Newest Activism

• Davis-Cohen: Mutual Aid Response During Fires Shows Black Lives Matter Is Building Community

  “We have come together efficiently and quickly because we know each other.”
• Madeloni: New York City Teachers Work Outdoors after a Co-Worker Tests Positive

  When New York City educators were supposed to be in their third day of “professional development” held inside school buildings, teachers and other staffers at a Queens middle school, IS 230, took their work outside.
• Moore: When Police Repression is Not Enough

  A U.S. Corporation is Suing Guatemala to Crush Local Mining Opposition
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  Brecher: Workers vs. the Coronavirus Depression

  This summer has seen two significant national strike actions–for Black Lives and for safe reopening of schools. These are hardly conventional strikes–indeed, they represent historically unprecedented forms of protest
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  Elbaum: Socialist Strategy and the Biden Debate

  The left forces whose strategy translates into sending the first message have much better prospects to grow their ranks and expand their influence, power and coalition relationships
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  Monbiot: Extinction Rebellion is showing Britain what real democracy could look like

  The protest movement’s call for meaningful participation highlights the failings of dysfunctional Westminster politics
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  Adler: Internationalism or extinction

  The Progressive International is convening its inaugural Summit this weekend to reclaim our shared future
• Loong-Yu: Hong Kong in Revolt

  Interview on the development of the protest movement in his place of birth over the past two decades, setting them within the context of broader political trends in mainland China and beyond
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  Cunningham-Cook: North Carolina Nurses Win Union in Landslide After Bitter Opposition

  HCA Healthcare had brought in a phalanx of union-busting firms to intimidate nurses into voting no
• Mendelson: Feminists Take Over Federal Building in Mexico City and Use Painting as a Weapon

  In protest of femicide, the artists painted over portraits of all-male historical figures hanging in the National Human Rights Commission
• Hyman: New Fossil Fuel Projects Meet Indigenous Resistance in New Mexico

  “They’ve always put a price tag on our forehead, and just expect us to be quiet”
• Stamenova: Why miners in Ukraine’s longest city are holding an underground strike

  Under a media blackout, mine workers in Ukraine are refusing to come up from their mines - for wages, better conditions and an end to poor management.
• Contributors: A 10-Point Pledge to Social, Racial and Economic Justice

  We will move forward together and we will accept nothing but freedom. We will not take one step back, and we will bring a new day to our beloved country
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  Chomsky: There’s Reason for Hope

  The Black Lives Matter movement is the biggest social movement in American history with support beyond anything that’s ever been registered in the past. It’s not alone. It’s a sign of substantial changes in popular consciousness
• Libardi: Amazon heroes who don’t give up

  The Guardians of the Forest, a group of indigenous Guajajara in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, struggle to defend their land from invaders and to guarantee their survival in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Guinan: In and against, and outside, the party

  Following major defeats, the left on both sides of the Atlantic must urgently get stuck into community organising, movement building and political education
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  Speri: A Progressive Prosecutor Faces Off With Portland’s Aggressive Police

  Portland’s new district attorney said he wouldn’t prosecute most protesters. Police kept arresting them anyway.
• Jay: Who Will Win – a Conscious People or Anti-Democratic Elites?

  Interview about the state of the peoples’ movement
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  Olivier: Meet the Students Trying to Organize the First Campus-Wide Undergraduate Union

  Inside the groundbreaking student organizing drive at Kenyon College
• Barber II: “Trump Is Criminality Personified”

  Interview on protecting the vote and mobilizing the Poor