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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...
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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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A Crowd-Sourced Global Policy Cloud for a World Revolution
Humanity is in an existential crisisi. While capitalism is enabling the elite to accumulate capitalii whilst knowing the risk of civilizational collapse, many organizations are fighting to avoid mass...
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Why the Alabama Mercedes Union Campaign Faltered
I’m still hot as hell three days after losing a union election at the Mercedes factory complex in Alabama. After years of laying a foundation and six months of 100 percent dedication and putting...
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Gaza Matters, and Democracy is Functional: On the Latest Democracy Perception...
The Democracy Perception Index (DPI) issued its 2024 report on May 8, revealing important and interesting shifts in global perceptions about democracy, geopolitics and international relations. The...
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Learning the Right Lessons From the UAW Loss in Alabama
Late last Friday afternoon, Shawn Fain, president of the UAW, addressed workers at the Mercedes SUV plant in Vance, Alabama, after the union failed in a representation election (2,054 votes in favor,...
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Elizabeth Fiedler Is Uniting Labor and Environmental Leaders
Robert Bair would probably be the first to admit that his participation in a Pennsylvania House Blue-Green Caucus news conference this month may have once seemed unlikely. The president of the...
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An Oral History of The Next American Revolution: Installment 2, First Breaths
[Author’s Note: This is the second excerpt from a work titled An Oral History of the Next American Revolution. This chapter will also provide the substance for a forthcoming RevolutionZ episode...
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The ANC and South Africa’s Radical Left, 30 Years After the First...
On the eve of South Africa’s May 29 general elections, Federico Fuentes spoke to veteran South African socialist Mazibuko Jara about the African National Congress’s (ANC) prospects of holding onto...
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Debrief with May Boeve
The coming years are often referred to as our last chance to get on track to co-existing with our planet — the “decisive decade” is a term used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Many...
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Their Past, Our Future?
What does it mean to “be on the left”? While the answer means different things to different people and can involve lengthy debate and discussion, all of which is fine, I boil it down to something very...
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What Does Left Internationalism Mean in the 21st Century?
Israel’s genocide in Gaza has put international concerns front and center for the US left today. Jacobin spoke with three leading internationalist organizers about how leftists should think about...
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Back to Basics: The Fundamentals of Community Organizing
In a new pamphlet, veteran organizer George Goehl lays out the core practices organizers shouldn’t leave behind, even as we seek to evolve the craft of organizing. In 2023, Jenn Carrillo and I began...
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The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left
The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left by Boris Kagarlitsky Foreword by Patrick Bond Pluto Press, order here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745350288/the-long-retreat/ Since...
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