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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 outward, not just upward. If A.I.’s promise is that it’s going to “save us time,” then it...
Vishal Reddy
My fellow tenants and I were able to win rent relief and repairs in our building. Maybe you can, too.
Cynthia Barlow
We need movements that can hold complexity, sustain relationships, keep people in the struggle and invite more in, not chew them up and spit them out. Radical consciousness is not enough. We need to match it with radical tools. Here is my attempt to pass some of those tools on.
Millie Boella
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
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
22 min
The US and Israeli political / military alliance is controlled by 3 cults. It's imperative we understand their coordination strategy, and their end game -- so we can defeat their self-destructive ideology.
Rasmus Hästbacka of the syndicalist union SAC highlights leading ideas of syndicalism and their usefulness in contemporary class struggle.
Rasmus Hästbacka
Cut the military budget in half. Bloated war spending remains a sacred cow for far too many.
Eric Blanc
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 and ecological objectives.
Jason Hickel
47 min
In US-blockaded Cuba, ingenious mechanics and inventors revive old machines to survive during a time of scarcity.
35 min
Join us in this thought-provoking series as we explore the complexities of Western patriarchy and its impact on traditional Indigenous male roles.
12 min
As federal immigration agents descended on Minneapolis last month, residents deployed mutual aid to protect their neighbors. From 3D-printed whistles and eye wash attachments that flush out chemical irritants, to community screen printing to memorial bike rides, the city is...
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
35 min
Before I resume my content, I have to take a moment to acknowledge the current sociopolitical turmoil. As someone with deep reverence for the collective that is the human spirit, it's in my cultural values to stay grounded in this world, and that goes for the virtual world as...
96 min
Purpose asks the central question of our time: What is the purpose of our economies — and how can we change them? Director Martin Oetting follows two visionaries, Katherine Trebeck (founder of the Wellbeing Economy Governments alliance) and Lorenzo Fioramonti (who rises from...
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
With millions of Americans’ resistance still limited to consumer choices plus attending an occasional protest, we’re leaving a lot of potential people power on the table. If even a fraction of these individuals became active participants in campaigns and organizations, our...
Eric Blanc
Swedish social democracy produced one of the most humane societies in history. That wouldn’t have happened without a militant labor movement and a working-class political party.
Nick French
The case for a better future
TheLastFarm
A commons world is decentralised, stable and unified, not statist, growth-obsessed and 'left’. I’d like to persuade the left away from statist ‘solutions’, and yes, to recruit the 'right' as well – why not?
Dave Darby
“We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank that puts our money to work for our people.”— Zohran Mamdani, Victory Speech, Nov. 4, 2025
Ellen Brown
Here's how to reduce electricity demand while improving quality of life.
TheLastFarm
These policies are fully within the new mayor's power and would visibly improve daily life in New York without waiting on Albany.
TheLastFarm
Eight years ago, the Ecosystem Restoration Communities (ERC) movement began with a simple but powerful belief: that everyday people everywhere could restore the land beneath their feet and, in doing so, restore hope for our shared future.
Ecosystem Restoration Communities Staff
“Revolution is not a paradise on earth. It is a constant process of change, with obstacles and shortcomings,” Felix Weber, a member of the Internationalist Commune in Rojava, told me. “The difference is that people here don’t pull back from the obstacles but try to overcome...
Shane Burley
We can fight child sexual abuse using a block-and-build strategy rooted in economic, racial, and gender justice.
Chanelle Gallant, Shannon Perez-Darby
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
The left has absorbed right-wing frameworks that undermine our efforts, often making our spaces inaccessible and unwelcoming to new people, writes Chris Crass. Liberation culture encourages us to become and be the leaders we needed, or wish we had, when we were new.
Chris Crass
These overlooked offices control the budgets, databases, and cooperation that make the terror possible—or impossible.
Kelly Dietrich
The Trump administration claims that its assault on immigrants will protect American workers. But its masked, armed federal agents are creating hostile environments for all workers, not just immigrants.
Sarah Lazare
16 min
Zohran's plan for city-run grocery stores has drawn intense pushback from critics.
Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.
Jackie Summers
The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario.
Manuel Casal Lodeiro
Minnesota shows what’s possible—here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE
Eric Blanc
With few exceptions, the Democratic Party apparatus is coasting, playing “it safe,” and expecting that the Trumpsters will deliver the Congress to it in November.
Ralph Nader
A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all
Eric Blanc
Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.
Rivera Sun
Values keep movements honest, while a material approach gets results, and there’s a time and place for both.
Mehran Khalili
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
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
This call is very much in the history of how general strikes have emerged in this country since the mid 19th century.
Eugene Puryear
Firearms may feel like instruments of resistance, but they do not create the collective capacity required to confront either state or corporate power. Organized labor—strikes, boycotts, mass noncompliance, & withdrawal of labor—by contrast, operates at the level Friedrich...
Rachel Hoopsick
The problem wasn't the method of resistance. It was the near-total absence of sustained, mass-scale resistance of any kind.
Tim Hjersted
Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
Sarah van Gelder
186 min
This is me thinking out loud, carefully and practically, about how real political change actually happens — based on history, organising in Brixton since I was imprisoned, and a lot of experience inside movements that worked… and some that didn’t.
Here are 5 calls to action you can take now to help protect our neighbors.
Qasim Rashid
The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down — strikes.
Chris Hedges
We need to examine nonviolent resistance critically. But dismissing it based on misconceptions about how it functions, or romanticizing armed struggle while ignoring its failures, leaves movements unprepared for the work ahead.
Tim Hjersted
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
53 min
From South Korea to Serbia to the Philippines, people power uprisings have toppled authoritarian regimes — armed with nothing but conviction and solidarity.
If nonviolence required tyrants to grow a heart, we'd be finished, because violence is exactly what they're begging for. History shows we beat them by withdrawing pillars of support until they're forced to concede.
Tim Hjersted
17 min
Ryan Holiday shares his strategies for effective reading, emphasizing quality over quantity and deep engagement with texts. He reads hundreds of books annually while managing multiple businesses, writing, and being a father, without using speed-reading or summaries (0:00-0:22).
118 min
In this episode, Peter Joseph addresses the release of the Integral White Paper, as the core focus, and critiques the pervasive vagueness of alternative economic discourse, arguing that terms like socialism, communism, and Marxism function as empty abstractions that obscure...
14 min
A full 10% of NYC Trump voters turned around and voted for Zohran Mamdani. So we went to talk to them. These voters are done with the status quo. One New Yorker told us: "As Americans, we can realize it's not Republican versus Democrat. It's more of like a class war."-----
The city is the solution.
Patrick Mazza
The reality is that while ICE’s violence has become more public, what we are seeing today is not a deviation from how it has always acted. .
Jordan Liz
Investments toward a more trained immigration force will only uphold and legitimize mass deportation, family separation, and state terror.
Jaboa Lake
The Democratic establishment shuns the progressive populism that’s vital to effectively counter bogus right-wing populism. And so, the fight to defeat the fascistic GOP and the fight to overcome the power of corporate Democrats are largely the same fight.
Norman Solomon
There's a pattern in left politics that's both understandable and ultimately self-defeating: we're brilliant at articulating what we oppose, but often struggle to define what we're for. We can catalog the horrors of capitalism and empire in exhaustive detail, but when pressed...
Tim Hjersted
Nina Turner's insight cuts to a crucial distinction in movement work: there's a difference between trying to win arguments and trying to build power. But I'd take it further—the deepest purpose of activism isn't even primarily about changing minds or mobilizing the...
Tim Hjersted
14 min
We can abolish ICE by the end of January. We can shut down any more talk of invading other countries. And we can force the immediate release of the Epstein files. By demanding congress filibuster to shut down the government until our demands are met.
"Europe should respond to Trump’s blackmail with targeted measures aimed not at American consumers, but at American billionaires," wrote Gabriel Zucman.
Jake Johnson
While U.S. imperialism escalates sanctions, military threats, and interventionist pressure, the Islamic Republic is brutally repressing popular resistance to preserve clerical rule. Only the independent self-organization and mobilization of the Iranian working class, youth...
Left Voice
We need a new model to fight ICE — including having local prosecutors indict its agents for murder, assault, and false arrests based on evidence.
Steven Donziger
We need to build independent economic bases where we live.
Patrick Mazza
This article presents 3 statements from Iranian workers’ organisations. As one group writes, "Long live the workers’ strikes! No to Zionism, no to monarchy, no to imperialism. Yes to class organisation, yes to the working-class revolution."
Leftcom
Elections matter, but history shows they are not enough. Real democracy is built through organized civic power between elections.
Sharon Kyle
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 collective power at work.
Rasmus Hästbacka
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 new, bottom-up political culture in New York City.
Gabriel Hetland, Bhaskar Sunkara
5 min
This year, my friends and I are taking on a huge project. We're going to try to build our own houses on land that we bought this summer.
Pundits and politicians mocked universal childcare as a socialist fantasy—now many of them are silent as it becomes a practical reality.
Qasim Rashid
What would a genuinely humane immigration system actually look like? The answer is simpler than most politicians want to admit.
Tim Hjersted
Ordinary people can run society — but only if we build the structures to let them.
Roger Hallam
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
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 crush the powerless. It's the same impulse that filled Roman coliseums and medieval...
Tim Hjersted
37 min
Solarpunk is an aesthetic and genre which envisions a sustainable future built around social and ecological resilience. It often includes concepts such as renewable energy, rewilding & harmony with nature, counter-culturalism and decolonialism, collective living, optimism...
Labor can’t claim to be on the side of workers while remaining neutral on the question of imperialism.
James Dennis Hoff
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
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 journalism.
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
Trump, his sycophants, and the billionaires behind him know that with the coming midterm elections, 2026 could be their last unconstrained chance to suppress democracy and siphon off America’s wealth for themselves. So, what can you do?
Robert Reich
In Texas, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and beyond, grassroots resistance to ICE is growing.
Sonali Kolhatkar
Critics of state violence become most dangerous when they directly jeopardize the state’s capacity to inflict violence. The most common and tangible way that happens is when soldiers refuse to kill.
Kevin Young
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
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
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, especially the one they think will be more responsive to their opposition.
Tim Hjersted
The door is wide open to try something new.
Les Leopold
Taxing the rich should bring a smile to your face. It certainly brings one to mine.
Max Page
Across the country campaigns that meld community budget goals with participatory democratic practices have gained ground. Seattle and Nashville offer two examples.
Celina Su
More than 100 democratic socialist elected officials, staffers, and organizers from across the US met in New Orleans for the How We Win conference last weekend. The gathering demonstrated American socialists’ growing influence and confidence.
Branko Marcetic
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 future.
Christopher D. Cook
19 min
Behind Italy’s beauty (and parmesan) is a radical tradition of cooperatives. In some areas, they make up nearly a fifth of the GDP. We went to Emilia-Romagna, one of the richest regions in the country, to investigate how Italy’s workers built a more democratic economy.
30 min
In this video we outline:
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 private retailers to keep prices in check.
Tim Hjersted
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 on to fix the problem. Our food system needs a public option.
Errol Schweizer
A look inside the strategy, structure, and mass organizing powering the Left’s most ambitious municipal project in America.
Grace Mausser
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
Robert Reich
A transformation of climate politics will come when the majority on the margins becomes a self-aware political force. The approach sketched here—combining adaptation, emotionally literate education, and campaigns that awaken collective efficacy—offers practical, hopeful steps...
Liam Kavanagh
“So you’re saying we should just be nice to fascists.”
Tim Hjersted
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 reciprocity, and democratic coordination, starting with small mutual-aid projects at the...
Peter Joseph
"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, transnational corporations, and the ruling classes bear the main responsibility for these crises."
People's Summit Towards COP30