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Recognizing the Libraries We Lost, and Still Have: A Grandmother's Legacy of Black Ecological Wisdom

Nikki Woods explores the deep ecological connections forged through surviving enslavement and its aftermath, as well as throughout African history.

Nikki Woods

Endless Growth Serves the Powerful, Not the Global Poor.

A common objection to calls for demand reduction and degrowth comes from defenders of the status quo:

Tim Hjersted

Why Degrowth Eco-socialism?

The case for a better future

TheLastFarm

A Commoners' Manifesto: 24 Articles on How Commons Can Change the World

A commons world is decentralised, stable and unified, not statist, growth-obsessed and 'left’. I’d like to persuade the left away from statist ‘solutions’, and yes, to recruit the 'right' as well – why not?

Dave Darby

The Epstein Class: They Are the Elites They Pretend to Hate

When given the opportunity to seek justice for countless women and children who were trafficked, abused, and exploited by the world’s wealthiest, most powerful people, the MAGA movement and its leaders have shown a startling disinterest in accountability.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Four Lessons From the Fight Against Trump and ICE in Minneapolis

As the fight against the administration's anti-immigrant offensive continues, here are four lessons we can draw from the experience.

Sou Mi

Why Every City Needs a Public Bank

“We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank that puts our money to work for our people.”— Zohran Mamdani, Victory Speech, Nov. 4, 2025

Ellen Brown

Renewables Can't Fix The Infinite Growth Problem. We Need a Bigger Focus on Reducing Demand.

Here's how to reduce electricity demand while improving quality of life.

TheLastFarm

Six Eco-Socialist Ideas Zohran Can Pursue Right Now

These policies are fully within the new mayor's power and would visibly improve daily life in New York without waiting on Albany.

TheLastFarm

Healing the Earth, One Community at a Time

Eight years ago, the Ecosystem Restoration Communities (ERC) movement began with a simple but powerful belief: that everyday people everywhere could restore the land beneath their feet and, in doing so, restore hope for our shared future.

Ecosystem Restoration Communities Staff

Rojava’s Experiment in Revolutionary Autonomy Is Facing Its Greatest Threat Yet

“Revolution is not a paradise on earth. It is a constant process of change, with obstacles and shortcomings,” Felix Weber, a member of the Internationalist Commune in Rojava, told me. “The difference is that people here don’t pull back from the obstacles but try to overcome...

Shane Burley

Ending the Surge in Minnesota Isn’t Enough

Justice will require a wave of impeachments, criminal charges, and restitution to the people of the Twin Cities.

Ben Burgis

Trump's Cruelty Is the Point: Making America Vicious and Unwelcoming Whether You Live Here or Not

In the first year of Trump’s second term as president, it’s become clear that, for those seeking, or even granted, asylum, the United States is no longer a safe place.

Rebecca Gordon

A Revolutionary Intercommunal Mutualist Critique of Colin Jenkin's Black Panther Party “Blueprint” Frame

An addendum to "An Ideal Blueprint: The Original Black Panther Party Model and Why It Should be Duplicated" by Colin Jenkins (2014), posted by Films For Action

United Panther Party – U.S.

Sex Trafficking Prosecutions Won’t Stop the Next Epstein. Here’s What Will.

We can fight child sexual abuse using a block-and-build strategy rooted in economic, racial, and gender justice.

Chanelle Gallant, Shannon Perez-Darby

The Patriarch in Winter: Grief, Complicity, and the Unraveling of Noam Chomsky's Final Years

In Pirates and Emperors, Noam Chomsky retells the story from St. Augustine’s City of God in which a pirate, captured by Alexander the Great, is asked how he dares to molest the sea. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replies. “Because I do it with a little ship...

Jonathan de Noche

We Can Move Beyond the Capitalist Model and Save the Climate – Here Are the First Three Steps

Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratize our economy and a better world is within our grasp.

Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis

A Glossary of American Myths

Myths are often treated as ahistorical, but here they are understood as alive and operating as memory systems that organize power in the present. This glossary names 100 and their function. They are the stories we live inside, defined.

Naya Diaz

“A Revolutionary Shift Is Underway”

It is time for each state to immediately review and suspend all ties with Israel. Their military, strategic, political, diplomatic, economic, relations – both imports and exports – and to make sure that their private sector, insurers, banks, pension funds, and universities do...

Francesca Albanese

Trump's ICE Goons Are Targeting Hard Workers, Our Friends, Neighbors, and Families—Not the 'Worst of the Worst'

Showing that only 14% of 400,000 people arrested by federal agents have violent criminal records, leaked figures from the Department of Homeland Security have not received the news coverage they deserve.

Robert Reich

Trump and Vance Can’t Be 'Pro-Life' While Committing Violence Against Children

Children aren’t exempt from ICE’s violence. And for administration hardliners, that’s the point.

Jordan Liz

Notes to a Friend on “Performative Activism” and Cultivating Liberation Culture

The left has absorbed right-wing frameworks that undermine our efforts, often making our spaces inaccessible and unwelcoming to new people, writes Chris Crass. Liberation culture encourages us to become and be the leaders we needed, or wish we had, when we were new.

Chris Crass

Want to Stop ICE? Run for School Board. Run for County Supervisor. Run for State Rep.

These overlooked offices control the budgets, databases, and cooperation that make the terror possible—or impossible.

Kelly Dietrich

An Injury to Immigrant Workers Is an Injury to All Workers

The Trump administration claims that its assault on immigrants will protect American workers. But its masked, armed federal agents are creating hostile environments for all workers, not just immigrants.

Sarah Lazare

Noam Chomsky's Wife Responds to Epstein Controversy

"Noam’s overly trusting nature, in this specific case, led to severe poor judgment on both our parts... we express our unrestricted solidarity with the victims," Valéria Chomsky writes.

Valéria Chomsky

When Racism Becomes Spectacle: Distraction in an Age of Climate Crisis

In the end, the question is not whether a single post is offensive—it is whether we allow cycles of warranted outrage to consume the very attention required for collective survival.

Peter Scaramuzzo

Gallego Says ‘Grind the Country to a Halt’ With National Strike If Trump Tries to Rig Midterms

“We need to make sure that we have an ultimate response to that which, I believe, has to be a true national strike,” he said.

Brad Reed

The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

If you want a more progressive Democratic Party, the California governor ain't it.

Norman Solomon

Why Isn't News of Trump Building Vast Concentration Camps Being Treated as a National Emergency?

History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people.

Thom Hartmann

Does Nonviolence Really "Protect the State"?

Why the popular anarchist critique gets strategic resistance backwards—and what actually threatens power

Tim Hjersted

Meet the Top 7 Oligarchs Controlling Your Online News

The internet has not democratized news in any meaningful way; instead, the media monopoly has simply migrated to digital spaces.

Caitlin Scialla

Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight

Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.

Jackie Summers

Nonviolent Movements Not Only Win — They Win Faster

Nonviolent resistance movements are not only more likely to succeed than their violent counterparts — they also tend to achieve success more quickly.

Stockholm University Communications Office

Field Notes for Cracking an Empire

How to stay alive when the fight arrives at your door.

Jackie Summers

In Defence of a Basic Land Income

The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario.

Manuel Casal Lodeiro

How to Build a Real General Strike Against ICE

Minnesota shows what’s possible—here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE

Eric Blanc

Putting a Stop To The Cowardly Democratic Party

With few exceptions, the Democratic Party apparatus is coasting, playing “it safe,” and expecting that the Trumpsters will deliver the Congress to it in November.

Ralph Nader

How Did MLK Jr. Become a Socialist?

A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all

Eric Blanc

10 Rules of Resistance for #ICEOut

Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.

Rivera Sun

The Two Reflexes That Are Breaking the Left

Values keep movements honest, while a material approach gets results, and there’s a time and place for both.

Mehran Khalili

Why Aren't the Largest U.S. Labor Unions Calling a General Strike Against ICE?

As Minneapolis leads a heroic fightback against ICE, our national unions must follow their example by organizing toward a general strike.

Mike Pappas, Daniel Nath

Will Democrats Ever Learn How to Beat Trump on the Immigration Issue?

Not only is the president's policy cruel and inhumane, it’s also not what the American people, including the white working-class, want.

Les Leopold

Majestic Scorn: a City Aflame Fights Fire and ICE

Despite the specious swapping out of fascist ICE leaders seeking to quell public fury, the gutted, steadfast denizens of Minneapolis continue to show up in frigid weather to demand "ICE Out" and "Stop Killing Us." Honoring their righteous struggle, Friday sees the city...

Abby Zimet

Power Anywhere Where There’s People! (1969)

Power anywhere where there’s people. Power anywhere where there’s people. Let me give you an example of teaching people. Basically, the way they learn is observation and participation. You know a lot of us go around and joke ourselves and believe that the masses have PhD’s...

Fred Hampton

Our Greatest Opponent Is the Belief That Nothing Can Change

The first battle is the battle of the spirit.

Tim Hjersted

Debunking the Myth That We’re Not Ready for a National Shutdown

This call is very much in the history of how general strikes have emerged in this country since the mid 19th century.

Eugene Puryear

An Urgent Warning to America, From German Grannies Against the Far Right

Dear American Citizens,

Grans-United

The Senate Must Not Fund ICE

The money fueling ICE’s abuses comes directly out of the pockets of working Americans who are already struggling.

Sonali Kolhatkar

House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too

“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.

Sharon Zhang

Fascism Will Be Stopped By Organized, Collective Refusal to Cooperate with Authoritarian Systems

Firearms may feel like instruments of resistance, but they do not create the collective capacity required to confront either state or corporate power. Organized labor—strikes, boycotts, mass noncompliance, & withdrawal of labor—by contrast, operates at the level Friedrich...

Rachel Hoopsick

Hitler Didn't Win Because Germans Chose Nonviolence—He Won Because They Chose Compliance

The problem wasn't the method of resistance. It was the near-total absence of sustained, mass-scale resistance of any kind.

Tim Hjersted

After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year, These Popular Rebellions Offer Hope

Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.

Sarah van Gelder

Lancet Study Warns Plastics Could Cost Humanity 83 Million Years of Healthy Life

A study published in the Lancet Planetary Health highlights how humanity's continued reliance on plastics—which are primarily derived from planet-heating fossil fuels—is expected to harm global health over the next couple of decades.

Jessica Corbett

1,000+ Organizations to Congress: ‘No Funds for ICE and Border Patrol’

"How many more people have to die, how many more lies have to be told, and how many more children must be used as bait and abducted?"

Jake Johnson

US and EU Sanctions Have Killed 38 Million Since 1970

Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.

Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan, Omer Tayyab

ICE Cannot Be Reformed—It Must Be Abolished

Here are 5 calls to action you can take now to help protect our neighbors.

Qasim Rashid

Strike, Strike, Strike

The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down — strikes.

Chris Hedges

The Last Election

The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.

Chris Hedges

Imperial Boomerang

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province.

Chris Hedges

"This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed" and Other Objections to Strategic Nonviolence

We need to examine nonviolent resistance critically. But dismissing it based on misconceptions about how it functions, or romanticizing armed struggle while ignoring its failures, leaves movements unprepared for the work ahead.

Tim Hjersted

Social Strikes: How Mass Strikes and People Power Uprisings Provide a Last Defense Against MAGA Tyranny

The history of social strikes demonstrate that, no matter what tyrants may do, ultimately the people have the means to defeat them.

Jeremy Brecher, Alex Caputo-Pearl & Jackson Potter

Why Nonviolent Resistance Doesn't Require Your Opponent to Have a Conscience

If nonviolence required tyrants to grow a heart, we'd be finished, because violence is exactly what they're begging for. History shows we beat them by withdrawing pillars of support until they're forced to concede.

Tim Hjersted

Another Murder in Minneapolis

Trump's domestic army continues its rampage. We must fight back.

Robert Reich

'Groundbreaking': Michigan Sues Big Oil 'Cartel' for Conspiracy to Block Renewable Energy

Michigan is taking on Big Oil in a groundbreaking lawsuit, accusing companies of operating as a "cartel" to impede the transition to clean power and transportation.

Jessica Corbett

Federal Agent Tells Maine ICE Observer She's Going in 'Nice Little Database' for 'Domestic Terrorists'

Federal agent in Maine labels legal observer a "domestic terrorist" for recording, sparking outrage.

Brad Reed

We Are All Minnesota

Trump thought Minnesotans would be pushovers and great “performance fodder” as televised victims of his version of macho violence. He was wrong.

Mary Papenfuss

Every Nation in the World Should Reject Trump's Absurd and Dangerous 'Board of Peace'

Refusal to join will be an act of national self-respect. The UN-based international order, however flawed, should be repaired through law and cooperation, not replaced by a gilded caricature.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

Are We Killing Ourselves With Bad News?

My friends, stay informed. Stay engaged. Be aware. Don’t fall into apathy. But please, don’t let the bad news kill you. We need you here to help twist the plot.

John Pavlovitz

Masculine Strength Doesn't Need Redefining: It's True Purpose Was Always to Serve Life, Not Power

The conversation about masculinity has long been poisoned by those who mistake dominance for strength and conquest for achievement. This corruption is not new—it is the logic of tyrants and slavemasters that men of conscience have resisted throughout history.

Tim Hjersted

Dear Trump voters: A Quick Point of Clarification about the Left

Progressives vote for Democrats because they make better opponents, are less opposed to our goals, and do less harm than Republicans, but we also see that they are beholden to corporate and imperial power just like Republicans and both parties must ultimately be confronted.

Tim Hjersted

The Project Is to Reclaim the Commons. The Place to Start Is in Our Communities.

The city is the solution.

Patrick Mazza

Abolish ICE—and DHS Too

The reality is that while ICE’s violence has become more public, what we are seeing today is not a deviation from how it has always acted. .

Jordan Liz

You Can’t Train Away ICE’s Terror

Investments toward a more trained immigration force will only uphold and legitimize mass deportation, family separation, and state terror.

Jaboa Lake

When Will Democrats Realize That You Can't Reform Fascism?

The problem is Democratic fecklessness—and it isn’t limited to just the future of ICE. Dismantling the ICE regime needs to be the floor, not the ceiling, and any Democrat in Congress who doesn’t get with the program can—and should—be replaced in the primaries.

Will Bunch

Ending Republican Control Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership

The Democratic establishment shuns the progressive populism that’s vital to effectively counter bogus right-wing populism. And so, the fight to defeat the fascistic GOP and the fight to overcome the power of corporate Democrats are largely the same fight.

Norman Solomon

The Gospel According to ICE: How Christians Betray The Faith They Claim to Follow

There’s a profound contradiction at the heart of contemporary American Christianity: the disconnect between claimed allegiance to Jesus and actual allegiance to state power.The irony is devastating when Christians defend ICE killings and deaths in custody with appeals to “law...

Tim Hjersted

The Socialist Case for AI: Defining Our Yes

There's a pattern in left politics that's both understandable and ultimately self-defeating: we're brilliant at articulating what we oppose, but often struggle to define what we're for. We can catalog the horrors of capitalism and empire in exhaustive detail, but when pressed...

Tim Hjersted

1 Year in, Trump Already Has His Own Fascist Paramilitary Squad

ICE tactics are designed to instill fear in people and create chaos in communities as part of an overarching strategy aimed to silence opposition to Trump’s overall domestic agenda and let citizens know that this is the dawn of a new era.

C.J. Polychroniou

Beyond Persuasion: Activism as an Invitation to Share Your Gifts with the World

Nina Turner's insight cuts to a crucial distinction in movement work: there's a difference between trying to win arguments and trying to build power. But I'd take it further—the deepest purpose of activism isn't even primarily about changing minds or mobilizing the...

Tim Hjersted

Report Details Trump's Rapid Escalation Toward Authoritarianism in First Year of Second Term

A year into Trump's second term, Amnesty International warns of escalating authoritarian practices in the US. Will we stand by as human rights are eroded, or will we take action to protect our democracy and the rights of all?

Julia Conley

Coalition Urges Congress to Block All Funding for ICE 'Surveillance Panopticon'

Coalition urges Congress to defund ICE's mass surveillance programs, citing privacy concerns and lack of accountability.

Brad Reed

The Imperialist Attack on Venezuela, the Crisis of Chavismo, and the Prospect of a Continental Anti-imperialist Struggle

The January 3 attack on Venezuela culminated in the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. The LTS in Venezuela, together with the CRP-CI internationally, calls for active mobilization to defeat Donald Trump’s imperialist military onslaught and...

Milton D'León

The US-Israel Hybrid War Against Iran

Both the American and Israeli deep states are addicted to hybrid warfare. Acting together, the CIA, Mossad, allied military contractors and security agencies have fomented chaos in Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen.

Jeffrey D. Sachs

‘Tariff for Oligarchs’: Top Economist Urges Europe to Fight Trump by Punishing US Billionaires

"Europe should respond to Trump’s blackmail with targeted measures aimed not at American consumers, but at American billionaires," wrote Gabriel Zucman.

Jake Johnson

Iran: Against Repression and Imperialist Threats — For an Independent Path of the Working Class!

While U.S. imperialism escalates sanctions, military threats, and interventionist pressure, the Islamic Republic is brutally repressing popular resistance to preserve clerical rule. Only the independent self-organization and mobilization of the Iranian working class, youth...

Left Voice

At the Root of All Our Problems Stands One Travesty: Politicians’ Surrender to the Super-rich

There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to.

George Monbiot

ICE Is Not a Normal Police Force. It's a Domestic Terrorist Organization Designed to Freak Us Out

We need a new model to fight ICE — including having local prosecutors indict its agents for murder, assault, and false arrests based on evidence.

Steven Donziger

We Are In a Crisis. Here's How to Build Communities That Can Respond

We need to build independent economic bases where we live.

Patrick Mazza

Coordinated State-Level 'Tax the Rich' Campaigns Kick Off Nationwide

Labor organizations and advocates unite to launch a campaign for taxing the ultrawealthy to fund public goods and combat GOP budget cuts.

Brad Reed

The Flotillas to Gaza Are the World’s Conscience

The numerous attempts by activists in flotillas, to break the siege on Gaza, are a potent reminder that hope comes through acts of resistance and that we must never accept the status quo.

Chris Hedges

Authoritarians Gain Power From Lists; Here's How to Fight Back

Schindler built a list to save lives. Natanson built one to save the truth. The FBI just seized it. Whose list are you on?

John Marks

Defeating Dictatorship and Resisting Imperial Interference: Dual Challenges of Iran’s Protest Movement

Confronting the brutality of the ruling dictatorship and the designs of U.S. and Israeli imperialism are the dual tasks of the uprising, according to Tudeh.

C.J. Atkins

Dispatches From the Uprising in Iran

This article presents 3 statements from Iranian workers’ organisations. As one group writes, "Long live the workers’ strikes! No to Zionism, no to monarchy, no to imperialism. Yes to class organisation, yes to the working-class revolution."

Leftcom

Putting a Stop to Trump's Gestapo Begins With You

Let’s be clear. The problem is not the protesters. It’s the armed thugs who are shooting and murdering them.

Robert Reich

We Are Not Powerless to Stop ICE—But We Must Act Now

We taxpayers fund ICE, the Border Patrol, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s salary (and her two jets). Without congressional action by the end of January, funding for ICE will lapse.

Sarah Van Gelder

Why Voting Alone Doesn’t Build Democracy — and What Actually Does

Elections matter, but history shows they are not enough. Real democracy is built through organized civic power between elections.

Sharon Kyle

Six Points to Navigate the Turmoil in Iran

While the current protests are largely driven by a record-high Rial to USD exchange and a 60 percent food inflation rate, the transition from labor strikes in South Pars to coordinated urban violence points towards a deeper level of intervention.

Vijay Prashad

Where Will We Stand? What World Do We Want To Live In?

Now is a good time to choose what you believe. Are we here to tend the webs of connection, to care for one another and our beautiful earth, as the core of not only indigenous but every major religion would tell us? Or are we here to maximize our material gain and destroy all...

Starhawk

“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days

Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on January 23.

Amie Stager & Sarah Lazare

Only the Iranian People Should Determine Their Nation's Future

It’s virtually impossible to predict what lies ahead for Iran and its people. But if President Donald Trump decides to take military action against Iran’s current regime, nothing good will come out of it.

C.J. Polychroniou

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