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Socialism, Marxism, Idenity, Trans...
No Bosses: Who Earns What
No Bosses: Who Does What
Talking with Catherine Liu
Human Nature, Revolution, Jan 6...
No Bosses Who Decides What
Talking Digital with James Muldoon
No Bosses Who Owns What?
No Bosses Values for a New Economy
Talking Digital with Michael Kwet
Talking DSA with Max Elbaum
Personal and Social Calamity
21 Fallacies of Cancel Culture
Hear Arundhati Roy on Fascism
Electoral Strategy w. Lonnie Atkinson
Being Strategic
Varoufakis/Albert 5-7
Selfies, War, Organizing and More
The Logic of Transition...
Ruminations 8 War and More
Transition 3 Where To
Varoufakis/Albert 1-4
Transition 2 Where From
Consumption and Moral Judgements
Transition 1 Plus
Race, Sex, Class, Effective Struggle
Addressing DSA
Reductionism and Us
No Bosses
Book Site / All Reviews / All VideoAud
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SRSLY Wrong: No Bosses
CJP: Economy Without Bosses
Albert: Reply to Reviewers - Two
Parker: Rocks and Hard Places
Radio Free Humanity
KPFA, Against The Grain
Activism Munich 1 / 2
Albert: Reply to Reviews - 1
Stephenson: No Bosses
Froberg: Review of No Bosses
Tokar: Review of No Boss
Systemic Disorder: No Bosses
Alden: Reflections on No Bosses
Meta
Meta is a Greek/Internationalist Art & Research Centre for Post Capitalist Studies. Here we display links for some of their recent materials.
Most Recent
Albert: Clarifying the "Edges"
Parker: Rocks and Hard Places
Varoufakis: Cloud Based Capital
Shaner: Riding the Blockchain
Albert: Marxism Today and Tomorrow
Mitralexis Talk on Meta
Varoufakis, Chomsky, Pettifor
Shalom: Post Capitalist Decisions
Albert: Post Capitalism 3 /2 / 1
Hahnel: Participatory Planning
Alden: No Bosses
Debate: A postcapitalism worth striving for
Intermittent 500 word contributions by Michael Albert and Yanis Varoufakis. A ZNet document includes all entries to date, as does a Meta document.
Most Recent
7. Albert: Post Capitalism’s Components
6. Varoufakis: Five Conditions for a Democratic Workplace
5. Albert: Your Freedom Is a Condition for My Freedom and Vice Versa
Recent Audio/Videos
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Spontaneity Isn’t Enough for Real Change
By: Samir Sonti
Spontaneity isn't enough to turn labor’s dismal fortunes around
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The Ongoing Persecution of Julian Assange
By: John Shipton
John Shipton, the father of political prisoner Julian Assange, tells Lowkey about his struggle for the freedom of his son
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Confronting Labour Leader Keir Starmer
By: Audrey White
Liverpool pensioner Audrey White confronted the leader of the Labour party, Keir Starmer, scolding him publicly for his shameless war against left-wing members of the party
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
Recent Selected For Activists
A Selection of articles culled for activist purposes.
Gong: We Need Mass Organization
Macleay: Taking Over Oakland School
Grossman: Banning Nuclear Weapons
Buer: Fired up rail workers
Dąbrowiecki: Collective Housing
Herschander: Panama’s protests
Cox: Kansas Trusted Women
Helvarg: Climate Bill and Oceans
Falk: Donation Politics
Phillips: “Insulin Socialism”?
Chomsky: Fears of China’s Rise
Lawrence: Language and Its Enemies
Herschander: California farmworkers
Brown: Auto Workers Turn a Corner
White: : Climate deal with the devil
Swanson: Hiroshima and Us
Kassa: Maasai Women Resist
Amorim: : Lula’s Comeback Campaign
Bennis: Killing Ayman al Zawahiri
McConnell: Roe? Demand much more
Davis: On Death, Organizing...
McDaniel: Disrupt
Milman: GenZ Activists Rise
Johnson: Indigenous-Led Blockade
Kagarlitsky: Putin’s domestic crisis
Adler: New Constitutions
Solnit: Humanity can’t equivocate
Johnson: Handouts in Manchin Deal
Griffith: Decriminalize abortion
Herschander: ‘Cop City’ resistance
Hill: U.S. constitutional convention
Chomsky: Free Ourselves
Johnson: Big Oil Has Sabotage
Molloy: Meet the union leaders
Bradbury: Every Boss Weak Spot
Ghosh: Perfect Storm of Unrest
Conley: Mich. Students Walk Out
Bradbury: Abortion Rights Union
Kerzinski: Domestic work contracts
Albert: Sabotage: Why, When, How
Sanders: Existential threat
Conley: Occupy Schools Worldwide
Conley: Mich Students Walk Out
Meehan: Cancel Culture
Bradbury: Abortion Is a Union Issue
Walicek: Organizers win for tenants
Albert: : Shoot the Looters to Kill?
Ghosh: Global Debt Crisis
Ismailov: Workers in Russia
Pilger: Assange
Wilkins: Congressional Staffers
Bilious: Ukrainian Socialist Resists
Schuhrke: Railroad National Strike
Minus: New Union Activism
Oh: At Least There’s Joni Mitchell
Kolhatkar:Trader Joe’s Workers
Elbaum: MAGA All In. Are We?
Fleming: ‘Labour Upsurge’
Brown: Nonprofits Need Unions
First-Arai: Climate and Labor
Giroux: Nazification of Education
Canniff: Educators Win Strike
Walker: Sirport workers’ fight
Chomsky: U.S. Nonresponse
Purkayastha: Greed and Profits
Weisbrot: Preventing starvation
Singh: Ghana’s unions
Hearse: Kurds betrayed
Lopez: Politics of the Commons
Clark: Students Winning
Chomsky: US-UK ‘special relationship’
Monbiot: “Morons”
Benjamin: AMLO Against US’s Grip
Al Jazeera: Protests in Panama
Hartmann: What Will You Do
Waterson: Climate Protesters
Shalom: Ukraine & Peace Movement
Bricmont: End War in Ukraine?
Omar: Voting Isn’t Enough
Marcetic: Richer and Whiter
McKibben: Action on Climate
Stanvil: Collective Action or Suicide
Lawrence: Corporate Killing Planet
Wilkins: Fetterman Communicator
Lyderson: Nurses “Moral Injury”
Albert: Clarifying the “Edges”
Shiva: Economies of Care
Early: Democratic Primary
Nader: Students and Power
Hill: “Representation for all”
Susskind: Post-Roe Strategy
LaForge: Paying Attention
Parrott: Closures Are Retaliation
Nolan: Breaking the Bargain
Funk: Tale of Two Constitutions
Darrah: We Need Public Housing.
Chomsky: Biden’s Trip
Wilkins: Systemic Reform’ Needed
Harris: Pink Tide Surges
Bradbury: Direct Action
Herschander: Indigenous protesters
Nussbaum: Unions
Sanders: Despair is not an option
Gurtov: Water, no longer everywhere
Monbiot: Willing the End
Chomsky: Existential Threats
Thier: Federal Reserve’s Class War
Ghoshal: Band of activists Sri Lanka
Sankey: Latin America’s Second Wave
Gindin: Spontaneity Isn’t Enough
Feminist Manifesto: The right to resist
Johnson: This Is People Power
Kelly: No Starvation for Oil
Fassler: Build Power Regionally
Nohales: Chile’s New Constitution
Reich: why may Democrats lose this?
Risen: Anti-Abortion Zealots
Queally: Major Arctic Drilling
Chakraborty: Stagflation and Hunger
Wolff: Declare independence
Bryant: Community Schools
Junyent: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks
McNeill: A Baltimore Neighborhood
Corbett: Ottawa Non-Proliferation
Nolan: Radical Is Now Rational
CDS: Sri Lankan Protesters
Aviles: Collective construction
Kelly: Cultivate Hope, not Harm
Falk: European Call Ukraine War
Hershander: ‘We’re here to stay’
Daria: Mexican Berry Pickers
Marquina: Workers Bypass Blockade
Hershander: Protest at justices homes
Pepper: Third Graders
Newman: Chile’s new constitution
Chomsky: US Militarism
Carrazana: Women taking over labor
Morrison: Rebuilding Working Base
Jain: Care Workers of Rural India
Hembury: Summer of ‘22: Strike!
Tapia: Resistance in Ecuador
Solnit: Feminism Hasn’t Failed
Mazza: Start over
Lindorff: Opposition Party
Vachon: Progressive Candidates Wins
McKibben: Be the Backlash
Ross: Restore Abortion Rights
DiMaggio: A New Sense of Possibility
Marquina: Workers Take Control
Cohn: SCOTUS EPA Ruling
Johnson: Court Carbon Bomb
Wolfe: Gustavo Petro’s Historic Victory
Huff: Faculty win
Chomsky: We are an Extreme Outlier
Klein: Judicial Coup
Herschander: Creative protests
Meyer: New York DSA
Mayall: Non-Police Alternatives
Corn: Lessons From Right’s Crusade
Swanson: NATO & Russia Aim to Fail
Rubia: Growing hope for humanity
Ahn: Feminist Response to RIMPAC
Brooks: Rethinking Organizing Rules
Ellner: Jailed for Criminal Behavior?
Shadow Primary
Some Vintage Chomsky
The Chomsky sessions
February 2010.
1 - Responsibility Of Intellectuals
2 - Science, Religion, Human Nature
3 - Education and Economics
4 - The Political System
5 - International Relations