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How to Reach the Working Class in Red-State America
How to Reach the Working Class in Red-State America
Les Leopold · 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...
America’s Suicide Pact
America’s Suicide Pact
Chris Hedges · America’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire.
50 Years of Co-Determination in Germany
50 Years of Co-Determination in Germany
Thomas Klikauer · 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...
Trump the God
Trump the God
Chris Hedges · Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus, or anointed by Jesus, is typical of cult leaders.
What the First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels Must Achieve
What the First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels Must Achieve
Nikki Reisch, Lili Fuhr · ​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...
Why the Anti-Data Center Movement Is Succeeding Where Others Have Struggled
Why the Anti-Data Center Movement Is Succeeding Where Others Have Struggled
Nicholas Rabb · 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...
“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
Joshua Scheer · The official narrative isn’t just cracking—it’s being dismantled by the very people who carried it out.
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
Les Leopold · ​Effective change begins with believing in what seems impossible now: that workers should have significant power in our government and in our economy.
What Is the Commons—And Why Does It Matter Today?
What Is the Commons—And Why Does It Matter Today?
Michel Rauchs · 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...
We’re Surrounded by Crises. What’s Stopping Us From Acting?
We’re Surrounded by Crises. What’s Stopping Us From Acting?
Michel Rauchs · 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...
The Problem at the Heart of Every Socialism Debate
The Problem at the Heart of Every Socialism Debate
Peter Joseph · "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.
Your Algorithm Doesn’t Care If You Live or Die
Your Algorithm Doesn’t Care If You Live or Die
Isadøra Chanel Quinn · Just after midnight, the app lit up again.
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
Stan Cox · ​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.
Piracy as Access
Piracy as Access
Isadøra Chanel Quinn · 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.
How Architecture Can Combat Climate Change
How Architecture Can Combat Climate Change
Isabella Quinn · 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...
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
Christopher D. Cook · 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...
Trump Has No Soul
Trump Has No Soul
Chris Hedges · 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.
Serbian Newspapers in the Library of Congress
Serbian Newspapers in the Library of Congress
Springshare ·
How the US Became an International Serial Killer
How the US Became an International Serial Killer
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies · What was once covert, controversial, and constrained is now overt, normalized, and defended.
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
George Cassidy Payne · 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.
Labor’s Answer to A.I.? Give Us Our Time Back
Labor’s Answer to A.I.? Give Us Our Time Back
Vishal Reddy · 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...
The World According to Gaza
The World According to Gaza
Chris Hedges · 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...
Assemblies: A Path to Co-Governance and Democratic Renewal
Assemblies: A Path to Co-Governance and Democratic Renewal
Ben Palmquist · 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.
A 10-Point Eco-Socialist Education Agenda
A 10-Point Eco-Socialist Education Agenda
TheLastFarm · 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.
No, Bringing Back the Draft Would Not Stop US Warmongering
No, Bringing Back the Draft Would Not Stop US Warmongering
Ron Jacobs · Mandatory conscription makes war easier, not harder.
Working People Are Leaving MAGA, but Where Will They Go?
Working People Are Leaving MAGA, but Where Will They Go?
Les Leopold · Working class voters need a home, but the Democratic Party refuses to build them one.
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
Nick Cleveland-Stout, Julian Cooper · 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.
How to End the Trump-Netanyahu War in the Middle East
How to End the Trump-Netanyahu War in the Middle East
Jeffrey D. Sachs, Sybil Fares · If not stopped soon, this war could easily turn into a global conflagration, effectively into World War III.
I'm No Longer Waiting for the Storm to Pass
I'm No Longer Waiting for the Storm to Pass
Bev Stohl · 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...
We Are the Extremists
We Are the Extremists
Tim Hjersted · 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...
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
Sarah Van Gelder · ​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?
What Is Syndicalism and What Is It Good For?
What Is Syndicalism and What Is It Good For?
Rasmus Hästbacka · Rasmus Hästbacka of the syndicalist union SAC highlights leading ideas of syndicalism and their usefulness in contemporary class struggle.
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
Janet Abou-Elias · ​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...
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.
Tim Hjersted · We've seen this pattern before.
Why Bridgerton Epitomizes What’s Wrong With Our Culture
Why Bridgerton Epitomizes What’s Wrong With Our Culture
Berenika Rozanska · Every act of attention is an act of allegiance.
People Across Global South Condemn 'Imperialist' US-Israeli War on Iran
People Across Global South Condemn 'Imperialist' US-Israeli War on Iran
Brett Wilkins · 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...
As US Attacks Iran, Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us Once More
As US Attacks Iran, Daniel Ellsberg Speaks to Us Once More
Norman Solomon · “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...
The Mythic Commons: A 25th Article on What We Build Together
The Mythic Commons: A 25th Article on What We Build Together
DeepSeek, Mister Badger the Anarchist Forest Critter · 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...
Going to War, Again, for Israel
Going to War, Again, for Israel
Chris Hedges · 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...
What Is The Antidote to Capitalism? Economic Democracy
What Is The Antidote to Capitalism? Economic Democracy
Jason Hickel · 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...
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
Christopher D. Cook · ​Parenti stands out as uniquely courageous and unapologetic in directly confronting capitalism, US imperialism, and the manifold corruptions and inequities of society’s powerful.
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
Stuart Parkinson · 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...
Inside Zohran Mamdani's Police Reform Vision
Inside Zohran Mamdani's Police Reform Vision
Sonali Kolhatkar · 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.
Universal Public Services: The Power of Decommodifying Survival
Universal Public Services: The Power of Decommodifying Survival
Jason Hickel · 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.
Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine
Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine
Nicolas J.S. Davies · “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...
Wes Jackson: a Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming
Wes Jackson: a Misfit Trying to Change the Future of Farming
Robert Jensen · ​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...
A Grandmother's Legacy of Black Ecological Wisdom
A Grandmother's Legacy of Black Ecological Wisdom
Nikki Woods · Nikki Woods explores the deep ecological connections forged through surviving enslavement and its aftermath, as well as throughout African history.
Endless Growth Serves the Powerful, Not the Global Poor.
Endless Growth Serves the Powerful, Not the Global Poor.
Tim Hjersted · A common objection to calls for demand reduction and degrowth comes from defenders of the status quo:
Why Degrowth Eco-Socialism?
Why Degrowth Eco-Socialism?
TheLastFarm · The case for a better future
The Epstein Class: They Are the Elites They Pretend to Hate
The Epstein Class: They Are the Elites They Pretend to Hate
Sonali Kolhatkar · 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...
Four Lessons From the Fight Against Trump and ICE in Minneapolis
Four Lessons From the Fight Against Trump and ICE in Minneapolis
Sou Mi · As the fight against the administration's anti-immigrant offensive continues, here are four lessons we can draw from the experience.
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.
TheLastFarm · Here's how to reduce electricity demand while improving quality of life.
Six Eco-Socialist Ideas Zohran Can Pursue Right Now
Six Eco-Socialist Ideas Zohran Can Pursue Right Now
TheLastFarm · These policies are fully within the new mayor's power and would visibly improve daily life in New York without waiting on Albany.
Healing the Earth, One Community at a Time
Healing the Earth, One Community at a Time
Ecosystem Restoration Communities Staff · 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...
Rojava’s Experiment in Revolutionary Autonomy Is Facing Its Greatest Threat Yet
Rojava’s Experiment in Revolutionary Autonomy Is Facing Its Greatest Threat Yet
Shane Burley · “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...
Ending the Surge in Minnesota Isn’t Enough
Ending the Surge in Minnesota Isn’t Enough
Ben Burgis · Justice will require a wave of impeachments, criminal charges, and restitution to the people of the Twin Cities.
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
United Panther Party – U.S. · 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
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.
Chanelle Gallant, Shannon Perez-Darby · We can fight child sexual abuse using a block-and-build strategy rooted in economic, racial, and gender justice.
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
Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis · 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.
“A Revolutionary Shift Is Underway”
“A Revolutionary Shift Is Underway”
Francesca Albanese · 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...
Notes to a Friend on “Performative Activism” and Cultivating Liberation Culture
Notes to a Friend on “Performative Activism” and Cultivating Liberation Culture
Chris Crass · 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...
An Injury to Immigrant Workers Is an Injury to All Workers
An Injury to Immigrant Workers Is an Injury to All Workers
Sarah Lazare · ​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...
White People Didn't Invent Slavery. The West Ended It.
White People Didn't Invent Slavery. The West Ended It.
Kaizen Asiedu · I almost couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
Noam Chomsky's Wife Responds to Epstein Controversy
Noam Chomsky's Wife Responds to Epstein Controversy
Valéria Chomsky · "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.
When Racism Becomes Spectacle: Distraction in an Age of Climate Crisis
When Racism Becomes Spectacle: Distraction in an Age of Climate Crisis
Peter Scaramuzzo · ​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.
The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think
The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think
Norman Solomon · If you want a more progressive Democratic Party, the California governor ain't it.
Does Nonviolence Really "Protect the State"?
Does Nonviolence Really "Protect the State"?
Tim Hjersted · Why the popular anarchist critique gets strategic resistance backwards—and what actually threatens power
Meet the Top 7 Oligarchs Controlling Your Online News
Meet the Top 7 Oligarchs Controlling Your Online News
Caitlin Scialla · ​The internet has not democratized news in any meaningful way; instead, the media monopoly has simply migrated to digital spaces.
Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight
Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight
Jackie Summers · Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.
Nonviolent Movements Not Only Win — They Win Faster
Nonviolent Movements Not Only Win — They Win Faster
Stockholm University Communications Office · Nonviolent resistance movements are not only more likely to succeed than their violent counterparts — they also tend to achieve success more quickly.
Field Notes for Cracking an Empire
Field Notes for Cracking an Empire
Jackie Summers · How to stay alive when the fight arrives at your door.
In Defence of a Basic Land Income
In Defence of a Basic Land Income
Manuel Casal Lodeiro · 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...
10 Rules of Resistance for #ICEOut
10 Rules of Resistance for #ICEOut
Rivera Sun · Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.
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?
Mike Pappas, Daniel Nath · As Minneapolis leads a heroic fightback against ICE, our national unions must follow their example by organizing toward a general strike.
Will Democrats Ever Learn How to Beat Trump on the Immigration Issue?
Will Democrats Ever Learn How to Beat Trump on the Immigration Issue?
Les Leopold · Not only is the president's policy cruel and inhumane, it’s also not what the American people, including the white working-class, want.
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
Tim Hjersted · The first battle is the battle of the spirit.
An Urgent Warning to America, From German Grannies Against the Far Right
An Urgent Warning to America, From German Grannies Against the Far Right
Grans-United · Dear American Citizens,
The Senate Must Not Fund ICE
The Senate Must Not Fund ICE
Sonali Kolhatkar · The money fueling ICE’s abuses comes directly out of the pockets of working Americans who are already struggling.
House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too
House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too
Sharon Zhang · “The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.
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
Rachel Hoopsick · 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...
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
Tim Hjersted · The problem wasn't the method of resistance. It was the near-total absence of sustained, mass-scale resistance of any kind.
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
Sarah van Gelder · Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
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
Jessica Corbett · 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...
1,000+ Organizations to Congress: ‘No Funds for ICE and Border Patrol’
1,000+ Organizations to Congress: ‘No Funds for ICE and Border Patrol’
Jake Johnson · "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?"
US and EU Sanctions Have Killed 38 Million Since 1970
US and EU Sanctions Have Killed 38 Million Since 1970
Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan, Omer Tayyab · Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.
ICE Cannot Be Reformed—It Must Be Abolished
ICE Cannot Be Reformed—It Must Be Abolished
Qasim Rashid · Here are 5 calls to action you can take now to help protect our neighbors.
Strike, Strike, Strike
Strike, Strike, Strike
Chris Hedges · 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 —...
The Last Election
The Last Election
Chris Hedges · 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...
Imperial Boomerang
Imperial Boomerang
Chris Hedges · 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...
"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
Tim Hjersted · 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...
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
Jeremy Brecher, Alex Caputo-Pearl & Jackson Potter · The history of social strikes demonstrate that, no matter what tyrants may do, ultimately the people have the means to defeat them.
Why Nonviolent Resistance Doesn't Require Your Opponent to Have a Conscience
Why Nonviolent Resistance Doesn't Require Your Opponent to Have a Conscience
Tim Hjersted · 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...
'Groundbreaking': Michigan Sues Big Oil 'Cartel' for Conspiracy to Block Renewable Energy
'Groundbreaking': Michigan Sues Big Oil 'Cartel' for Conspiracy to Block Renewable Energy
Jessica Corbett · 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.
We Are All Minnesota
We Are All Minnesota
Mary Papenfuss · ​Trump thought Minnesotans would be pushovers and great “performance fodder” as televised victims of his version of macho violence. He was wrong.
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'
Jeffrey D. Sachs · 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...
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
Tim Hjersted · 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...
Dear Trump voters: A Quick Point of Clarification about the Left
Dear Trump voters: A Quick Point of Clarification about the Left
Tim Hjersted · 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...
Ending Republican Control Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership
Ending Republican Control Will Require Overcoming the Democratic Leadership
Norman Solomon · 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...
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
Tim Hjersted · 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...
The Socialist Case for AI: Defining Our Yes
The Socialist Case for AI: Defining Our Yes
Tim Hjersted · 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...
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
Tim Hjersted · 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...
The US-Israel Hybrid War Against Iran
The US-Israel Hybrid War Against Iran
Jeffrey D. Sachs · 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...
‘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
Jake Johnson · "Europe should respond to Trump’s blackmail with targeted measures aimed not at American consumers, but at American billionaires," wrote Gabriel Zucman.
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
Steven Donziger · We need a new model to fight ICE — including having local prosecutors indict its agents for murder, assault, and false arrests based on evidence.
The Flotillas to Gaza Are the World’s Conscience
The Flotillas to Gaza Are the World’s Conscience
Chris Hedges · 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.
Authoritarians Gain Power From Lists; Here's How to Fight Back
Authoritarians Gain Power From Lists; Here's How to Fight Back
John Marks · Schindler built a list to save lives. Natanson built one to save the truth. The FBI just seized it. Whose list are you on?
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
C.J. Atkins · 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.
We Are Not Powerless to Stop ICE—But We Must Act Now
We Are Not Powerless to Stop ICE—But We Must Act Now
Sarah Van Gelder · ​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...
Why Voting Alone Doesn’t Build Democracy — and What Actually Does
Why Voting Alone Doesn’t Build Democracy — and What Actually Does
Sharon Kyle · Elections matter, but history shows they are not enough. Real democracy is built through organized civic power between elections.
Six Points to Navigate the Turmoil in Iran
Six Points to Navigate the Turmoil in Iran
Vijay Prashad · 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...
Where Will We Stand? What World Do We Want To Live In?
Where Will We Stand? What World Do We Want To Live In?
Starhawk · 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...
“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
Amie Stager & Sarah Lazare · 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...
Organize! Yes, but How?
Organize! Yes, but How?
Rasmus Hästbacka · 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...
Zohran Needs to Create Popular Assemblies
Zohran Needs to Create Popular Assemblies
Gabriel Hetland, Bhaskar Sunkara · 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...
Mayor Mamdani Proves Progress Does Not Need to Be Slow
Mayor Mamdani Proves Progress Does Not Need to Be Slow
Qasim Rashid · Pundits and politicians mocked universal childcare as a socialist fantasy—now many of them are silent as it becomes a practical reality.
Imperialism and Christian Nationalism Are Among History's Deadliest Forms of Collectivism
Imperialism and Christian Nationalism Are Among History's Deadliest Forms of Collectivism
Tim Hjersted · 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.
Beyond the Border Wars: A Working-Class Approach to Immigration Reform
Beyond the Border Wars: A Working-Class Approach to Immigration Reform
Tim Hjersted · What would a genuinely humane immigration system actually look like? The answer is simpler than most politicians want to admit.
The Machinery of Terror
The Machinery of Terror
Chris Hedges · 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.
From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel Use the Same Violent Playbook
From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel Use the Same Violent Playbook
Ahmad Ibsais · 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...
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators
Eric Blanc, Claire Sandberg, and Wes McEnany · ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
More and More Americans Want to Abolish ICE
More and More Americans Want to Abolish ICE
Martin Burns · ​Even before the Minneapolis shooting, polls showed public support for dropping Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Pathology of Power: How America Learned to Love State Violence
The Pathology of Power: How America Learned to Love State Violence
Tim Hjersted · 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...
'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
Jake Johnson · "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."
Funded by Our Own Tax Dollars, American Fascism Is Here
Funded by Our Own Tax Dollars, American Fascism Is Here
Emese Ilyés · 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...
The Grand Illusion of Dying Empires
The Grand Illusion of Dying Empires
Chris Hedges · 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...
The Real Terrorists Are ICE! Justice for Renee Nicole Good
The Real Terrorists Are ICE! Justice for Renee Nicole Good
Tristan Taylor · 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...
The Renewable Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable
The Renewable Energy Revolution Is Unstoppable
David Suzuki · ​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...
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
Stephen Prager · “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.”
'Terrorists in Imperial Uniform': US Forces Kill 32 Cubans During Venezuela Invasion
'Terrorists in Imperial Uniform': US Forces Kill 32 Cubans During Venezuela Invasion
Brett Wilkins · What Trump administration officials called a "law enforcement operation" should, in fact, "be called a massacre," said one critic.
America the Rogue State
America the Rogue State
Chris Hedges · The evisceration of the rule of law at home and abroad solidifies America as a rogue state.
My Briefing to the UN Security Council Regarding US Aggression Against Venezuela
My Briefing to the UN Security Council Regarding US Aggression Against Venezuela
Jeffrey D. Sachs · 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...
US Attack on Venezuela Highlights Our Oil Addiction
US Attack on Venezuela Highlights Our Oil Addiction
Rick Steiner · 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...
The Time for an Anti-Imperialist Labor Movement Is Now
The Time for an Anti-Imperialist Labor Movement Is Now
James Dennis Hoff · Labor can’t claim to be on the side of workers while remaining neutral on the question of imperialism.
Building “Mass Governance” in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City
Building “Mass Governance” in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City
Sumathy Kumar and Gianpaolo Baiocchi · 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.
A New Year of Empire
A New Year of Empire
Tamara Pearson · 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.
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
Jake Johnson · "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...
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan · 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...
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
Bev Stohl · May his 97th birthday bring him peace.
Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025
Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025
Sonali Kolhatkar · In Texas, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and beyond, grassroots resistance to ICE is growing.
If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive the American Police State?
If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive the American Police State?
John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead · If Jesus were born in modern America, under a government obsessed with surveillance, crackdowns on undocumented immigrants, religious nationalism, and absolute obedience to a...
The Story of Christmas Is About the Poor Overcoming the Powerful
The Story of Christmas Is About the Poor Overcoming the Powerful
James Zogby · 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...
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
Tim Hjersted · 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.
Tools for Growing the Commons
Tools for Growing the Commons
Michel Rauchs · 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.
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
Tim Hjersted · 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."
A Letter to Conservatives: On Power, Principles, and the Path Forward
A Letter to Conservatives: On Power, Principles, and the Path Forward
Tim Hjersted · 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...
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
Nan Levinson · ​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...
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
Jake Johnson · One expert said the Trump White House is "replaying the Bush administration's greatest hits as farce."
Winning in Places Where the Democratic Party Is Dead
Winning in Places Where the Democratic Party Is Dead
Les Leopold · The door is wide open to try something new.
'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
Brett Wilkins · 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."
A National Network of Activists Pursuing “People’s Budgets” Gains Prominence
A National Network of Activists Pursuing “People’s Budgets” Gains Prominence
Celina Su · Across the country campaigns that meld community budget goals with participatory democratic practices have gained ground. Seattle and Nashville offer two examples.
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
Jim Naureckas · ​A new Department of Justice memo is another giant step towards authoritarianism; however, establishment media didn’t see it that way.
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
Christopher D. Cook · 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...
The Lies Americans Tell Themselves to Justify State Violence Against Migrants
The Lies Americans Tell Themselves to Justify State Violence Against Migrants
Scott Hechinger · 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.
When Cheering for Murder Is Disguised as Patriotism
When Cheering for Murder Is Disguised as Patriotism
Tim Hjersted · 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.
Trump’s Empire of Hubris and Thuggery
Trump’s Empire of Hubris and Thuggery
Jeffrey D. Sachs · 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...
You Know How to Whistle, Don't You?
You Know How to Whistle, Don't You?
Jennifer Thomas · Resistance to ICE and the Trump regime gets creative…drawing on protest traditions from around the world, and starting some new ones.
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
Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith · 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...
Those Cheering These Killings are Not Defending Civilization—They Are Dismantling It
Those Cheering These Killings are Not Defending Civilization—They Are Dismantling It
Tim Hjersted · The moment we allow governments to kill without trial, we step out of the rule of law and into barbarism.
How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline
How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline
Norman Solomon · Saving the country from autocracy requires recognizing—and then overcoming—the chokehold that Democratic leaders have on the party.
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
Tim Hjersted · “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.
Bernie’s Advice to His Fellow Elected Socialists
Bernie’s Advice to His Fellow Elected Socialists
Bernie Sanders · Over the weekend, Bernie Sanders spoke to a gathering of over a hundred democratic socialist elected officials. Here’s what he said.
What Is Libertarian Socialism?
What Is Libertarian Socialism?
Tim Hjersted · 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.
The Real Ideology Behind Reason Magazine's Anti-Socialist Crusade
The Real Ideology Behind Reason Magazine's Anti-Socialist Crusade
Tim Hjersted · 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...
What the ‘Men in Crisis’ Narrative Hides About Power, Capital, and Discontent
What the ‘Men in Crisis’ Narrative Hides About Power, Capital, and Discontent
Tim Hjersted · 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.
A Society Built on Scapegoats Will Always Destroy Itself
A Society Built on Scapegoats Will Always Destroy Itself
Tim Hjersted · 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...
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
Brett Wilkins · "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.
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
Tim Hjersted · 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...
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
Tim Hjersted · 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...
Democrats in Congress Are Out of Touch With Constituents on Israeli Genocide
Democrats in Congress Are Out of Touch With Constituents on Israeli Genocide
Norman Solomon · The political issue of complicity with genocide will not go away. And that's a good thing.
How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again
How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again
Errol Schweizer · 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...
How DSA Is Building Municipal Socialism in the Nation’s Largest City
How DSA Is Building Municipal Socialism in the Nation’s Largest City
Grace Mausser · A look inside the strategy, structure, and mass organizing powering the Left’s most ambitious municipal project in America.
The Case for a Planetary Identity in an Age of Collapse
The Case for a Planetary Identity in an Age of Collapse
Tim Hjersted · 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...
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
Peter Joseph · 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.
Giving Thanks on an Endangered Earth
Giving Thanks on an Endangered Earth
Erika Spanger · ​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.
How Compassion Becomes a Wrench in the Machinery of Extremism
How Compassion Becomes a Wrench in the Machinery of Extremism
Tim Hjersted · “So you’re saying we should just be nice to fascists.”
An Introduction to Integral: A Federated, Post-Monetary Cooperative Economy
An Introduction to Integral: A Federated, Post-Monetary Cooperative Economy
Peter Joseph · 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...
Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30
Declaration of the Peoples’ Summit Towards COP30
People's 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...
Eugene V. Debs, Defender of American Liberty
Eugene V. Debs, Defender of American Liberty
Jeffrey C. Isaac · 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.
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
Tim Hjersted · 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.
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
Tim Hjersted · 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...
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
Tim Hjersted · From the very beginning of the American project, race has been the primary tool for dividing the population against itself.
Schumer Democrats Can’t Stop Trump. Mamdani Democrats Can.
Schumer Democrats Can’t Stop Trump. Mamdani Democrats Can.
Ben Burgis · 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...
What Is the Opposite of Fascism?
What Is the Opposite of Fascism?
Tim Hjersted · 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...
Why Progressives Need to Be More Critical of Corporate Democrats, Not Less
Why Progressives Need to Be More Critical of Corporate Democrats, Not Less
Tim Hjersted · A former supporter recently unfollowed Films For Action's Facebook page, which I admin, saying:
Self-Determination, Not Goodwill, Will Decide the Global South’s Future
Self-Determination, Not Goodwill, Will Decide the Global South’s Future
Maryam Nawaz Sharif · 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...
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
Tim Hjersted · 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...
Films For Action Wants Your Feedback: A Note for Friends and Critics
Films For Action Wants Your Feedback: A Note for Friends and Critics
Tim Hjersted · 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.
Trump’s Greatest Ally Is the Democratic Party
Trump’s Greatest Ally Is the Democratic Party
Chris Hedges · 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...
America Is a Banana Republic
America Is a Banana Republic
Chris Hedges · El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.
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
Tim Hjersted · 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.
Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals Are Surprisingly Affordable
Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals Are Surprisingly Affordable
Richard Eskow · It would be nice if all revolutions came this cheap.
Dissent Is Patriotic: Daniel Ellsberg's Legacy Demands Action
Dissent Is Patriotic: Daniel Ellsberg's Legacy Demands Action
Eric Ross · 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.
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
Eric Ross · ​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...
Beyond Privilege, Guilt and White Culture: The Politics We Actually Need
Beyond Privilege, Guilt and White Culture: The Politics We Actually Need
Tim Hjersted · 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...
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.
Films For Action · “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...
Trump’s Orwellian Militarization of American Cities
Trump’s Orwellian Militarization of American Cities
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan · 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.
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
Sanho Tree · 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...
The No Kings Day Project Must Evolve From Protest to Civil Disobedience
The No Kings Day Project Must Evolve From Protest to Civil Disobedience
Phil Wilson · ​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.
Republicans Are Trying to Make Fascism Edgy and Hip
Republicans Are Trying to Make Fascism Edgy and Hip
Kyle Schmidlin · By declaring all opposition to themselves anti-fascism, MAGA isn’t leaving much mystery about their leanings.
Men: You Need Feminism! (Because Patriarchy is a Plot to Kill You!)
Men: You Need Feminism! (Because Patriarchy is a Plot to Kill You!)
Starhawk · This post is dedicated to men, however you define yourselves. Because right now there’s so much talk circulating about masculinity, touting warrior culture and the need for men to be...
Let’s Talk About Communism
Let’s Talk About Communism
Don Christoff · The word communism has been dragged through history as a banner for human politics. However, its Latin origin, communis, means shared, as in belonging to all. Long before Marx or Lenin...
How to Live Under Right-Wing Rule
How to Live Under Right-Wing Rule
James Rothenberg · Fascism, like communism, is an abstraction to Americans. We know little about it. We have not lived under it. Given current circumstances, let’s see if we are fast learners.
How Billionaires Benefit From Government Shutdowns
How Billionaires Benefit From Government Shutdowns
Igor Volsky · America’s richest often push for shutdowns to dodge taxes, avoid regulation, and slash benefits for working people.
Start Building the World You Want to Live in After Trump's Dark Age
Start Building the World You Want to Live in After Trump's Dark Age
Richard Sclove · As Trump demolishes the old and drives America toward a darker future, the Democrats’ instinct has been to grieve, resist, and dream of restoration. But restoration may be the wrong goal.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fought Crime Lords—Not Working Class People. They Would Oppose ICE.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fought Crime Lords—Not Working Class People. They Would Oppose ICE.
Tim Hjersted · Common-sense immigration reform points to the world the Turtles fought to build; militarized dragnet deportations point to Shredder’s vision for the world. Any kid can see that. Why...
How Progressives Can Transform the Dems to Save Our Democracy and Renew Prosperity
How Progressives Can Transform the Dems to Save Our Democracy and Renew Prosperity
Alan Minsky · Through an inside-outside strategy, we can unseat the neoliberal status quo, which condemns the party to failure, and facilitate the mass entry of the party’s progressive base, which...
The Great Blue Hope: Can Mamdani and Company Save the Democratic Party?
The Great Blue Hope: Can Mamdani and Company Save the Democratic Party?
Les Leopold · Charismatic leaders from above require mass movements from below.
The True Meaning of Democratic Socialism: A Union Educator’s View
The True Meaning of Democratic Socialism: A Union Educator’s View
Leo Casey · If Mamdani is elected mayor, as it now looks he will be, he will not be the first democratic socialist elected as the mayor of New York City.
Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup
Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup
Joseph Bouchard · ​The opposition’s proposed total economic surrender to US corporate interests would doom Venezuela to the same conditions that led to Chavez’s rise to power.
The Robots Are Not Here, but AI Is Still Supercharging US Militarism
The Robots Are Not Here, but AI Is Still Supercharging US Militarism
Nicholas Rabb · This new AI-centric military-industrial complex threatens to become an unaccountable superpower wielding new levels of control at home and abroad.
Why Not Take Over the Hollowed-Out Democratic Party?
Why Not Take Over the Hollowed-Out Democratic Party?
Les Leopold · Any effort by backers of an authentic working-class politics to seize the party will be like elbowing your way into a crowded subway car: lots of company and perhaps impossible to find a...
Bioregioning: The Defining Practice of Regenerative Cultures
Bioregioning: The Defining Practice of Regenerative Cultures
Daniel Christian Wahl · One could say that ‘bioregioning’ is our species long-term evolutionary survival pattern and hence a return to it may well be the most promising pathway our species can take through the...
Trump’s War on America
Trump’s War on America
Chris Hedges · Trump’s newest presidential memoranda criminalizes critics of empire, capitalism, Christian nationalism, abuses by the state and those who fight racism and gender discrimination.
Digital Tools Are Fueling the Rise of New “Time Exchange” Solidarity Economies
Digital Tools Are Fueling the Rise of New “Time Exchange” Solidarity Economies
Ella Fassler · Through time exchanges, members earn time credits by helping others, then redeem them when they need help themselves.
11 Haitians—Including 8 Children—Killed in 'Kamikaze' Drone Strike on Birthday Party
11 Haitians—Including 8 Children—Killed in 'Kamikaze' Drone Strike on Birthday Party
Brett Wilkins · "Who, ultimately, will assume responsibility for this attack: The prime minister? The transitional presidential council? Private security companies? The leadership of Haitian National...
Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk’s Death to Enact Sweeping Speech Crackdown
Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk’s Death to Enact Sweeping Speech Crackdown
Daniel Moritz-Rabson · The US has entered a new era of McCarthyism as the Trump administration equates leftist critique with “terrorism.”
We Are All Antifa Now
We Are All Antifa Now
Chris Hedges · The designation of the amorphous group antifa as a terrorist organization allows the state to brand all dissidents as supporters of antifa and prosecute them as terrorists.
Debunking Gad Saad's "Suicidal Empathy" Theory
Debunking Gad Saad's "Suicidal Empathy" Theory
Tim Hjersted · Gad Saad’s “suicidal empathy” thesis is the kind of shallow culture-war framing that sounds clever in a tweet but falls apart when you look at it seriously.
Degrowth and Liberty: Being Free With Less
Degrowth and Liberty: Being Free With Less
Florent Marcellesi · How is freedom, a polysemantic term, understood by the majority today? What is the relationship between modern freedom and the perpetual growth system? And what kind of freedom would...
The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
Chris Hedges · Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.
The Stalin Card
The Stalin Card
Tim Hjersted · Every time someone critiques capitalism, or suggests alternatives like public ownership, workplace democracy, or real economic self-governance, you can count on a predictable response...
The Real Prison Is Traffic: Debunking The 15-minute City Conspiracy
The Real Prison Is Traffic: Debunking The 15-minute City Conspiracy
Tim Hjersted · Most American towns before the 1950s were already 15-minute cities. What changed wasn’t freedom—it was corporations dismantling transit to profit from cars and sprawl.
100 Ways a Green New Deal Would Make America Great
100 Ways a Green New Deal Would Make America Great
Films For Action · The Green New Deal is often framed as a response to climate change — but whether you see it as a crisis or a hoax, the real point is what it delivers here at home: millions of good jobs...
How “Anti-Establishment” Conspiracies End Up Serving the Establishment
How “Anti-Establishment” Conspiracies End Up Serving the Establishment
Tim Hjersted · I’ll be honest: my favorite conspiracy theories are the ones that sound anti-establishment, rebellious, and free-thinking — but in practice, they do the establishment’s work for them...
Fear Can’t Hold Forever: How the Machinery of Tyranny Destroys Itself
Fear Can’t Hold Forever: How the Machinery of Tyranny Destroys Itself
George Cassidy Payne · When rulers isolate people to keep control, they also plant the seeds of their own downfall.
Missing Words: How Can We Respond to Our Biggest Challenges If We Don't Have Words to Describe Them?
Missing Words: How Can We Respond to Our Biggest Challenges If We Don't Have Words to Describe Them?
Nate Hagens · In 2022, I did an Earth Day talk called Words vs Reality, and it cataloged three dozen or so terms that – from a systems perspective – would actually require new labels. For...
A Localism Manifesto
A Localism Manifesto
Michael Shuman · With this manifesto, we are putting national governments everywhere on notice. We are not going away. We will become bolder in our local experiments and in our challenges to your authority.
Moral Injury: Murdered In Gaza Disappeared In America
Moral Injury: Murdered In Gaza Disappeared In America
Abba A. Solomon · The displaced and bereaved in Gaza, and the disappeared in America, are not the only ones experiencing injury. We who witness and cannot stop it also lose confidence in our ability to...
The Regenerative Revolution Is Now: 30 Documentaries About Regenerating Ecosystems, Local Economies, and Healthier, Joyful Lives
The Regenerative Revolution Is Now: 30 Documentaries About Regenerating Ecosystems, Local Economies, and Healthier, Joyful Lives
Tim Hjersted · Regenerative living is a revolutionary philosophy rooted in reciprocity, creativity, and care.
The Persecution of Francesca Albanese
The Persecution of Francesca Albanese
Chris Hedges · The sanctioning by the Trump administration of Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur, is an ominous harbinger of the end of the rule of international law.
Trump, Epstein and the Deep State
Trump, Epstein and the Deep State
Chris Hedges · The Trump administration’s refusal to release the Epstein files and videos is done not only to protect Trump, but the ruling class. They all belong to the same club.
Warning Unheeded: A Black Woman’s Reckoning
Warning Unheeded: A Black Woman’s Reckoning
InflexionPoint Podcast · Ignored Warnings, Predictable Consequences, Disastrous Outcomes
Profiting From Genocide
Profiting From Genocide
Chris Hedges · The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide.
Gaza’s Hunger Games
Gaza’s Hunger Games
Chris Hedges · Israel is weaponizing starvation. The objective is to dismantle all remnants of civil society and reduce Palestinians to herds of desperate scavengers who can be driven from historic...
War Deja Vu
War Deja Vu
Chris Hedges · The lies told to ignite the war with Iraq have been resurrected to ignite a war with Iran. The assessments of intelligence agencies and international bodies are dismissed, replaced by...
Israel's Strike on Iran Was Terrorism. No More Excuses. We Must Demand an Arms Embargo Now.
Israel's Strike on Iran Was Terrorism. No More Excuses. We Must Demand an Arms Embargo Now.
Tim Hjersted · Israel's unprovoked attack on Iran Friday has killed not only high-ranking military officials, but also six Iranian scientists, including two prominent nuclear experts. Nearly 80...
Never Forget? Never Forgive? Never Again?
Never Forget? Never Forgive? Never Again?
Tim Hjersted · Let’s talk about memory, forgiveness, and the selective outrage that props up the logic of endless war.A commentor told Films For Action on a recent post:
The Rule of Idiots
The Rule of Idiots
Chris Hedges · 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.
How the Fantasy of Trump as an Anti-Establishment Rebel Protects the Status Quo
How the Fantasy of Trump as an Anti-Establishment Rebel Protects the Status Quo
Tim Hjersted · A persistent fiction continues to capture the imagination of a significant segment of the American public — the notion that Donald Trump is, or ever was, an “anti-establishment” figure...
Why Building Inspiring Alternatives Is Necessary to Counter Authoritarianism
Why Building Inspiring Alternatives Is Necessary to Counter Authoritarianism
Barbara Peterson · Here are seven ways that communities — rural and urban, small and large — can begin developing their own constructive programs that can radically shift the balance of power.
Empire With Decorum: the Complicity of Cory Booker and the Crisis of the Democratic Party
Empire With Decorum: the Complicity of Cory Booker and the Crisis of the Democratic Party
Tim Hjersted · During Cory Booker's 25-hour speech, which many mistook for an act of moral courage, he never once mentioned the atrocities committed by our so-called ally, Israel. No acknowledgment of...
Toward a Sacred Cosmology of Belonging: to Heal the World, We Don't Need Shame or Blame, We Need to Remember and Reconnect
Toward a Sacred Cosmology of Belonging: to Heal the World, We Don't Need Shame or Blame, We Need to Remember and Reconnect
Tim Hjersted · In our search to understand the immense suffering caused by colonization, racism, and centuries of domination, it’s natural to feel anger, grief, even guilt. These are human responses to...
Dems, Do the Right Thing and Stop Funding Genocide
Dems, Do the Right Thing and Stop Funding Genocide
Elizabeth West · On April 3, Sen. Bernie Sanders forced votes on the floor of the Senate on two Joint Resolutions of Disapproval, specifically S.J. Res. 33 and 26, each intended to stop the transfer of...
Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings
Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings
Shodo Spring · This writing began with the premise that humans are not alone in this world, and that our largest problems are rooted in imagining ourselves alone. The original focus was on climate...
Universal Basic Income: Answering The Common Objections
Universal Basic Income: Answering The Common Objections
Tim Hjersted · Whenever the idea of a Universal Basic Income comes up, certain objections are raised almost immediately. These concerns deserve real answers. So here’s five of the most common...
Why We Need a Workers' Bill of Rights in the Age of Automation
Why We Need a Workers' Bill of Rights in the Age of Automation
Tim Hjersted · There's a question at the heart of the coming automation revolution that too few people in power are willing to answer honestly: Who will own the gains? Will it be the hedge funds...
Stop Blaming Immigrants. Start Blaming the Real Criminals.
Stop Blaming Immigrants. Start Blaming the Real Criminals.
Tim Hjersted · Let's get something clear: undocumented immigrants commit less crime than U.S. citizens. This isn't speculation. It's not "just one study." It's the consistent finding of virtually every...
10 Lessons for Stronger Movements
10 Lessons for Stronger Movements
Tim Hjersted · Our real opponents are the billionaires, the war profiteers, and the politicians in both parties bought by corporate money—not the few imperfect allies we have in power, and not the...
American Concentration Camps
American Concentration Camps
Chris Hedges · Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps — including those in El Salvador — it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black...
The Deportation-Industrial Complex Is The New War on Drugs—And It's Just as Corrupt
The Deportation-Industrial Complex Is The New War on Drugs—And It's Just as Corrupt
Tim Hjersted · Spending hundreds of billions on mass deportation for non-violent civil offenses or misdemeanors is the “war on drugs” rebranded. And it’s true—just like the war on drugs, mass...
First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil
First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan · The Trump administration’s nationwide roundup of international students accused of holding opinions it dislikes is picking up speed, sowing fear, separating families and driving people...
Yes. It's a Genocide - The Evidence Is Overwhelming
Yes. It's a Genocide - The Evidence Is Overwhelming
Tim Hjersted · When analyzing the ongoing assault on Gaza, it is imperative to begin not with slogans or opinion, but with the clear and unequivocal framework of international law. The UN Genocide...
Localization Action Guide: 137 Actions to Resist and Renew
Localization Action Guide: 137 Actions to Resist and Renew
Local Futures · Join the localization movement to build resilient local economies and flourishing communities. Local Futures produced a detailed Localization Action Guide to encourage everyone to 'GO...
Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History
Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History
Chris Hedges · The assault on historical memory by the Trump administration is designed to obliterate our shared understanding of reality and whitewash the crimes of the past to whitewash the crimes of...
The Self-Defeating Politics of the American Left
The Self-Defeating Politics of the American Left
Tim Hjersted · Bernie Sanders has always been more flawed than many on the left would like. His refusal to call Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide, along with several of his foreign policy votes over...
The Real Sheepdogs of the Left
The Real Sheepdogs of the Left
Tim Hjersted · In response to Bernie Sanders and AOC's "Fight Oligarchy" tour, the same chorus of voices rings out: “Don’t be fooled by these so-called progressives! They’re just sheepdogging for the...
We Asked Our Community How to Make America Great—Here's What They Said
We Asked Our Community How to Make America Great—Here's What They Said
Films For Action · We recently posed a simple question to our community on Facebook: How can we make America great? We got hundreds of comments.
The Right's Wokeness Problem
The Right's Wokeness Problem
Tim Hjersted · Paul Graham’s recent essay on “wokeness” is useful—not because it offers an entirely sound analysis, but because it provides a fascinating case study in ideological blind spots.
Pentagon Contractors Don’t Save Lives or Money — Medicaid Does
Pentagon Contractors Don’t Save Lives or Money — Medicaid Does
Hanna Homestead · Cutting life-saving services to further enrich billionaires and Pentagon contractors is the worst possible option.
The Illegality of Russia's War Does Not Justify Perpetual War
The Illegality of Russia's War Does Not Justify Perpetual War
Tim Hjersted · The Russian invasion of Ukraine was a clear violation of international law. It meets the definition of a war crime under the UN Charter’s prohibition on the use of force, barring cases...
Musk and Rogan's Three-Hour Echo Chamber: Unpacking the Unfounded Claims
Musk and Rogan's Three-Hour Echo Chamber: Unpacking the Unfounded Claims
Jane Prescott · How a marathon conversation turned into a conspiratorial manifesto—unchecked claims about Democrats, voting, and immigration, fact-checked and debunked.
Elon Musk Is Wrong: Without Empathy, Civilization Ceases to Be Anything Worthy of the Name
Elon Musk Is Wrong: Without Empathy, Civilization Ceases to Be Anything Worthy of the Name
Tim Hjersted · Elon Musk’s attack on empathy is an old reactionary trick. First, he sets it up with a weak disclaimer:
10 Ways to Fix America's Rigged Monopoly Game
10 Ways to Fix America's Rigged Monopoly Game
Tim Hjersted · Alright folks. Real talk. We’ve reached a point where the top 1% owns more than the bottom 90% combined. That’s not a bug in the system—it’s the system working exactly as designed.
Our 2 Choices: Join the Democratic Party to Transform It, or Acquiesce to Fascism
Our 2 Choices: Join the Democratic Party to Transform It, or Acquiesce to Fascism
Alan Minsky · Because of the structure of American society and politics, the Democratic Party is the only institution positioned to challenge, defeat, and reverse the Trump administration’s ongoing...
Behind Trump's Antiwar Bluster, His Goal Is to Turn Ukraine Into a Resource Colony for US Corporations
Behind Trump's Antiwar Bluster, His Goal Is to Turn Ukraine Into a Resource Colony for US Corporations
Films For Action · The cynical choreography of empire follows a familiar script: first, a nation is shattered by war; next, the vultures descend to divide the spoils.
Make Earth Great Again: a Manifesto for Ecological Democracy
Make Earth Great Again: a Manifesto for Ecological Democracy
Films For Action · Make Earth Great Again (MEGA) exists to support and amplify the movements that are actively working towards a just, regenerative, free and egalitarian world. MEGA seeks to reclaim the...
How a Progressive Government Would End the War in Ukraine
How a Progressive Government Would End the War in Ukraine
Films For Action · "The Democratic Socialists of America condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and demands immediate diplomacy and de-escalation to resolve this crisis. We stand in solidarity with the...
Attacking Trump Without a Positive Alternative Is a Losing Game
Attacking Trump Without a Positive Alternative Is a Losing Game
Les Leopold · Trump winning twice is not an accident. It’s the result of the abject failure of a [liberal] political strategy that ignores financial reform and attempts to nudge the Democratic Party...
The Left Needs to Learn the Difference Between Imperfect Allies and Our True Opponents
The Left Needs to Learn the Difference Between Imperfect Allies and Our True Opponents
Tim Hjersted · Tearing down the few allies we have in power is a gift to the establishment. The problem isn't their imperfections. It's that there's only a few of them instead of hundreds.
How We Win: A Movement Strategy to Unite #DemExit and #DemEnter
How We Win: A Movement Strategy to Unite #DemExit and #DemEnter
Tim Hjersted · Whether we focus on taking over the Democratic Party or building power outside it, let's invest in the path we've chosen and learn to support allies that choose a different way.
The Phantom Menace of “Equality of Outcome”
The Phantom Menace of “Equality of Outcome”
Tim Hjersted · The right’s fixation on “equality of outcome” as a specter haunting the Western world is not merely a misunderstanding. It is a deliberate fabrication, a straw man conjured to divert...
Why Working People Need a Political Movement of Their Own
Why Working People Need a Political Movement of Their Own
Les Leopold · There is no question that the Democratic Party, once the party of the working class, is now the party of the professional managerial class.
Now That Trump Is in Office, Who Is Really Running the Country?
Now That Trump Is in Office, Who Is Really Running the Country?
Films For Action · 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...
Playbook for Defeating the 1% - the Swedish and Norwegian Model
Playbook for Defeating the 1% - the Swedish and Norwegian Model
Films For Action · This playbook is inspired by the insights of George Lakey and the transformative movements of Norway and Sweden in the early 20th century. These nations, once marked by extreme poverty...
Now Is the Time for Progressives to Take Over the Democratic Party
Now Is the Time for Progressives to Take Over the Democratic Party
Alan Minsky · This moment of crisis is an opportunity to get the party on track. We should not squander it.
Yasuní: The “Yes” Heard Around the World
Yasuní: The “Yes” Heard Around the World
Pablo Solón · “Leave the oil in the ground? Give up more than a billion dollars a year? Put nature above the economy? What madness is this?”
All-Aboard for Free Public Transport
All-Aboard for Free Public Transport
Daniel Santini · From utopia to reality: fare-free public transport in Brazil.
Why People Hate Socialism—and What It Actually Is
Why People Hate Socialism—and What It Actually Is
Tim Hjersted · Socialism is one of the most vilified and misunderstood ideas in modern political discourse. The number one reason for this hatred? Most people have no idea what socialism actually is.
Radical Ecological Democracy: More Reflections From the South on Degrowth
Radical Ecological Democracy: More Reflections From the South on Degrowth
Ashish Kothari · The multiple crises that humanity is facing are becoming increasingly visible: in the form of disasters related to ecological damage, the stark inequalities between a tiny minority of...
65 Documentaries Inspiring the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
65 Documentaries Inspiring the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
Tim Hjersted · 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...
It's Time to Abolish Private Health Insurance
It's Time to Abolish Private Health Insurance
Tim Hjersted · We must challenge the logic of empire and violence—both state-sanctioned and vigilante, Tim Hjersted writes, while urging a shift to collective, nonviolent action to dismantle the...
How We Got Here: 17 Documentaries That Explain Why the Mass Media Is the Crisis
How We Got Here: 17 Documentaries That Explain Why the Mass Media Is the Crisis
Films For Action · The crisis of mass media lies at the heart of every other crisis we face today. Economic inequality, a ravaged planet, endless wars—none of these can be addressed if the public is...
The Real Climate Scam Is Business as Usual — Here's How We Challenge It
The Real Climate Scam Is Business as Usual — Here's How We Challenge It
Tim Hjersted · Capitalism thrives on profiting from crisis—it sold us lies about cigarettes, sugar, and opioids, and now it's doing the same with climate change. Fake solutions and disinformation...
Revenge of the Deplorables?
Revenge of the Deplorables?
Les Leopold · Think about it this way, maybe it's the Democratic Party which has become deplorable to the working class.
UN Report Warns of Escalating Genocide in Gaza
UN Report Warns of Escalating Genocide in Gaza
Chris Hedges · A United Nations report, published in October, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate “the very existence of the Palestinian people in...
The Movement We Need
The Movement We Need
Starhawk · It is my deepest desire to see the emergence of the movement we need right now—one that is open, welcoming, broad-based, strategic, and oriented to our core human needs, one that can...
13 Principles for a Welcoming Movement
13 Principles for a Welcoming Movement
Starhawk · If we want to build a broad-based movement, a regenerative movement that can heal and renew the world, a movement that attracts people as they really are, not just as we think they...
The Real Agenda Behind Mass Deportations
The Real Agenda Behind Mass Deportations
Tim Hjersted · Trump’s mass deportation plan, though framed as a way to protect American jobs, actually helps corporations exploit workers and harms the U.S. economy. Here’s how: 🧵
This Post-Election Take Is Going Viral for the Best Possible Reason
This Post-Election Take Is Going Viral for the Best Possible Reason
Tim Hjersted · It's true.
The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not in Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way.
The Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not in Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way.
Richard Moser · “Capitalism, militarism and imperialism are disastrously intertwined with the fossil fuel economy….A globalized economy predicated on growth at any social or environmental costs, carbon...
Why Democrats Lose Even When Republicans Are so Endlessly Terrible
Why Democrats Lose Even When Republicans Are so Endlessly Terrible
Chuck Idelson · Amid the postmortems and reckoning that will now follow the wreckage of Donald Trump’s return to “absolute” power, as authorized by the Supreme Court, there are two notes in particular...
15 Principles for Courageous Living in a World That Wants You to Give Up
15 Principles for Courageous Living in a World That Wants You to Give Up
Tim Hjersted · How do we nourish our hearts and fortify our spirits so we can resist despair when the world looks so grim? How do we face the suffering of the world without being crushed by it? The...
The Politics of Cultural Despair
The Politics of Cultural Despair
Chris Hedges · It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what the Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for...
Vote for Our Movements, Not Politicians: a Strategic Guide to Elections, Where Activism Matters Most
Vote for Our Movements, Not Politicians: a Strategic Guide to Elections, Where Activism Matters Most
Tim Hjersted · This is a guide to think less like a voter and more like an activist.
Not Voting In Protest Is a Trap: Real Impact Requires Material Strategy, Not Symbolism
Not Voting In Protest Is a Trap: Real Impact Requires Material Strategy, Not Symbolism
Tim Hjersted · Strategic materialism + activism > symbolic protest at the ballot box or the couch.
Punishing the Democrats: Is This the Best Way to Oppose a Genocidal War?
Punishing the Democrats: Is This the Best Way to Oppose a Genocidal War?
Stephen R. Shalom · Some people on the left make the following argument: we need to vote for a third party in this election, even or especially in swing states, as a way to punish the Democrats for their...
Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Progressive Democrats Statement on Presidential Election
Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and Progressive Democrats Statement on Presidential Election
We the Undersigned · As Democrats and leaders in the Palestinian, Arab, Muslim and Progressive communities in Arizona, we the undersigned make the following statement, published on 10/24/2024:
Arizona Community Leaders Say Trump Win Would Be "Worst Possible Outcome" for Palestinians
Arizona Community Leaders Say Trump Win Would Be "Worst Possible Outcome" for Palestinians
Jake Johnson · "Trump must be defeated," Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and progressive leaders in Arizona wrote in an open letter. "The only way to defeat him is to elect Kamala Harris."
Kamala Harris: Heed the People's Call. Arms Embargo Now!
Kamala Harris: Heed the People's Call. Arms Embargo Now!
Tim Hjersted · We are living through this generation's WW2 moment. What will we tell our children when war crimes, including the crime of collective punishment, was committed against the Palestinian...
Trump’s Victory Won’t Push the Democrats Left — It’ll Only Weaken Our Movements
Trump’s Victory Won’t Push the Democrats Left — It’ll Only Weaken Our Movements
Tim Hjersted · "It’s one thing to criticize neoliberalism; it’s quite another to imagine that a fascist regime will provide better conditions for our movements to flourish."
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