain basic income
Davis: Radical Work of Healing
Elbaum: The People’s Bailout
Davis: Housing Not Shelters
Baroud: Surviving quarantine
Segal: Genuine care?
Kolhatkar: Capitalism
Swanson: Actual Defense
Schwarz: Harness Legitimate Rage
Solomon: Bernie 2020 Campaign
Prins: Wall Street Wins — Again
Wallace: Highly Contagious Idea
Selected Election Coverage
Daniels: Why Sander’s Faltered
Albert: DSers, DSAers and 2020
Sanders: We Are Winning
Solomon: ‘Eye Begins to See’
Albert: No Surrender
Chomsky: Sanders and Movements
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Debate and Vituperation
Albert: Lesser Evil and Independence
Hawkins: Lesser Evil or Independence
Albert: Battle Strategically
Hawkins: Every State a Battleground
Green Party: Trying to Shut Us Up
Open Letter to the Green Party
Recent Comments
- owlishdog on Why Bernie Sander’s Campaign Mattered….And Faltered
- Anarcissie on Why Bernie Sander’s Campaign Mattered….And Faltered
- Ray Ballisti on Old SDSers, New DSAers, and Trump vs. Biden
- Victor ia la mia on Mexico’s Sugar Skull Artists
- David Dobereiner on Old SDSers, New DSAers, and Trump vs. Biden
- Max on Labour’s leaked report records a class struggle for control of the party
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- John reynolds on Coronavirus and Small Government Sociopathy
- Michael on COVID-19 and the Wasting Disease of Normalcy
- Peter Zeftel on Bernie’s Pivot for Biden Isn’t Pleasant. But Trump Must Be Defeated.
Albert Essay Series on Socialist Upsurge
Oldest essays at top, Newest at bottom
New Direction?
Ethics of It / Judging Societies
Society’s Pie / Disputing Pie Slices
Property Problem / Who Decides?
Who Does What? / Balanced Jobs
Disputing Balancing Jobs
Classlessness? / Markets or what?
Participatory Planning
Disputing Participatory Planning
Judging Participatory Socialism
Some Strategic Implications
The Polity / Community and Culture
Gender and Sexuality
Socialism or Participatory Society
Socialism: Ecology or Nothing