Eugene V. Debs, Defender of American Liberty

Released from jail on this day 130 years ago, the great socialist and labor leader delivered a speech we would do well to remember in these perilous times.

Jeffrey C. Isaac · 452 views · unrated

A Letter to Conservatives: On Power, Principles, and the Path Forward

Our ask isn't that you become a progressive. It's for both loyal Democrats and loyal Republicans to stop defending their party uncritically and to challenge the rot in both parties...

Tim Hjersted · 434 views · unrated

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

The January 3 attack on Venezuela culminated in the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. The LTS in Venezuela, together with the CRP-CI internationally...

Milton D'León · 371 views · unrated

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...

Tim Hjersted · 275 views · unrated

This Facebook Comment About the UK Election Is Going Viral

This post has been flying around social media, winning lots of praise and shares. Chris Renwick, we thank you.

Chris Renwick · 4,108,274 views · 89%

The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not to End the War or Save Lives.

Like all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save both American and Japanese lives.

Washington's Blog · 590,231 views · 77%

6 Destructive Ideas Perpetuated in Western Culture

Since the day you emerged into this bizarre, sparkling universe, you’ve been conditioned to think in certain ways.

Jordan Bates · 68,417 views · 99%

The Elites That Gutted America Now Dare To Ring Alarms About Trump And Cast Themselves as Saviors

Both parties ignored workers, spewed hate, enriched themselves, hollowed out democracy. Now the problem's populism?

Anis Shivani · 66,504 views · 88%

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

"We encourage every city official, business owner, student, and citizen to read this book. Besides being incredible in terms of seeing the building of "civilization" differently (which...

Daniel Quinn · 66,084 views · 97%

Neoliberalism—The Ideology at the Root of All Our Problems

Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all.

George Monbiot · 59,668 views · 82%

Cops Threaten a Blue Coup in New York City

“The police union chief instructed his members to impose a martial law-type policing regime on the city.” When Police Benevolent Association chief Patrick Lynch said New York Mayor Bill...

Glen Ford · 38,693 views · 92%

10 Compelling Reasons You Can Never Trust The Mainstream Media

A poll in 2012 showed that trust in the mainstream media is increasing, which should worry all of us who value truth, integrity and press freedom.

Sophie McAdam · 37,857 views · 98%

The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling

Let me speak to you about dumbness because that is what schools teach best. Old-fashioned dumbness used to be simple ignorance: you didn't know something, but there were ways to find out...

John Taylor Gatto · 36,681 views · 100%

The Conflation Trap: How the Left & the Right Are Fooled Into Supporting the Same Elite Interests

Left-libertarians differ from the (current) libertarian mainstream both in terms of what outcomes they regard as desirable, and in terms of what outcomes they think a freed market...

Roderick Long · 27,967 views · 100%

How Bosses Are (Literally) Like Dictators

Americans think they live in a democracy. But their workplaces are small tyrannies.

Elizabeth Anderson · 22,563 views · 94%

Watch 10 Inspiring Animated Shorts Celebrating Indigenous Culture

With films like Pocahontas, Apocalypto, Peter Pan and The Green Inferno, it's safe to say that Hollywood has a deplorable track record when it comes to its portrayal of Indigenous...

John Ahni Schertow · 22,314 views · 100%

The New Mind Manipulators

Your mind is being controlled by distant strangers who don’t have your best interests at heart. If that sounds like a paranoid fantasy, brace yourself and read on. These are the findings...

Jeremy Lent · 20,445 views · 88%

American Horror Story

I went backstage at the biggest political show on earth- and found America telling stories about itself

Laurie Penny · 20,198 views · 100%

How 'Hygge' Can Help You Get Through Winter

The vague cultural concept doesn't translate easily into English, but it has helped Denmark become the 'happiest country on Earth' despite long, dark winters.

Russell McLendon · 19,246 views · 100%

The Abolition of Work

No one should ever work.

Bob Black · 19,050 views · 94%

20 Big Ideas for Creating a Democratized Economy

The economic collapse of 2008 came at the end of three decades of stagnant wages that resulted in record household debt and made it apparent that the economy does not work for most...

It's Our Economy · 16,675 views · 100%

Anonymous Declares War On The Koch Bros.

Dear Citizens of the United States of America,

Anonymous · 15,705 views · 100%

NY Daily News Claims FDR Unfit to Be President: "No Concrete Plans, Only Platitudes"

[The following is an imagined 1932 New York Daily News editorial board interview with Franklin Roosevelt during his presidential campaign. The Daily News comments below derive from...

Les Leopold · 14,410 views · 88%

Americanism Personified: Why Fascism Has Always Been an Inevitable Outcome of the American Project

"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." This quote, which has often been misattributed to Sinclair Lewis, is wise in recognizing the...

Colin Jenkins · 13,870 views · 88%

The True Purpose of Government Should Be Investing in People, Not Empire

What is the true purpose of government? Critics would rightly say it's to control and dominate because that's the nature of every government we've known. Every government since the days...

Tim Hjersted · 13,291 views · 69%

We Want a Political Revolution. First We Must Defeat Fascism.

The insurgent Bernie Sanders campaign was a big step forward in building the progressive populist political alignment we need. We have to figure out how to keep building after this...

Jonathan Matthew Smucker · 13,025 views · 100%

The Soviet Union Versus Socialism

When the world’s two great propaganda systems agree on some doctrine, it requires some intellectual effort to escape its shackles.

Noam Chomsky · 12,949 views · 94%

Another Neocon Endorses Clinton, Calling Her "2016's Real Conservative" and "The Candidate of the Status Quo"

Wall Street has thrown its weight behind Hillary Clinton. Some of the biggest names in the U.S. right-wing establishment have also

Ben Norton · 12,476 views · unrated

Anarchists United: Is It Possible For Anarchists of Every Kind to Work Together?

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how the diverse anarchist strategies could combine against our current class society. How every variation on the theme of “assert your freedom now,” from...

Uriel Alexis · 12,165 views · unrated

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The Bottleneck. Peak Everything. The Great Turning. Whatever You Call It, It's the Big Enchilada

In the words of filmmaker Tom Shadyac, "The shift is hitting the fan." We're experiencing the dawn of a revolutionary transformation. This awkward 'tween state marks the end of...

Biggest Ideas · 10,564 views · 54%

Sixteen Building Blocks of a Green, Entrepreneurial, Cooperative Economy

The transition from a capitalist to a cooperative economy could be one of the defining achievements of the 21st century.

Guy Dauncey · 9,743 views · 100%

How to Change the Course of Human History

(at least, the part that's already happened)

David Graeber and David Wengrow · 9,360 views · 100%

Left Progressive Media Inside the Propaganda Model

In Manufacturing Consent (1988; and updated in Herman,1996). Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky claim that because media is firmly imbedded in the market system, it reflects the class values and...

Peter Phillips and Project Censored · 9,276 views · 100%

Green Capitalism: The God That Failed

The results are in: No amount of "green capitalism" will be able to ensure the profound changes we must urgently make to prevent the collapse of civilization from the catastrophic...

Richard Smith · 8,913 views · 100%

Five Reasons Why You Never Want to Be rich

If you’re suffering from ‘affluenza’ it’s time to recognize that you’re sick.

Darrin Drda · 8,814 views · 88%

'World Government' Is a Real Thing, But There Is No 'New World Order' Conspiracy Behind It

Kevin Carson dismisses the NWO conspiracy theory narrative of world government, which in many ways resembles a kind of 'cartoon evil' as it is often depicted. There is a more grounded...

Kevin Carson · 8,374 views · 94%

Who Owns the Benefit? The Free Market as Full Communism

There’s a wonderful phrase for how capitalism works in the real world (I’m not sure who first came up with it, but I associate it with Noam Chomsky): “The socialization of risk and cost...

Kevin Carson · 8,321 views · 62%

Regenerative Agriculture: Our Best Shot at Cooling the Planet?

It’s getting hot out there. For a stretch of 16 months running through August 2016, new global temperature records were set every month.[1] Ice cover in the Arctic sea hit a new low this...

Jason Hickel · 8,105 views · 100%

Mainstream Media: Presstitutes for the Rich and Powerful

While the Rupert Murdoch scandal is justifiably front-page news, there is a much wider problem with the mainstream media. Purchasing ReportersFamed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein...

Washington's Blog · 7,742 views · 100%

Whatever is Neo-Colonialism?

Neo-colonialism: what is it? The no messin' answer. Neo-colonialism is the successor to colonialism or empire building. In the 18th and 19th centuries European countries were fairly...

Class unity · 7,517 views · 95%

The Unofficial History of America™

The history of America is the one story every kid knows. It's a story of fierce individualism and heroic personal sacrifice in the service of a dream. A story of early settlers, hungry...

Kalle Lasn · 7,487 views · 100%

A Decolonial Critique of the Concept of White Privilege: Why Injustice Is Not a Privilege

Introduction Many progressive people use the concept of “white privilege” to analyze racism. Critique is an essential component of decolonial knowledge production. It is a way of...

Sandew Hira · 7,429 views · unrated

The Boston Bombings Gave Americans a Taste of the Terrorism the U.S. Inflicts Abroad Every Day

April is usually a cheerful month in New England, with the first signs of spring, and the harsh winter at last receding. Not this year. There are few in Boston who were not touched...

Noam Chomsky · 7,418 views · 75%

Debt, Inequality and the Logic of Financial Violence

Five years after Occupy, organizer and anthropologist David Graeber speaks to ROAR about the power of finance, the history of inequality and the legacy of the movement.

David Graeber · 7,320 views · 88%

What Republicans and Conservative Libertarians Really Stand For, As Explained by an Anarchist

A strange thing happened during the October 2013 battle in the US Congress over a government shutdown and threat of default. The Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, denounced the...

Wayne Price · 6,809 views · 100%

The Zombie Doctrine - Neoliberalism Rules The World

Crisis after crisis is being caused by a failed ideology. But it cannot be stopped without a coherent alternative.

George Monbiot · 6,666 views · 100%

Flying the Flag, Faking the News

Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda. During the First World War, he was one of a group of influential liberals who mounted a...

John Pilger · 6,479 views · 75%

Blockchain Revolution: Open Source Democracy for the 99%

"The revolution in this era may not need pitchforks, as the ‘peasants’ can just stop paying for the plutocracy." “The Pitchforks Are Coming ... For Us Plutocrats”! This is how...

Nozomi Hayase · 5,842 views · unrated

"The Divide" Shows Inequality on the Big Screen

Inequality represents simultaneously a cornerstone and a weak link in today's capitalism. The idea that wealth creation for the few benefits the many is a core myth of the system. But...

Steve Rushton · 5,826 views · unrated

Debunking the White Ethno-State

This is the first part in a series criticizing the ideas of white supremacy.

Emmi Bevensee · 5,418 views · 19%

American Cartel: How America's Two Major Parties Helped Destroy Democracy

Cartel: An association of manufacturers or suppliers with the purpose of maintaining prices at a high level and restricting competition.

Frank Castro · 5,263 views · 88%

Ukraine Crisis is about Great Power Oil & Gas Pipeline Rivalry

Resource scarcity and competition to dominate the Eurasian energy corridors are behind Russian militarism and US interference

Nafeez Ahmed · 5,007 views · 88%

Who's Really to Blame for Fake News? Look in the Mirror, America.

Consider for a moment the oxymoronic concept of “fake news,” which we have been hearing so much about lately. This isn’t your typical disinformation or misinformation — generated by the...

Neal Gabler · 4,944 views · 100%

What is Left Libertarianism?

Although it's pretty safe to say that no canonical definition of left libertarianism exists, there is a growing consensus around a certain body of concepts, priorities, and attitudes...

leftlibertarian.org · 4,879 views · 100%

Towards a Transformative Anti-Fascism

The Relevance of Radicalized Peacebuilding to Antifa Praxis

Emmi Bevensee · 4,806 views · 100%

The Promise of a Million Utopias

If more of us could embrace “live and let live,” if we were willing to give every geographic area an opportunity to create its own utopia, Americans might be thrilled to reengage with...

Michael Shuman · 4,201 views · unrated

Biocultural Rights: A New Paradigm for Protecting Natural and Cultural Resources of Indigenous Communities

This article proposes a new concept of “biocultural rights” that justly reflects a broader intellectual and policy trend to holistically address the protection of Indigenous natural and...

Cher Weixia Chen and Michael Gilmore · 4,120 views · unrated

The Revolution Is Acceptance

"Waiting for some distant point in the future when we're all magically agreeing with one another to begin working together, is like deciding to climb Mount Everest on the condition that...

David Heaps · 3,985 views · 88%

The NFL Has Always Been Political

Those who decry the “politicization of sports” are only mad that it’s black athletes now.

Travis Waldron · 3,906 views · unrated

Ending The Oil Age

Big Oil’s days are numbered – but the industry could still take us all down with it. From divestment to disruption, Jess Worth explores how the transition to an oil-free future is...

Jess Worth · 3,673 views · 100%

When Climate Met COVID: 7 Reasons We Should Tackle These Challenges Together

We face not one but three simultaneous inter-connected crises: the COVID-19 Emergency, the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency, and the Crisis of Capitalism. We urgently need connected...

Guy Dauncey · 3,624 views · unrated

How to Create Abundant Cities

Is it enough for our lives, our economy, our cities to become “sustainable”? If being sustainable means no more than being able to maintain the status quo of strife and never having...

Wolfgang Hoeschele · 3,570 views · 100%

The Most Important Article You’ll Never Read? How Western Media Support State Terror, While Millions Die, and How This Article Was Killed

As media theorists, we set out in Spring 2019 to pool our collective expertise into a short and very readable article for the mainstream press about how media treats Western foreign policy.

Matthew Alford, Daniel Broudy, Jeffery Klaehn, Alan MacLeod, Florian Zollmann · 3,336 views · 100%

When Will Ordinary People Rise Up?

Public uprisings and mass occupations have become a significant force for change on the world stage since 2011, as evidenced in the Middle East revolutions and Occupy protests across...

Adam Parsons · 3,298 views · 81%

The Hidden Welfare State

The UK has two welfare states. There is one that is reported and endlessly discussed, and another, which is rarely mentioned. Whilst the first is suffering enormous cuts under the...

syzygysue · 3,290 views · 75%

The Feudalism of Facebook: New Pay-to-Play News Feed as Indy Media Killer

The Facebook empire of 1.4 billion users just conquered new territory, unrolling a "partnership" to host articles from some of the most well-known news publications in the world, in a...

Sarah Lazare · 3,174 views · unrated

The Big Story: Can We Change Civilization by Changing Its Origin Story?

How did humans go from savanna-dwelling primates to moon-bouncing Tide Pod™ eaters? This is the big question that Big History has been trying to answer for millennia. Sure, other ages...

Samuel Miller McDonald · 3,170 views · unrated

Terror in Anaheim

Last weekend, news cameras zoomed in on a theater in Aurora, where many moviegoers were shot down, apparently by a gunman trying to act out a crazed fantasy. While the mass killing...

MICHELLE CHEN · 3,109 views · unrated

Pandemic Response Requires Post-Growth Economic Thinking

Amid a horrific human tragedy of sickness and death, much of it taking place in hospitals staffed by brave but overworked and under-equipped doctors and nurses, we are all learning once...

Richard Heinberg · 3,016 views · 100%

An Outline of Benefits from a Lower Energy Civilization

The universe ultimately runs on an energy economy, not a market economy as the dominant economic ideology claims. Ecological damage is tied to energy use of any kind in our peculiar type...

Karl North · 2,804 views · unrated

Two Ways to Build Global Community

A platform co-operative approach to information, rather than the models of Facebook and legacy media, provide reason for optimism, writes Dan Hind.

Dan Hind · 2,736 views · 94%

Oil Fuels War and Terrorists Like Isis. The Climate Movement Can Bring Peace

We can make peace, with our energy sources, the planet and with each other if we end our addiction to oil

Rebecca Solnit · 2,691 views · 88%

With Allies Like These: Reflections on Privilege Reductionism

Over the course of the last several decades, anti-oppression politics have risen to a position of immense influence on activist discourse in North America. Anti-oppression workshops and...

Common Cause Ottawa · 2,455 views · 100%

The End of the "End of History"

In China and beyond, liberalized markets aren't fostering democracy — they're undermining it.

Eli Friedman and Andi Kao · 2,278 views · unrated

Capitalism and the TPP: A Kinder, Gentler Totalitarianism

Corporate propaganda has convinced the populace that government alone is to blame for our problems, rather than recognizing the complete fusion of corporate power and government...

Dennis Weiser · 2,245 views · unrated

To Do Justice to Mandela's life, the Struggle Must Continue

Brian Ashley of South Africa's Amandla magazine says that in the battle to overcome inequality and achieve social justice, we will need many more Nelson Mandelas. Some are born...

Brian Ashley, Red Pepper/Amandla · 2,173 views · 75%

An Ideal Blueprint: The Original Black Panther Party Model and Why It Should Be Duplicated

The following is a list of attributes, both tangible and conceptual, that made the BPP an effective model for true liberty and self-determination; and, consequently, a substantial threat...

Colin Jenkins · 2,092 views · 88%

Taking the Initiative Back For the Movement After the Brinsley Killings

For brutal wannabe fascists like police union thugs, for liberal authoritarian politicians like President Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus and most big city mayors, for media...

Bruce A. Dixon · 2,007 views · 100%

Let Them Eat Privilege

Focusing on privilege diverts attention away from the real villains.

Connor Kilpatrick · 1,948 views · 100%

Land Without Bread: the Green New Deal Forsakes America's Countryside

Days after the heart-stopping Notre-Dame Cathedral fire in April, Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg trained her eyes on the United Kingdom’s parliament and chastised its meager response...

Catherine Tumber · 1,924 views · 75%

The Pathology of Power: How America Learned to Love State Violence

The comments celebrating Renee Good's death reveal a psychological pattern familiar to anyone who has studied authoritarian movements: the sadistic pleasure derived from watching power...

Tim Hjersted · 1,804 views · unrated

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

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

Jeremy Brecher, Alex Caputo-Pearl & Jackson Potter · 1,783 views · unrated

How Not to ''Bern Out'': Ten Steps Toward a Future We Can Believe In

In the last six months, a relatively low-profile senator from a low-profile state has become a national and even global political phenomenon. At a recent speech in the South Bronx, over...

Quincy Saul · 1,747 views · 100%

Why the “Anthropocene” is not “Climate Change”

“Anthropocene” is a widely proposed name for the geological epoch that covers human impact on our planet. But it is not synonymous with “climate change,” nor can it covered by...

Julia Adeney Thomas · 1,538 views · 75%

Understanding the Blue Church

In my Situational Assessment: 2017, I quoted a post from Reddit: “The Blue Church is panicking because they’ve just witnessed the birth of a new Red Religion. Not

Jordan Hall · 1,347 views · unrated

The New Movement: Are We There Yet?

“This movement-in-the-making has no choice but to challenge the very legitimacy of the State and its armed organs of coercion.” After decades of misleader-induced lethargy and quietude...

Glen Ford · 1,327 views · 88%

To Save US Democracy, Tax the Rich at 90%

Wealthy people in America screamed and yelled when FDR said he would do it, claiming a hike from 25% to 90% would crash the economy, but instead that top tax rate kicked off the first...

Thom Hartmann · 1,327 views · unrated

Who Owns the Future of California's Energy? Its Residents

For many homeowners, rooftop solar is a smart move. But what if you could get every home and business in your entire county to switch to renewables, all at once? This is essentially...

Peter Kalmus · 1,270 views · unrated

Trump Says Go Back, We Say Fight Back

“I am not suggesting that white racism alone explains Trump’s victory. Nor am I dismissing the white working class’s very real economic grievances. It is not a matter of disaffection...

Robin D.G. Kelley · 1,250 views · unrated

American Decline in the Fossil Fuel Age

By the time Donald Trump leaves office in 2029, this country will be distinctly on the imperial decline. By discouraging alternative energy and encouraging fossil fuels, President Trump...

Alfred W. Mccoy · 1,159 views · unrated

The Case Against Police Brutality: Towards Radical Social Transformation

[T]he biggest enemy of society’s security is the state and the private organization’s belonging to it. Selma Irmak, member of the Democratic Society...

Yavor Tarinski · 1,079 views · 75%

Whatever is Neo-Liberalism?

Neo-liberalism, like capitalism, is not usually a consciously accepted ideology it is a descriptive term. In fact neo-liberalism is best understood as the particular form and stage of...

Class unity · 1,053 views · 100%

When Concerns of Cultural Appropriation Risk Supporting Intellectual Property

The latest entry in panics over social justice comes from my hometown, where some folks have created a list shaming restaurants and foodcarts that were owned by white people but sold...

William Gillis · 1,034 views · 75%

My War on Terror: Letter to an Unknown US Patriot

Dear American Patriot,

Tom Engelhardt · 949 views · 88%

Corporations Are Human Creations. We Can't Let Them Threaten Our Survival

The concentration of corporate power is driving us toward catastrophe. We need new organizational models that serve the common good.

David Korten · 854 views · unrated

We Need Electoral Reform — and a Whole Lot More

The United States would be much better off with a multiparty, proportional representation system. But we shouldn't delude ourselves that this “one quick fix” would root out the rot that...

Chris Maisano · 847 views · unrated

Why We Need a Workers' Bill of Rights in the Age of Automation

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...

Tim Hjersted · 699 views · unrated

How Public Groceries Can Make Food Affordable Again

Errol Schweizer, a former national vice president of grocery at Whole Foods, argues in Jacobin that the private sector is responsible for ever-rising grocery prices and can’t be relied...

Errol Schweizer · 509 views · unrated

Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa, and a Hot Tub of Death

When a mega-billionaire carps that a “doomsday outlook” is harming the climate movement, it's important to say many things in response, including this: he's dead wrong.

Juan Cole · 467 views · unrated

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

When we talk about saving the world, what world are we talking about? Not the globe itself, obviously. But also not the biological world—the world of life. The world of life, strangely...

Daniel Quinn · 18,996 views · 100%

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