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The Return of the Common(er)s
The Return of the Common(er)s
Now is the time to transcend the failing systems around us—not by fighting them, but by quietly building something better. This closing article explores how an alternative social and...
Michel Rauchs · 980 views
The Commons in Practice: Case Studies From Around the World
The Commons in Practice: Case Studies From Around the World
From alpine pastures and salmon fisheries to offshore wind farms and online encyclopedias, commons take many forms. This article explores a wide range of real-world commons that span...
Michel Rauchs · 452 views
What's Wrong With the American Left: Symbols Instead of Substance
What's Wrong With the American Left: Symbols Instead of Substance
Once class recedes and the professional class sets the agenda, politics changes character. It becomes a contest over symbols rather than substance, over the words we use and the images...
David Schultz · 761 views
Israel’s Suicidal Rupture With the U.S.
Israel’s Suicidal Rupture With the U.S.
Israel is turning on its last important ally in an act of suicidal hubris.
Chris Hedges · 2,941 views
The Joke Is on Us
The Joke Is on Us
The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism.
Chris Hedges · 6,666 views
Bookchin and the Legacy of Direct Democracy: A Contribution by Yavor Tarinski
Bookchin and the Legacy of Direct Democracy: A Contribution by Yavor Tarinski
[Murray Bookchin] was a true son of the Enlightenment in his respect for clear thought and moral responsibility and in his honest, uncompromising search for a realistic hope.
Yavor Tarinski · 59 views
FIFA Counts Goals, Mexicans Count the Disappeared
FIFA Counts Goals, Mexicans Count the Disappeared
From teachers to the mothers searching for the forcibly disappeared, Mexico will be holding numerous, massive protests against the 2026 Men’s World Cup as it kicks off in Mexico City on...
Tamara Pearson · 283 views
Digital Ecosocialism: Breaking the Power of Big Tech
Digital Ecosocialism: Breaking the Power of Big Tech
We can no longer ignore the role of Big Tech in entrenching global inequality. To curtail the forces of digital capitalism, we need an ecosocialist Digital Tech Deal.
Joris Leverink · 355 views
What Is Wrong With the American Left: The Abandonment of Class
What Is Wrong With the American Left: The Abandonment of Class
I write this not as an enemy of the left but as someone who believes it has lost the thread of its own best tradition. That tradition is the democratic socialism of Eduard Bernstein, who...
David Schultz · 1,700 views
We Face a Choice: Tyranny or Revolution
We Face a Choice: Tyranny or Revolution
MEXICO CITY — There are two ways to confront global capitalism. There are mass movements, especially strikes, which disrupt commerce and government to force the ruling class to create...
Chris Hedges · 357 views
The Rise of the Global South
The Rise of the Global South
The war on Iran has not only ended in a humiliating defeat for the United States, but resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the Middle East and the Global South.
Chris Hedges · 955 views
Trump’s Iranian Nightmare
Trump’s Iranian Nightmare
Trump’s catastrophic miscalculation in Iran and refusal to accept the inevitability of defeat is pushing us towards a global depression and ensuring the suffering and immiseration of...
Chris Hedges · 337 views
How to Reach the Working Class in Red-State America
How to Reach the Working Class in Red-State America
What should be done in places where there is no Mamdani movement, no Working Families Party, no Democratic Socialists of America, or any effort whatsoever to rebuild the Democratic Party...
Les Leopold · 186 views
America’s Suicide Pact
America’s Suicide Pact
America’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire.
Chris Hedges · 2,496 views
50 Years of Co-Determination in Germany
50 Years of Co-Determination in Germany
Fifty years later, Germany’s system of participation is still in danger, as corporate bosses never accepted even this mild intrusion into what they perceive as their domain – the right...
Thomas Klikauer · 239 views
Trump the God
Trump the God
Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus, or anointed by Jesus, is typical of cult leaders.
Chris Hedges · 1,064 views
What the First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels Must Achieve
What the First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels Must Achieve
​Civil society will push states to act in line with their existing legal obligations to phase out all fossil fuels—including by advancing a Fossil Fuel Treaty that can govern a just and...
Nikki Reisch, Lili Fuhr · 661 views
Why the Anti-Data Center Movement Is Succeeding Where Others Have Struggled
Why the Anti-Data Center Movement Is Succeeding Where Others Have Struggled
By starting at the local and focusing on politics of material impact, the anti-data center movement has generated solidarity and success on a national scale unseen in recent movements...
Nicholas Rabb · 477 views
“I Felt Like a Monster”: Israeli Soldiers Break Silence on Gaza—and the System Behind It
“I Felt Like a Monster”: Israeli Soldiers Break Silence on Gaza—and the System Behind It
The official narrative isn’t just cracking—it’s being dismantled by the very people who carried it out.
Joshua Scheer · 3,585 views
We Need a Theory of Change That Recognizes the Democratic Establishment Has Been Doing It Wrong
We Need a Theory of Change That Recognizes the Democratic Establishment Has Been Doing It Wrong
​Effective change begins with believing in what seems impossible now: that workers should have significant power in our government and in our economy.
Les Leopold · 547 views
What Is the Commons—And Why Does It Matter Today?
What Is the Commons—And Why Does It Matter Today?
Tl;dr: For historical and cultural reasons, the Commons has remained largely overlooked or misunderstood. But today, it’s more important than ever to restore it as a vital third mode of...
Michel Rauchs · 1,877 views
We’re Surrounded by Crises. What’s Stopping Us From Acting?
We’re Surrounded by Crises. What’s Stopping Us From Acting?
Tl;dr: We are facing an overlapping set of crises that our dominant institutions seem unable to address. While many have withdrawn in disillusionment, their latent desire for change can...
Michel Rauchs · 2,135 views
The Problem at the Heart of Every Socialism Debate
The Problem at the Heart of Every Socialism Debate
"Socialism" has been used to describe everything from Soviet gulags to universal healthcare. The word was always vague. That's what made it so easy to weaponize, writes Peter Joseph.
Peter Joseph · 2,428 views
Your Algorithm Doesn’t Care If You Live or Die
Your Algorithm Doesn’t Care If You Live or Die
Just after midnight, the app lit up again.
Isadøra Chanel Quinn · 81 views
Urgent Message to Democrats: Stop Dragging Your Feet and End Trump's Iran War
Urgent Message to Democrats: Stop Dragging Your Feet and End Trump's Iran War
​Many congressional Democrats seem more interested in using Trump's war on Iran to score victories in the midterms than to use what power they do have to bring it to an end.
Stan Cox · 274 views
Piracy as Access
Piracy as Access
On a university campus in Jakarta, a group of students gather in a small classroom after hours. The windows are covered. The lights are dim. A projector hums to life.
Isadøra Chanel Quinn · 173 views
How Architecture Can Combat Climate Change
How Architecture Can Combat Climate Change
Climate change is no longer a distant threat—it is an urgent reality reshaping our planet, our cities, and our daily lives. While much attention focuses on transportation, energy...
Isabella Quinn · 118 views
Building Beyond No Kings: Why There Is Cause for Both Celebration and Concern
Building Beyond No Kings: Why There Is Cause for Both Celebration and Concern
While we need a massive “big tent” resistance against this horrendous man and moment, we also need a sustained and independent mass movement against America’s bipartisan wars, its...
Christopher D. Cook · 487 views
Trump Has No Soul
Trump Has No Soul
Trump is dangerous not simply because of his imbecility and unbridled narcissism, but because he lacks the core attributes of empathy and understanding that define the human soul.
Chris Hedges · 1,273 views
Serbian Newspapers in the Library of Congress
Serbian Newspapers in the Library of Congress
Springshare · 49 views
How the US Became an International Serial Killer
How the US Became an International Serial Killer
What was once covert, controversial, and constrained is now overt, normalized, and defended.
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies · 1,469 views
When Killing Children Is a Line Item In The Cost/Benefit Analysis of Wars for Oil
When Killing Children Is a Line Item In The Cost/Benefit Analysis of Wars for Oil
Human life cannot be reduced to barrels of oil, dollars of growth, or inflation points. To do so is to make mass murder manageable, calculable, acceptable.
George Cassidy Payne · 512 views
Labor’s Answer to A.I.? Give Us Our Time Back
Labor’s Answer to A.I.? Give Us Our Time Back
A four-day, 32-hour workweek with full pay and benefits should be at the center of this offensive agenda. The demand for shorter work time shows how the gains from technology can flow...
Vishal Reddy · 329 views
The World According to Gaza
The World According to Gaza
Gaza is only the start. The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is an instrument of control and barbarism is...
Chris Hedges · 5,139 views
Assemblies: A Path to Co-Governance and Democratic Renewal
Assemblies: A Path to Co-Governance and Democratic Renewal
A hybrid model of assemblies may be the key to bringing in vast numbers of people into the process of forging a new world and governing the one we have.
Ben Palmquist · 468 views
A 10-Point Eco-Socialist Education Agenda
A 10-Point Eco-Socialist Education Agenda
There's much more we can and should do. But this plan would get us moving in the right direction: expanding educational public goods that are democratic, ecological, and life-affirming.
TheLastFarm · 512 views
No, Bringing Back the Draft Would Not Stop US Warmongering
No, Bringing Back the Draft Would Not Stop US Warmongering
Mandatory conscription makes war easier, not harder.
Ron Jacobs · 784 views
Working People Are Leaving MAGA, but Where Will They Go?
Working People Are Leaving MAGA, but Where Will They Go?
Working class voters need a home, but the Democratic Party refuses to build them one.
Les Leopold · 282 views
The Weapons Makers Who Fund the Iran War are Also Its Cheerleaders on Your TV
The Weapons Makers Who Fund the Iran War are Also Its Cheerleaders on Your TV
After the American public soured on the Iraq War, many groups that pushed for the invasion tried to downplay their role in the debacle. Here we go again.
Nick Cleveland-Stout, Julian Cooper · 493 views
How to End the Trump-Netanyahu War in the Middle East
How to End the Trump-Netanyahu War in the Middle East
If not stopped soon, this war could easily turn into a global conflagration, effectively into World War III.
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Sybil Fares · 575 views
Chomsky's Assistant of 24 Years: "I Saw Every Message He Sent"
Chomsky's Assistant of 24 Years: "I Saw Every Message He Sent"
This statement will be seen by some merely as an act of loyalty. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have grappled, struggled deeply, over this situation, while seeking to remain...
Bev Stohl · 4,097 views
We Are the Extremists
We Are the Extremists
When Americans hear the word "extremist," a very specific image comes to mind. It's a brown-skinned man in a distant land, shouting in a foreign language, probably holding a weapon. It's...
Tim Hjersted · 119 views
The Price of Not Knowing: Iran, Corporate Interests, and America's Cycle of Violence
The Price of Not Knowing: Iran, Corporate Interests, and America's Cycle of Violence
​Why did the United States help topple a democratic government in Iran some 70 years ago—and how did that decision create the conditions we’re seeing today?
Sarah Van Gelder · 914 views
What Is Syndicalism and What Is It Good For?
What Is Syndicalism and What Is It Good For?
Rasmus Hästbacka of the syndicalist union SAC highlights leading ideas of syndicalism and their usefulness in contemporary class struggle.
Rasmus Hästbacka · 575 views
The Military-Industrial Complex 2.0: Big Tech's War of All Against All
The Military-Industrial Complex 2.0: Big Tech's War of All Against All
​Silicon Valley wants us to believe that the only way to “win” a future war is by handing the keys to our political world to a clique of self-defined superior beings headed up by the...
Janet Abou-Elias · 485 views
No, Iran Did Not Bomb Its Own School. Here Is What Actually Happened.
No, Iran Did Not Bomb Its Own School. Here Is What Actually Happened.
We've seen this pattern before.
Tim Hjersted · 2,876 views
Why Bridgerton Epitomizes What’s Wrong With Our Culture
Why Bridgerton Epitomizes What’s Wrong With Our Culture
Every act of attention is an act of allegiance.
Berenika Rozanska · 77 views
People Across Global South Condemn 'Imperialist' US-Israeli War on Iran
People Across Global South Condemn 'Imperialist' US-Israeli War on Iran
Global South unites against US-Israeli war on Iran, condemning imperialist aggression. Innocent lives lost, families displaced. When will the cycle of violence end? Join the fight for...
Brett Wilkins · 2,620 views
As US Attacks Iran, Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us Once More
As US Attacks Iran, Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us Once More
“There is a time when silence is a lie, when silence is complicity, and when silence betrays our troops, our country, and ourselves. We owe it to our troops, as well as to other...
Norman Solomon · 2,729 views
The Mythic Commons: A 25th Article on What We Build Together
The Mythic Commons: A 25th Article on What We Build Together
There's a piece in the Commoner's Manifesto—the whole collection, really—about how we've enclosed things that were never meant to be owned. Land. Water. Knowledge. The means of...
DeepSeek, Mister Badger the Anarchist Forest Critter · 88 views
Going to War, Again, for Israel
Going to War, Again, for Israel
Once again, America is going to war for Israel. Once again, many will die for the Zionist state, including American service members. Once again, we will stumble blindly into a military...
Chris Hedges · 2,423 views
What Is The Antidote to Capitalism? Economic Democracy
What Is The Antidote to Capitalism? Economic Democracy
With democratic control over our productive capacities we can stop climate breakdown in short order. We can overcome the capitalist law of value, and organize production around social...
Jason Hickel · 1,722 views
Honoring Michael Parenti, Who Kept the Torch of the US Left Lit and Sharply Afire
Honoring Michael Parenti, Who Kept the Torch of the US Left Lit and Sharply Afire
​Parenti stands out as uniquely courageous and unapologetic in directly confronting capitalism, US imperialism, and the manifold corruptions and inequities of society’s powerful.
Christopher D. Cook · 1,060 views
The Hoop Has More Than Two Points: A Compassionate Critique of Pat McCabe's Sacred Gender Essentialism
The Hoop Has More Than Two Points: A Compassionate Critique of Pat McCabe's Sacred Gender Essentialism
Pat McCabe asks the right question about masculine and feminine - then answers it by building a more beautiful cage. Sapolsky, Eisler, and Yoruba cosmology suggest the Hoop of Life has...
Stuart Parkinson · 124 views
Inside Zohran Mamdani's Police Reform Vision
Inside Zohran Mamdani's Police Reform Vision
What sets Mamdani apart from other progressive mayors who promised to be tough on police is a democratic socialist vision of a society that meets people’s needs.
Sonali Kolhatkar · 2,390 views
Universal Public Services: The Power of Decommodifying Survival
Universal Public Services: The Power of Decommodifying Survival
One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition.
Jason Hickel · 4,789 views
Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine
Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine
“No modern nation has ever equaled the crushing offensive power attained by the German war machine in 1939. No modern nation was broken and smashed as was Germany six years later.” - D...
Nicolas J.S. Davies · 755 views
Wes Jackson: a Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming
Wes Jackson: a Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming
​Jackson was ahead of his time in seeing not only problems in agriculture but what he called the problem of agriculture, the millennia of soil erosion and soil degradation caused by...
Robert Jensen · 2,254 views
A Grandmother's Legacy of Black Ecological Wisdom
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 · 1,475 views
Endless Growth Serves the Powerful, Not the Global Poor.
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 · 690 views
Why Degrowth Eco-Socialism?
Why Degrowth Eco-Socialism?
The case for a better future
TheLastFarm · 2,263 views
The Epstein Class: They Are the Elites They Pretend to Hate
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...
Sonali Kolhatkar · 9,784 views
Four Lessons From the Fight Against Trump and ICE in Minneapolis
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 · 1,257 views
Renewables Can't Fix The Infinite Growth Problem. We Need a Bigger Focus on Reducing Demand.
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 · 1,234 views
Six Eco-Socialist Ideas Zohran Can Pursue Right Now
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 · 1,351 views
Healing the Earth, One Community at a Time
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...
Ecosystem Restoration Communities Staff · 1,868 views
Rojava’s Experiment in Revolutionary Autonomy Is Facing Its Greatest Threat Yet
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...
Shane Burley · 2,081 views
Ending the Surge in Minnesota Isn’t Enough
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 · 692 views
A Revolutionary Intercommunal Mutualist Critique of Colin Jenkin's Black Panther Party “Blueprint” Frame
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. · 809 views
Sex Trafficking Prosecutions Won’t Stop the Next Epstein. Here’s What Will.
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 · 1,791 views
We Can Move Beyond the Capitalist Model and Save the Climate – Here Are the First Three Steps
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 · 1,715 views
“A Revolutionary Shift Is Underway”
“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...
Francesca Albanese · 2,158 views
Notes to a Friend on “Performative Activism” and Cultivating Liberation Culture
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...
Chris Crass · 1,834 views
An Injury to Immigrant Workers Is an Injury to All Workers
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...
Sarah Lazare · 704 views
White People Didn't Invent Slavery. The West Ended It.
White People Didn't Invent Slavery. The West Ended It.
I almost couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
Kaizen Asiedu · 102 views
Noam Chomsky's Wife Responds to Epstein Controversy
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 · 28,469 views
When Racism Becomes Spectacle: Distraction in an Age of Climate Crisis
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 · 967 views
The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think
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 · 2,473 views
Does Nonviolence Really "Protect the State"?
Does Nonviolence Really "Protect the State"?
Why the popular anarchist critique gets strategic resistance backwards—and what actually threatens power
Tim Hjersted · 217 views
Meet the Top 7 Oligarchs Controlling Your Online News
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 · 2,766 views
Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight
Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight
Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.
Jackie Summers · 1,575 views
Nonviolent Movements Not Only Win — They Win Faster
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 · 1,476 views
Field Notes for Cracking an Empire
Field Notes for Cracking an Empire
How to stay alive when the fight arrives at your door.
Jackie Summers · 1,408 views
In Defence of a Basic Land Income
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...
Manuel Casal Lodeiro · 1,297 views
10 Rules of Resistance for #ICEOut
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 · 2,939 views
Why Aren't the Largest U.S. Labor Unions Calling a General Strike Against ICE?
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 · 1,997 views
Will Democrats Ever Learn How to Beat Trump on the Immigration Issue?
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 · 836 views
Our Greatest Opponent Isn't Evil — It's the Belief That Nothing Can Change
Our Greatest Opponent Isn't Evil — It's the Belief That Nothing Can Change
The first battle is the battle of the spirit.
Tim Hjersted · 780 views
An Urgent Warning to America, From German Grannies Against the Far Right
An Urgent Warning to America, From German Grannies Against the Far Right
Dear American Citizens,
Grans-United · 1,964 views
The Senate Must Not Fund ICE
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 · 490 views
House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too
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 · 656 views
Fascism Will Be Stopped By Organized, Collective Refusal to Cooperate with Authoritarian Systems
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...
Rachel Hoopsick · 1,211 views
Hitler Didn't Win Because Germans Chose Nonviolence—He Won Because They Chose Compliance
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 · 876 views
After the Devastation of Trump’s First Year, These Popular Rebellions Offer Hope
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 · 791 views
Lancet Study Warns Plastics Could Cost Humanity 83 Million Years of Healthy Life
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...
Jessica Corbett · 1,008 views
1,000+ Organizations to Congress: ‘No Funds for ICE and Border Patrol’
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 · 523 views
US and EU Sanctions Have Killed 38 Million Since 1970
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 · 2,030 views
ICE Cannot Be Reformed—It Must Be Abolished
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 · 784 views
Strike, Strike, Strike
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 —...
Chris Hedges · 726 views
The Last Election
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...
Chris Hedges · 1,150 views
Imperial Boomerang
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...
Chris Hedges · 1,581 views
"This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed" and Other Objections to Strategic Nonviolence
"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...
Tim Hjersted · 496 views
Social Strikes: How Mass Strikes and People Power Uprisings Provide a Last Defense Against MAGA Tyranny
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 · 2,131 views
Why Nonviolent Resistance Doesn't Require Your Opponent to Have a Conscience
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...
Tim Hjersted · 4,013 views
'Groundbreaking': Michigan Sues Big Oil 'Cartel' for Conspiracy to Block Renewable Energy
'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 · 1,050 views
We Are All Minnesota
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 · 611 views
Every Nation in the World Should Reject Trump's Absurd and Dangerous 'Board of Peace'
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...
Jeffrey D. Sachs · 1,046 views
Masculine Strength Doesn't Need Redefining: It's True Purpose Was Always to Serve Life, Not Power
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...
Tim Hjersted · 953 views
Dear Trump voters: A Quick Point of Clarification about the Left
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...
Tim Hjersted · 687 views
Ending Republican Control Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership
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...
Norman Solomon · 592 views
The Gospel According to ICE: How Christians Betray The Faith They Claim to Follow
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...
Tim Hjersted · 1,276 views
The Socialist Case for AI: Defining Our Yes
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...
Tim Hjersted · 974 views
Beyond Persuasion: Activism as an Invitation to Share Your Gifts with the World
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...
Tim Hjersted · 741 views
The US-Israel Hybrid War Against Iran
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...
Jeffrey D. Sachs · 964 views
‘Tariff for Oligarchs’: Top Economist Urges Europe to Fight Trump by Punishing US Billionaires
‘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 · 979 views
ICE Is Not a Normal Police Force. It's a Domestic Terrorist Organization Designed to Freak Us Out
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 · 869 views
The Flotillas to Gaza Are the World’s Conscience
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 · 1,120 views
Authoritarians Gain Power From Lists; Here's How to Fight Back
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 · 1,279 views
Defeating Dictatorship and Resisting Imperial Interference: Dual Challenges of Iran’s Protest Movement
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 · 931 views
We Are Not Powerless to Stop ICE—But We Must Act Now
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...
Sarah Van Gelder · 596 views
Why Voting Alone Doesn’t Build Democracy — and What Actually Does
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 · 1,541 views
Six Points to Navigate the Turmoil in Iran
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...
Vijay Prashad · 1,113 views
Where Will We Stand? What World Do We Want To Live In?
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...
Starhawk · 824 views
“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days
“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...
Amie Stager & Sarah Lazare · 730 views
Organize! Yes, but How?
Organize! Yes, but How?
Most people agree we need to organize — but few talk concretely about how. This guide draws on a century of Swedish labor organizing to offer a practical framework for building real...
Rasmus Hästbacka · 967 views
Zohran Needs to Create Popular Assemblies
Zohran Needs to Create Popular Assemblies
If Zohran Mamdani is serious about delivering on his promises, he needs more than policies — he needs institutions that empower working people. Popular assemblies offer a way to build a...
Gabriel Hetland, Bhaskar Sunkara · 1,149 views
Mayor Mamdani Proves Progress Does Not Need to Be Slow
Mayor Mamdani Proves Progress Does Not Need to Be Slow
Pundits and politicians mocked universal childcare as a socialist fantasy—now many of them are silent as it becomes a practical reality.
Qasim Rashid · 779 views
Imperialism and Christian Nationalism Are Among History's Deadliest Forms of Collectivism
Imperialism and Christian Nationalism Are Among History's Deadliest Forms of Collectivism
We've been trained to recognize collectivism only when it wears a hammer and sickle, but this renders today's most powerful authoritarian structures invisible.
Tim Hjersted · 1,000 views
Beyond the Border Wars: A Working-Class Approach to Immigration Reform
Beyond the Border Wars: A Working-Class Approach to Immigration Reform
What would a genuinely humane immigration system actually look like? The answer is simpler than most politicians want to admit.
Tim Hjersted · 653 views
The Machinery of Terror
The Machinery of Terror
The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.
Chris Hedges · 5,843 views
From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel Use the Same Violent Playbook
From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel Use the Same Violent Playbook
Renee Good, like many Palestinians before her, died because authoritarian forces decided she did not deserve to live, and because the entire legal and political structure exists to...
Ahmad Ibsais · 1,031 views
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
Eric Blanc, Claire Sandberg, and Wes McEnany · 1,862 views
More and More Americans Want to Abolish ICE
More and More Americans Want to Abolish ICE
​Even before the Minneapolis shooting, polls showed public support for dropping Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Martin Burns · 929 views
The Pathology of Power: How America Learned to Love State Violence
The Pathology of Power: How America Learned to Love State Violence
The comments celebrating Renee Good's death reveal a psychological pattern familiar to anyone who has studied authoritarian movements: the sadistic pleasure derived from watching power...
Tim Hjersted · 2,127 views
'Reign of Terror': ICE Builds Appalling Record of Killings, Beatings, Kidnappings, and More
'Reign of Terror': ICE Builds Appalling Record of Killings, Beatings, Kidnappings, and More
"We just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood, in the street," said US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "This is an agency that must be reined in."
Jake Johnson · 1,034 views
Funded by Our Own Tax Dollars, American Fascism Is Here
Funded by Our Own Tax Dollars, American Fascism Is Here
In the face of fascistic terror, there are always people who crumble and people who refuse. Renee refused. She refused to look away. She refused to let the vulnerable face terror alone...
Emese Ilyés · 941 views
The Grand Illusion of Dying Empires
The Grand Illusion of Dying Empires
All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past glory. War will teach an unruly world to obey. But those who bow down before...
Chris Hedges · 4,483 views
The Real Terrorists Are ICE! Justice for Renee Nicole Good
The Real Terrorists Are ICE! Justice for Renee Nicole Good
ICE agents killed legal observer Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. The Trump administration is responsible. As protesters gather across the country to denounce Good's death, it is clear...
Tristan Taylor · 777 views
The Renewable Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable
The Renewable Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable
​By every measure, shifting from fossil fuels to electrification, renewables, and energy efficiency and conservation is far more beneficial to most people than following the same...
David Suzuki · 4,525 views
After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group
After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group
“They’ve been pretending that this made-up thing was real for a year. But now that they’d have to actually demonstrate its existence in court, they’re going to cram it down the memory hole.”
Stephen Prager · 835 views
'Terrorists in Imperial Uniform': US Forces Kill 32 Cubans During Venezuela Invasion
'Terrorists in Imperial Uniform': US Forces Kill 32 Cubans During Venezuela Invasion
What Trump administration officials called a "law enforcement operation" should, in fact, "be called a massacre," said one critic.
Brett Wilkins · 1,003 views
America the Rogue State
America the Rogue State
The evisceration of the rule of law at home and abroad solidifies America as a rogue state.
Chris Hedges · 6,203 views
My Briefing to the UN Security Council Regarding US Aggression Against Venezuela
My Briefing to the UN Security Council Regarding US Aggression Against Venezuela
The issue before the Council is whether any Member State—by force, coercion, or economic strangulation—has the right to determine Venezuela’s political future or to exercise control over...
Jeffrey D. Sachs · 1,059 views
US Attack on Venezuela Highlights Our Oil Addiction
US Attack on Venezuela Highlights Our Oil Addiction
The first step in recovering from addiction is to tell the truth—admit the addiction, acknowledge its consequences. Yet this is something we still seem unwilling to do with our addiction...
Rick Steiner · 2,215 views
The Time for an Anti-Imperialist Labor Movement Is Now
The Time for an Anti-Imperialist Labor Movement Is Now
Labor can’t claim to be on the side of workers while remaining neutral on the question of imperialism.
James Dennis Hoff · 613 views
Building “Mass Governance” in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City
Building “Mass Governance” in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City
Zohran Mamdani is now mayor of New York City, and the Left’s old ways of relating to elected officials won’t cut it. We need a “mass governance” approach.
Sumathy Kumar and Gianpaolo Baiocchi · 801 views
A New Year of Empire
A New Year of Empire
With its violent military intervention into Venezuela – a country I used to live in – the U.S. has begun this year with entitled and undisguised imperialism.
Tamara Pearson · 1,044 views
After Venezuela Assault, Trump and Rubio Warn Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia Could Be Next
After Venezuela Assault, Trump and Rubio Warn Cuba, Mexico, and Colombia Could Be Next
"The 'Trump corollary' to the Monroe Doctrine—applied in recent hours with violent force over the skies of Caracas—is the single greatest threat to peace and prosperity that the Americas...
Jake Johnson · 951 views
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan have written a weekly column for nearly two decades. This is their final dispatch, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities in people-centered...
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan · 999 views
WWNS? (What Would Noam Say?): I Lean Into Noam Chomsky's Words of Wisdom as the Storm Rages
WWNS? (What Would Noam Say?): I Lean Into Noam Chomsky's Words of Wisdom as the Storm Rages
May his 97th birthday bring him peace.
Bev Stohl · 659 views
Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025
Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025
In Texas, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and beyond, grassroots resistance to ICE is growing.
Sonali Kolhatkar · 873 views
If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive the American Police State?
If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive the American Police State?
If Jesus were born in modern America, under a government obsessed with surveillance, crackdowns on undocumented immigrants, religious nationalism, and absolute obedience to a...
John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead · 1,138 views
The Story of Christmas Is About the Poor Overcoming the Powerful
The Story of Christmas Is About the Poor Overcoming the Powerful
In Jesus’ own words, Christianity is a faith where the first shall be last and the last shall be first. It is meant not for the rich, the satisfied, and the powerful. Rather it is first...
James Zogby · 1,475 views
Chomsky, Epstein, and Us: Far More Is at Stake Than One Man's Legacy
Chomsky, Epstein, and Us: Far More Is at Stake Than One Man's Legacy
A comprehensive look at the evidence tell us criticism of Chomsky is absolutely warranted. This piece attempts to model what a fair and proportionate accountability process looks like.
Tim Hjersted · 13,144 views
Tools for Growing the Commons
Tools for Growing the Commons
The true strength lies in the careful combination of these tools into multi-layered, living systems—creating the conditions not just for protection, but for long-term flourishing.
Michel Rauchs · 6,068 views
A Letter to Liberals: On Lesser Evils and the Courage to Demand Better
A Letter to Liberals: On Lesser Evils and the Courage to Demand Better
We hear it constantly: "You're too harsh on Democrats. You're helping Republicans by criticizing our side. Now is not the time—we need unity against the rising threat of fascism."
Tim Hjersted · 629 views
A Letter to Conservatives: On Power, Principles, and the Path Forward
A Letter to Conservatives: On Power, Principles, and the Path Forward
Our ask isn't that you become a progressive. It's for both loyal Democrats and loyal Republicans to stop defending their party uncritically and to challenge the rot in both parties...
Tim Hjersted · 572 views
Mark Kelly Is Right: Military Members Have the Power to Resist What They Know Is Wrong
Mark Kelly Is Right: Military Members Have the Power to Resist What They Know Is Wrong
​When military members have claimed such power and refused blind military obedience—during the Vietnam War and the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq—it has had a significant impact...
Nan Levinson · 635 views
Trump Declares Fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction as His 'Lawless Killing Spree' Escalates
Trump Declares Fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction as His 'Lawless Killing Spree' Escalates
One expert said the Trump White House is "replaying the Bush administration's greatest hits as farce."
Jake Johnson · 214 views
Winning in Places Where the Democratic Party Is Dead
Winning in Places Where the Democratic Party Is Dead
The door is wide open to try something new.
Les Leopold · 214 views
'A Monstrosity': Trump Blames Killing of Rob Reiner and Wife on Director's Anti-Trump Views
'A Monstrosity': Trump Blames Killing of Rob Reiner and Wife on Director's Anti-Trump Views
One critic called Trump's social media post following the murders "the most disturbing, deranged, and demented post you'll ever see from a US president."
Brett Wilkins · 242 views
A National Network of Activists Pursuing “People’s Budgets” Gains Prominence
A National Network of Activists Pursuing “People’s Budgets” Gains Prominence
Across the country campaigns that meld community budget goals with participatory democratic practices have gained ground. Seattle and Nashville offer two examples.
Celina Su · 389 views
You Could Be on Trump's Enemies List, but the Mainstream Media Won't Warn You
You Could Be on Trump's Enemies List, but the Mainstream Media Won't Warn You
​A new Department of Justice memo is another giant step towards authoritarianism; however, establishment media didn’t see it that way.
Jim Naureckas · 432 views
Autopsy Results: Why the Democrats Lost in 2024—And How to Start Winning Again
Autopsy Results: Why the Democrats Lost in 2024—And How to Start Winning Again
Without a full and honest accounting of the Harris campaign and the Democratic Party’s myriad failures, there can be little realistic hope of defeating Trumpist authoritarianism in the...
Christopher D. Cook · 2,999 views
The Lies Americans Tell Themselves to Justify State Violence Against Migrants
The Lies Americans Tell Themselves to Justify State Violence Against Migrants
I posted a photo of Border Patrol agents pinning a man to the ground in a headlock – and the internet made up every excuse in the book to defend the assault.
Scott Hechinger · 439 views
When Cheering for Murder Is Disguised as Patriotism
When Cheering for Murder Is Disguised as Patriotism
To revel in the image of human beings being blown apart is to confess a kind of moral numbness that civilizations acquire only in their final stages of decay.
Tim Hjersted · 863 views
Trump’s Empire of Hubris and Thuggery
Trump’s Empire of Hubris and Thuggery
The president's latest National Security Strategy memorandum treats the freedom to coerce others as the essence of US sovereignty. It is an ominous document that will—if allowed to...
Jeffrey D. Sachs · 893 views
You Know How to Whistle, Don't You?
You Know How to Whistle, Don't You?
Resistance to ICE and the Trump regime gets creative…drawing on protest traditions from around the world, and starting some new ones.
Jennifer Thomas · 615 views
Asking the Right Questions When Lawless US Officials Go on a Murder Spree
Asking the Right Questions When Lawless US Officials Go on a Murder Spree
Declaring unilaterally that a war exists (when it doesn't) and then bombing unarmed civilian boats in international waters is inherently illegal, regardless of whether anyone is killed...
Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith · 320 views
Those Cheering These Killings are Not Defending Civilization—They Are Dismantling It
Those Cheering These Killings are Not Defending Civilization—They Are Dismantling It
The moment we allow governments to kill without trial, we step out of the rule of law and into barbarism.
Tim Hjersted · 373 views
How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline
How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline
Saving the country from autocracy requires recognizing—and then overcoming—the chokehold that Democratic leaders have on the party.
Norman Solomon · 1,056 views
People Aren’t Being “Replaced” — They’re Being Distracted From Who Actually Robbed Them
People Aren’t Being “Replaced” — They’re Being Distracted From Who Actually Robbed Them
“Invasion” and “replacement” narratives function as cover stories for the corporate plunder of the working class, turning justified anger away from elites and toward scapegoats.
Tim Hjersted · 486 views
Bernie’s Advice to His Fellow Elected Socialists
Bernie’s Advice to His Fellow Elected Socialists
Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders spoke to a gathering of over a hundred democratic socialist elected officials. Here’s what he said.
Bernie Sanders · 425 views
What Is Libertarian Socialism?
What Is Libertarian Socialism?
Libertarian socialism is a political tradition that argues real freedom requires both personal liberty and democratic control over the economic institutions that shape our lives.
Tim Hjersted · 1,346 views
The Real Ideology Behind Reason Magazine's Anti-Socialist Crusade
The Real Ideology Behind Reason Magazine's Anti-Socialist Crusade
Reason Magazine presents itself as a courageous outsider “pushing back against socialism,” but its real and consistent function is far more familiar: it operates as an ideological shield...
Tim Hjersted · 412 views
What the ‘Men in Crisis’ Narrative Hides About Power, Capital, and Discontent
What the ‘Men in Crisis’ Narrative Hides About Power, Capital, and Discontent
Steve Rose's framing of Scott Galloway as a kind of enlightened guide to “the crisis of men” is a useful illustration of how contemporary media systems manage dissent.
Tim Hjersted · 1,972 views
A Society Built on Scapegoats Will Always Destroy Itself
A Society Built on Scapegoats Will Always Destroy Itself
If we’re serious about understanding what makes a society flourish - or disintegrate - history offers plenty of lessons. The idea that hatred, exclusion, and authoritarian nationalism...
Tim Hjersted · 430 views
Report Shows How Recycling Is Largely a 'Toxic Lie' Pushed by Plastics Industry
Report Shows How Recycling Is Largely a 'Toxic Lie' Pushed by Plastics Industry
"These corporations and their partners continue to sell the public a comforting lie to hide the hard truth: that we simply have to stop producing so much plastic," said one campaigner.
Brett Wilkins · 691 views
The Crisis Is Real, but the Story Is Wrong: What Scott Galloway Misses About Men, Power, and Society
The Crisis Is Real, but the Story Is Wrong: What Scott Galloway Misses About Men, Power, and Society
Galloway describes real symptoms facing young men, but his analysis leaves the political economy that produced those symptoms out of view. To understand the crisis, we have to step...
Tim Hjersted · 2,021 views
Public Grocery Stores Don't Lead to Monopolies — They’re a New Choice in a Rigged Market
Public Grocery Stores Don't Lead to Monopolies — They’re a New Choice in a Rigged Market
Critics say a public grocery program would limit consumer freedom, but unlike corporate monopolies, it expands it by adding competition, giving shoppers another choice and pushing...
Tim Hjersted · 1,196 views
Democrats in Congress Are Out of Touch With Constituents on Israeli Genocide
Democrats in Congress Are Out of Touch With Constituents on Israeli Genocide
The political issue of complicity with genocide will not go away. And that's a good thing.
Norman Solomon · 218 views
How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again
How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again
Errol Schweizer, a former national vice president of grocery at Whole Foods, argues in Jacobin that the private sector is responsible for ever-rising grocery prices and can’t be relied...
Errol Schweizer · 635 views
How DSA Is Building Municipal Socialism in the Nation’s Largest City
How DSA Is Building Municipal Socialism in the Nation’s Largest City
A look inside the strategy, structure, and mass organizing powering the Left’s most ambitious municipal project in America.
Grace Mausser · 1,025 views
The Case for a Planetary Identity in an Age of Collapse
The Case for a Planetary Identity in an Age of Collapse
A cosmic identity begins with the understanding that humanity is a single species — sharing not only a common biology and evolutionary history, but a shared capacity for consciousness...
Tim Hjersted · 375 views
How the Left-Right Divide is Weaponized By Elites to Maintain the Dominant Order
How the Left-Right Divide is Weaponized By Elites to Maintain the Dominant Order
To declare oneself “left” or “right” is to join a moral tribe, often in association with political parties, seeking community and order. The cost is critical independence and intelligence.
Peter Joseph · 617 views
Giving Thanks on an Endangered Earth
Giving Thanks on an Endangered Earth
​So many of us are now searching for a bridge to the world we need. I'm thankful that we're searching together and for the possibilities we may find.
Erika Spanger · 546 views
How Compassion Becomes a Wrench in the Machinery of Extremism
How Compassion Becomes a Wrench in the Machinery of Extremism
“So you’re saying we should just be nice to fascists.”
Tim Hjersted · 308 views
An Introduction to Integral: A Federated, Post-Monetary Cooperative Economy
An Introduction to Integral: A Federated, Post-Monetary Cooperative Economy
In this article, Peter Joseph presents Integral—a cooperative economy designed to replace both markets and top-down state control with an architecture of open design, time-based...
Peter Joseph · 3,895 views
Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30
Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30
"The advance of the extreme right, fascism and wars around the world exacerbates the climate crisis and the exploitation of nature and of peoples. The countries of the global North...
People's Summit Towards COP30 · 551 views
Eugene V. Debs, Defender of American Liberty
Eugene V. Debs, Defender of American Liberty
Released from jail on this day 130 years ago, the great socialist and labor leader delivered a speech we would do well to remember in these perilous times.
Jeffrey C. Isaac · 795 views
Films For Action Reached 3 Million People Last Month Thanks to Our Patron Supporters
Films For Action Reached 3 Million People Last Month Thanks to Our Patron Supporters
Friends, over the past month our posts on Facebook got over 10 million views and reached more than 3 million people — almost double the month before. That's all thanks to you.
Tim Hjersted · 305 views
The 86 House Democrats Who Condemned Socialism Weren’t Defending Democracy—They Were Defending Concentrated Private Power
The 86 House Democrats Who Condemned Socialism Weren’t Defending Democracy—They Were Defending Concentrated Private Power
When 86 House Democrats—including party leader Hakeem Jeffries—join Republicans to “condemn the horrors of socialism,” you don’t need a political science degree to understand what’s...
Tim Hjersted · 2,122 views
The Central Function of Race in America Has Been to Prevent Class Solidarity
The Central Function of Race in America Has Been to Prevent Class Solidarity
From the very beginning of the American project, race has been the primary tool for dividing the population against itself.
Tim Hjersted · 535 views
Schumer Democrats Can’t Stop Trump. Mamdani Democrats Can.
Schumer Democrats Can’t Stop Trump. Mamdani Democrats Can.
A week after Zohran Mamdani’s inspiring win, the Democratic Party’s centrist leadership proved its worthlessness in the Senate. The moderate party establishment is no match for Trumpism...
Ben Burgis · 471 views
What Is the Opposite of Fascism?
What Is the Opposite of Fascism?
Fascism is not merely a set of authoritarian habits or unpleasant attitudes. It is a political arrangement designed to centralize power: the fusion of state authority with corporate...
Tim Hjersted · 1,196 views
Why Progressives Need to Be More Critical of Corporate Democrats, Not Less
Why Progressives Need to Be More Critical of Corporate Democrats, Not Less
A former supporter recently unfollowed Films For Action's Facebook page, which I admin, saying:
Tim Hjersted · 709 views
Self-Determination, Not Goodwill, Will Decide the Global South’s Future
Self-Determination, Not Goodwill, Will Decide the Global South’s Future
The Global South did not cause this crisis, but we are determined to define its solution. In Punjab, that solution begins with clean streets, safe water, affordable energy, and credible...
Maryam Nawaz Sharif · 689 views
How to Defeat Concentrated Private Power: A Practical Guide to Chris Hedges’ Prescription for Change
How to Defeat Concentrated Private Power: A Practical Guide to Chris Hedges’ Prescription for Change
To defeat the rise of authoritarianism, Chris Hedges has called for mass movements, strikes and counter‑institutions to challenge corporate rule and revive democracy. This guide breaks...
Tim Hjersted · 4,062 views
Films For Action Wants Your Feedback: A Note for Friends and Critics
Films For Action Wants Your Feedback: A Note for Friends and Critics
Dear friends and critics, I care a lot about what our supporters think. I read most of the comments on our Facebook posts and I try to take in as many as I can.
Tim Hjersted · 586 views
Trump’s Greatest Ally Is the Democratic Party
Trump’s Greatest Ally Is the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be...
Chris Hedges · 1,102 views
America Is a Banana Republic
America Is a Banana Republic
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.
Chris Hedges · 974 views
Mamdani's Win Is Proof That an Organized Public Can Defeat Organized Money
Mamdani's Win Is Proof That an Organized Public Can Defeat Organized Money
Zohran Mamdani’s election in New York City is not simply a local upset. It is a breach in the ideological dam that has kept American politics safely contained for generations.
Tim Hjersted · 454 views
Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals Are Surprisingly Affordable
Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals Are Surprisingly Affordable
It would be nice if all revolutions came this cheap.
Richard Eskow · 564 views
Dissent Is Patriotic: Daniel Ellsberg's Legacy Demands Action
Dissent Is Patriotic: Daniel Ellsberg's Legacy Demands Action
Few will find themselves in Ellsberg’s position, but all of us bear responsibility for doing whatever is in our power to confront injustice in all of its forms, at home and abroad.
Eric Ross · 123 views
Can Mamdani and Friends Revive Socialism in America? Our Future Depends on It
Can Mamdani and Friends Revive Socialism in America? Our Future Depends on It
​To build a society that actually serves its people, it is necessary to recover a long-marginalized tradition that understands democracy not simply as the holding of elections but as a...
Eric Ross · 111 views
Beyond Privilege, Guilt and White Culture: The Politics We Actually Need
Beyond Privilege, Guilt and White Culture: The Politics We Actually Need
I keep hearing a similar story. Someone steps into “privilege” work hoping to grow, and instead walks away feeling shamed and under attack, as if their identity is the problem. One...
Tim Hjersted · 496 views
FDR Warned Us about Organized Money. The Threat He Saw Now Dominates Both Political Parties in the US.
FDR Warned Us about Organized Money. The Threat He Saw Now Dominates Both Political Parties in the US.
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.They had begun to...
Films For Action · 934 views
Trump’s Orwellian Militarization of American Cities
Trump’s Orwellian Militarization of American Cities
By the end of "1984," Winston is brutalized into accepting the lies. This need not be our fate. Trump's attempt to send troops into American cities can and must be resisted.
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan · 259 views
Don't Let a Fascist Like Trump Act as Judge, Jury, and Executioner
Don't Let a Fascist Like Trump Act as Judge, Jury, and Executioner
Would it be okay for the Mexican military to blow up a US fishing boat because they believed it was smuggling deadly guns into Mexico, even if they offered no evidence? Would that be...
Sanho Tree · 472 views
The No Kings Day Project Must Evolve From Protest to Civil Disobedience
The No Kings Day Project Must Evolve From Protest to Civil Disobedience
​I am not going to discount the value of having 7 million people show up to protest the fascist, genocidal Trump regime, but we need more from the movement.
Phil Wilson · 145 views
Republicans Are Trying to Make Fascism Edgy and Hip
Republicans Are Trying to Make Fascism Edgy and Hip
By declaring all opposition to themselves anti-fascism, MAGA isn’t leaving much mystery about their leanings.
Kyle Schmidlin · 373 views
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Richard Sclove · 492 views
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Tim Hjersted · 1,261 views
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Les Leopold · 159 views
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Leo Casey · 726 views
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Joseph Bouchard · 946 views
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Nicholas Rabb · 867 views
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Les Leopold · 343 views
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Chris Hedges · 597 views
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Ella Fassler · 459 views
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Brett Wilkins · 290 views
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Daniel Moritz-Rabson · 441 views
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Chris Hedges · 992 views
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Tim Hjersted · 7,634 views
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Tim Hjersted · 405 views
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Tim Hjersted · 676 views
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Films For Action · 1,250 views
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Tim Hjersted · 630 views
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George Cassidy Payne · 478 views
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Michael Shuman · 1,190 views
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Tim Hjersted · 3,906 views
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Chris Hedges · 1,197 views
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Chris Hedges · 1,997 views
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Chris Hedges · 2,959 views
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Chris Hedges · 2,408 views
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Chris Hedges · 1,052 views
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Tim Hjersted · 1,239 views
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Tim Hjersted · 556 views
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In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.
Chris Hedges · 2,953 views
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Tim Hjersted · 632 views
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Barbara Peterson · 482 views
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Tim Hjersted · 488 views
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Tim Hjersted · 1,729 views
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Elizabeth West · 809 views
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Shodo Spring · 607 views
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Tim Hjersted · 817 views
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Tim Hjersted · 933 views
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Tim Hjersted · 701 views
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Tim Hjersted · 1,546 views
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Chris Hedges · 7,404 views
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Tim Hjersted · 822 views
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Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan · 467 views
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Tim Hjersted · 1,288 views
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Local Futures · 871 views
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Chris Hedges · 778 views
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Tim Hjersted · 2,795 views
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Tim Hjersted · 801 views
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Films For Action · 1,230 views
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Tim Hjersted · 1,328 views
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Hanna Homestead · 453 views
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Jane Prescott · 1,406 views
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Tim Hjersted · 1,683 views
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Alan Minsky · 759 views
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Films For Action · 596 views
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Films For Action · 1,423 views
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Films For Action · 918 views
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Les Leopold · 735 views
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Tim Hjersted · 3,286 views
How We Win: A Movement Strategy to Unite #DemExit and #DemEnter
How We Win: A Movement Strategy to Unite #DemExit and #DemEnter
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Tim Hjersted · 1,983 views
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Tim Hjersted · 654 views
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There is no question that the Democratic Party, once the party of the working class, is now the party of the professional managerial class.
Les Leopold · 755 views
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For years, conservatives during Biden’s presidency asked: “Who’s really running the country?”The irony is that the same forces conservatives claimed were pulling Biden’s...
Films For Action · 1,298 views
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Films For Action · 5,116 views
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Alan Minsky · 843 views
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“Leave the oil in the ground? Give up more than a billion dollars a year? Put nature above the economy? What madness is this?”
Pablo Solón · 754 views
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Daniel Santini · 642 views
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Tim Hjersted · 3,427 views
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Ashish Kothari · 433 views
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We are living in a time of profound transition, a moment when humanity must choose its path forward. The old systems—of empire, domination, and exploitation—are showing signs of...
Tim Hjersted · 1,712 views
It's Time to Abolish Private Health Insurance
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Tim Hjersted · 1,224 views
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Films For Action · 3,305 views
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Tim Hjersted · 1,214 views
Revenge of the Deplorables?
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Think about it this way, maybe it's the Democratic Party which has become deplorable to the working class.
Les Leopold · 969 views
UN Report Warns of Escalating Genocide in Gaza
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Chris Hedges · 792 views
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Starhawk · 819 views
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Starhawk · 1,163 views
The Real Agenda Behind Mass Deportations
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Tim Hjersted · 1,889 views
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