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The 86 House Democrats Who Condemned Socialism Weren’t Defending Democracy—They Were Defending Concentrated Private Power
The 86 House Democrats Who Condemned Socialism Weren’t Defending Democracy—They Were Defending Concentrated Private Power
When 86 House Democrats—including party leader Hakeem Jeffries—join Republicans to “condemn the horrors of socialism,” you don’t need a political science degree to understand what’s happening.
Tim Hjersted
The Central Function of Race in America Has Been to Prevent Class Solidarity
The Central Function of Race in America Has Been to Prevent Class Solidarity
From the very beginning of the American project, race has been the primary tool for dividing the population against itself.
Tim Hjersted
Schumer Democrats Can’t Stop Trump. Mamdani Democrats Can.
Schumer Democrats Can’t Stop Trump. Mamdani Democrats Can.
A week after Zohran Mamdani’s inspiring win, the Democratic Party’s centrist leadership proved its worthlessness in the Senate. The moderate party establishment is no match for Trumpism. It’s time to give Mamdani’s democratic socialism a chance.
Ben Burgis
What Is the Opposite of Fascism?
What Is the Opposite of Fascism?
Fascism is not merely a set of authoritarian habits or unpleasant attitudes. It is a political arrangement designed to centralize power: the fusion of state authority with corporate interests; the suppression of dissent; the mobilization of nationalist mythology to bind the...
Tim Hjersted
Why Progressives Need to Be More Critical of Corporate Democrats, Not Less
Why Progressives Need to Be More Critical of Corporate Democrats, Not Less
A former supporter recently unfollowed Films For Action's Facebook page, which I admin, saying:
Tim Hjersted
Self-Determination, Not Goodwill, Will Decide the Global South’s Future
Self-Determination, Not Goodwill, Will Decide the Global South’s Future
The Global South did not cause this crisis, but we are determined to define its solution. In Punjab, that solution begins with clean streets, safe water, affordable energy, and credible finance – all bound by one idea: the path out of climate despair runs through green...
Maryam Nawaz Sharif
Trump's Death Squad
Trump's Death Squad
A short history of the United States' long war on drugs in Latin America, with the president's kill zone expanding from the Caribbean waters off Venezuela to the Colombian and Peruvian coasts in the Pacific Ocean.
Greg Grandin
The Happiness Trap: Cultivating Contentment and Wonder as a Radical Path Forward
The Happiness Trap: Cultivating Contentment and Wonder as a Radical Path Forward
Forget chasing fleeting joy. The pursuit of happiness can leave us isolated, but cultivating contentment and wonder builds resilience, deepens connection, and makes life more enduring.
Martina Moneke
How to Defeat Concentrated Private Power: A Practical Guide to Chris Hedges’ Prescription for Change
How to Defeat Concentrated Private Power: A Practical Guide to Chris Hedges’ Prescription for Change
To defeat the rise of authoritarianism, Chris Hedges has called for mass movements, strikes and counter‑institutions to challenge corporate rule and revive democracy. This guide breaks down his suggestions into actionable steps.
Tim Hjersted
Films For Action Wants Your Feedback: A Note for Friends and Critics
Films For Action Wants Your Feedback: A Note for Friends and Critics
Dear friends and critics, I care a lot about what our supporters think. I read most of the comments on our Facebook posts and I try to take in as many as I can.
Tim Hjersted
Trump’s Greatest Ally Is the Democratic Party
Trump’s Greatest Ally Is the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside.
Chris Hedges
America Is a Banana Republic
America Is a Banana Republic
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.
Chris Hedges
Community-Driven Catalysts for Degrowth
Community-Driven Catalysts for Degrowth
By embedding degrowth principles in local, everyday practice, "Kreisler" associations offer a vision for urban provisioning beyond extraction and individualism and toward a communal, crisis-resilient future.
Cléo Mieulet
Mamdani's Win Is Proof That an Organized Public Can Defeat Organized Money
Mamdani's Win Is Proof That an Organized Public Can Defeat Organized Money
Zohran Mamdani’s election in New York City is not simply a local upset. It is a breach in the ideological dam that has kept American politics safely contained for generations.
Tim Hjersted
Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals Are Surprisingly Affordable
Zohran Mamdani’s Proposals Are Surprisingly Affordable
It would be nice if all revolutions came this cheap.
Richard Eskow
Beyond Privilege, Guilt and White Culture: The Politics We Actually Need
Beyond Privilege, Guilt and White Culture: The Politics We Actually Need
I keep hearing a similar story. Someone steps into “privilege” work hoping to grow, and instead walks away feeling shamed and under attack, as if their identity is the problem. One reader online put it starkly:
Tim Hjersted
Dockerworker Strikes in Solidarity With Gaza Have a Long Legacy
Dockerworker Strikes in Solidarity With Gaza Have a Long Legacy
Since dockworkers operate at a crucial “choke point” in the military supply chain to Israel, their boycotts are a powerful form of solidarity with Gaza.
Peter Cole
FDR Warned Us about Organized Money. The Threat He Saw Now Dominates Both Political Parties in the US.
FDR Warned Us about Organized Money. The Threat He Saw Now Dominates Both Political Parties in the US.
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know...
Films For Action
Trump’s Orwellian Militarization of American Cities
Trump’s Orwellian Militarization of American Cities
By the end of "1984," Winston is brutalized into accepting the lies. This need not be our fate. Trump's attempt to send troops into American cities can and must be resisted.
Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Gratitude in the Great Unraveling
Gratitude in the Great Unraveling
If collective survival is possible, there will be a lot of work ahead. We’ll be more effective in that work if we’re unburdened by hate and recrimination, and are instead rooted in gratitude for life, nature, and community.
Richard Heinberg
The US Is Broken. Time to Think About What Comes Next
The US Is Broken. Time to Think About What Comes Next
Recalling William Appleman Williams' vision for a continental confederation of regional commonwealths.
Patrick Mazza
Don't Let a Fascist Like Trump Act as Judge, Jury, and Executioner
Don't Let a Fascist Like Trump Act as Judge, Jury, and Executioner
Would it be okay for the Mexican military to blow up a US fishing boat because they believed it was smuggling deadly guns into Mexico, even if they offered no evidence? Would that be acceptable to this administration?
Sanho Tree
I Became 'Antifa' as a Child; I Never Looked Back
I Became 'Antifa' as a Child; I Never Looked Back
“Never again” means each of us taking a stance. This starts with protecting and using our words.
Maria Perez
Republicans Are Trying to Make Fascism Edgy and Hip
Republicans Are Trying to Make Fascism Edgy and Hip
By declaring all opposition to themselves anti-fascism, MAGA isn’t leaving much mystery about their leanings.
Kyle Schmidlin
Men: You Need Feminism! (Because Patriarchy is a Plot to Kill You!)
Men: You Need Feminism! (Because Patriarchy is a Plot to Kill You!)
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 more manly men, that it’s important to understand what patriarchy actually is.
Starhawk
Let’s Talk About Communism
Let’s Talk About Communism
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, this was not an ideology but a condition of existence. Everything that lives participates...
Don Christoff
How to Live Under Right-Wing Rule
How to Live Under Right-Wing Rule
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.
James Rothenberg
How Billionaires Benefit From Government Shutdowns
How Billionaires Benefit From Government Shutdowns
America’s richest often push for shutdowns to dodge taxes, avoid regulation, and slash benefits for working people.
Igor Volsky
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
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.
Richard Sclove
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.
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 can’t we?
Tim Hjersted
Laying the Groundwork for Social Strikes
Laying the Groundwork for Social Strikes
Mass “people power” uprisings, general strikes, and other forms of withdrawal of popular acquiescence in tyranny have established or restored democracy in many countries. While the conditions for such “social strikes” are far from mature in the US at present, a time may come...
Jeremy Brecher
How to Counter the Growing Threat of Agent Provocateurs
How to Counter the Growing Threat of Agent Provocateurs
Those who want movements to fail will try to lure them into violence. A new handbook shows how to reduce that risk.
George Lakey
Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically Says Yes
Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically Says Yes
The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.
George Lakey
The True Meaning of Democratic Socialism: A Union Educator’s View
The True Meaning of Democratic Socialism: A Union Educator’s View
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.
Leo Casey
Solidarity With Venezuela’s Left Opposition: A Call for Principled Anti-Authoritarianism
Solidarity With Venezuela’s Left Opposition: A Call for Principled Anti-Authoritarianism
The global left must stand up for left thinkers and activists facing persecution in Venezuela, and reject false anti-imperialism that allows an authoritarian drift.
Daniel Chavez
Trump's Anti-Immigrant Violence Is a Message for the Rest of Us
Trump's Anti-Immigrant Violence Is a Message for the Rest of Us
​This is how it always starts, this process of getting citizens used to the government using violence that will one day be turned against them.
Thom Hartmann
The Travesty of the Nobel Peace Prize
The Travesty of the Nobel Peace Prize
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has once again gone to someone whose moral record stands at sharp odds with the spirit of peace itself—someone who has either openly justified or quietly enabled state violence, occupation, or genocide.
Partha Banerjee
'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize
'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize
As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention dressed up as democracy.
Michelle Ellner
Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup
Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup
​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.
Joseph Bouchard
The Robots Are Not Here, but AI Is Still Supercharging US Militarism
The Robots Are Not Here, but AI Is Still Supercharging US Militarism
This new AI-centric military-industrial complex threatens to become an unaccountable superpower wielding new levels of control at home and abroad.
Nicholas Rabb
Israeli Government Votes to Implement Trump Peace Plan for Gaza, Hamas Pledges to Uphold It
Israeli Government Votes to Implement Trump Peace Plan for Gaza, Hamas Pledges to Uphold It
According to the Israeli newspaper
Juan Cole
Why Not Take Over the Hollowed-Out Democratic Party?
Why Not Take Over the Hollowed-Out Democratic Party?
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 seat.
Les Leopold
Jane Goodall: “Fight to the Very End”
Jane Goodall: “Fight to the Very End”
“I have no doubt that we have the tools to make the change, but do we have the will to make the change?"
Ted Glick
Designing Land Access With Deep Time in Mind: Moving Toward a Timeless Ethic of Land Stewardship
Designing Land Access With Deep Time in Mind: Moving Toward a Timeless Ethic of Land Stewardship
When we begin to act with deep time in mind, perhaps future generations will remember us not for what we took, but for what we tended, protected, and passed on.
Darby Weaver
Bioregioning: The Defining Practice of Regenerative Cultures
Bioregioning: The Defining Practice of Regenerative Cultures
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 tumultuous if not catastrophic decades ahead.
Daniel Christian Wahl
Trump’s War on America
Trump’s War on America
Trump’s newest presidential memoranda criminalizes critics of empire, capitalism, Christian nationalism, abuses by the state and those who fight racism and gender discrimination.
Chris Hedges
Digital Tools Are Fueling the Rise of New “Time Exchange” Solidarity Economies
Digital Tools Are Fueling the Rise of New “Time Exchange” Solidarity Economies
Through time exchanges, members earn time credits by helping others, then redeem them when they need help themselves.
Ella Fassler
Peak Oil for Gen Z: Seven Questions and Answers for a New Generation
Peak Oil for Gen Z: Seven Questions and Answers for a New Generation
Peak oil calls on us to imagine a lower-energy future and to start adapting now. It’s a game-changer, and a life-changer.
Richard Heinberg
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
"Who, ultimately, will assume responsibility for this attack: The prime minister? The transitional presidential council? Private security companies? The leadership of Haitian National Police?” asked one advocate.
Brett Wilkins
Censorship Is a Structural Problem: Huge Corporate Power, Not Just a President, Is Muzzling Comedians
Censorship Is a Structural Problem: Huge Corporate Power, Not Just a President, Is Muzzling Comedians
As corporate media accelerate their censorship of comedians and journalists, we must realize that we got to this dire situation because of old-fashioned, bipartisan corruption in Washington. The problem didn’t begin with Donald Trump. It began long ago, especially in the...
Jeff Cohen
Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk’s Death to Enact Sweeping Speech Crackdown
Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk’s Death to Enact Sweeping Speech Crackdown
The US has entered a new era of McCarthyism as the Trump administration equates leftist critique with “terrorism.”
Daniel Moritz-Rabson
We Are All Antifa Now
We Are All Antifa Now
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.
Chris Hedges
Debunking Gad Saad's "Suicidal Empathy" Theory
Debunking Gad Saad's "Suicidal Empathy" Theory
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.
Tim Hjersted
Challenging Corporate Power and Rights Has Never Been So Important
Challenging Corporate Power and Rights Has Never Been So Important
So if we want real change – and a world where future generations of all life, not just human beings, can live in peace with equal rights and justice for all – we have to tackle corporate rights, powers, structures and impunity.
Helena Paul
Degrowth and Liberty: Being Free With Less
Degrowth and Liberty: Being Free With Less
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 post-growth have to put forward?
Florent Marcellesi
The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
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.
Chris Hedges
Eleven Dead on the High Seas. Trump Is Testing the Waters For Illegal Military Rule in America
Eleven Dead on the High Seas. Trump Is Testing the Waters For Illegal Military Rule in America
The recent massacre in the Caribbean was a step toward making America a police state under President-for-Life Trump.
Mitchell Zimmerman
Your Socialist Grandfather Wants You to Fight for Economic Democracy
Your Socialist Grandfather Wants You to Fight for Economic Democracy
​"The left" must get back to what was its original reason for existence—to fight for one-person, one vote democracy in the economic as well as political systems that govern our lives.
Gary Engler
The Stalin Card
The Stalin Card
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: someone parachutes into the comments with “Mao! Stalin! Pol Pot!” like it’s a mic drop.
Tim Hjersted
The Real Prison Is Traffic: Debunking The 15-minute City Conspiracy
The Real Prison Is Traffic: Debunking The 15-minute City Conspiracy
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.
Tim Hjersted
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