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Why Isn't News of Trump Building Vast Concentration Camps Being Treated as a National Emergency?

History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people.

Thom Hartmann

The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think

If you want a more progressive Democratic Party, the California governor ain't it.

Norman Solomon

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Our present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future.

Films For Action

Meet the Top 7 Oligarchs Controlling Your Online News

The internet has not democratized news in any meaningful way; instead, the media monopoly has simply migrated to digital spaces.

Caitlin Scialla

Not In The Streets, Still In The Fight

Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.

Jackie Summers

Chomsky and Epstein: What the Evidence Actually Shows

The recent release of emails and photos revealing new details about Noam Chomsky's relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has sparked controversy across the political...

Tim Hjersted

Gallego Says ‘Grind the Country to a Halt’ With National Strike If Trump Tries to Rig Midterms

“We need to make sure that we have an ultimate response to that which, I believe, has to be a true national strike,” he said.

Brad Reed

Why I Teach White History Month in February

If Whites learn about their radical history, their proud class struggles against the parasitic elites, their defiance of established religions and political powers, maybe they will stop...

Diallo Kenyatta

Nonviolent Movements Not Only Win — They Win Faster

Nonviolent resistance movements are not only more likely to succeed than their violent counterparts — they also tend to achieve success more quickly.

Stockholm University Communications Office

Field Notes for Cracking an Empire

How to stay alive when the fight arrives at your door.

Jackie Summers

How Did MLK Jr. Become a Socialist?

A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all

Eric Blanc

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

A more beautiful, egalitarian and regenerative world is possible. Take this library and use it to inspire global change!

Tim Hjersted

Chomsky Reassessed?

Knowing him for over half a century, I am confident that Noam’s hate for sexism, misogyny, racism, exploitation and fascism didn’t lose even a tiny fraction of its passion and clarity...

Michael Albert

The Left's Self-Destructive Obsession with Shame

Perhaps the most redeeming aspect of my father’s ministry was his tireless work to help people heal from guilt and shame. I saw the transformative impact that his efforts had on people’s...

R.L. Stephens

Arming Ourselves Isn’t the Answer to Rising Authoritarianism

Expanding gun ownership in response to ICE’s horrific violence is not a path toward safety or liberation, argues epidemiologist Rachel Hoopsick. It is a path to more death, more...

Rachel Hoopsick

The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

"When working-class people (or their upper-class idols) argue that the rich must get richer to properly motivate the rich, but the poor must stay poor or else they will lose all...

Yasha Levine

The White Man in That Photo

Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer...

Riccardo Gazzaniga

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Suppress Multi-Racial Rebellions & Divide the Working Class. It's Time to Give It Up.

Many of us have heard the arguments for discarding the faulty logic behind "white pride" but what about "whiteness" itself?

Tim Hjersted

An Urgent Warning to America, From German Grannies Against the Far Right

Dear American Citizens,

Grans-United

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

For the majority of the past century, a battle has been waged between two dominant ideologies – capitalism and communism. Both competing economic systems focus on how best to allocate...

Chris Agnos

Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis

Matriarchies are not just a reversal of patriarchies, with women ruling over men – as the usual misinterpretation would have it. Matriarchies are mother-centered societies. They are...

Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth

How to Build a Real General Strike Against ICE

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

Five Maps That Will Change How You See the World

Boston public schools recently announced that they will shift to using world maps based on the Peters projection, reportedly the first time a US public school district has done so. Why?...

Donald Houston, University of Portsmouth

"This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed" and Other Objections to Strategic Nonviolence

We need to examine nonviolent resistance critically. But dismissing it based on misconceptions about how it functions, or romanticizing armed struggle while ignoring its failures, leaves...

Tim Hjersted

Why We Should Teach About the FBI’s War on the Civil Rights Movement

Mainstream textbooks almost entirely ignore COINTELPRO. Though COINTELPRO offers teachers a trove of opportunities to illustrate key concepts, including the rule of law, civil liberties...

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

Tim Wise and the Failure of Privilege Discourse

"Unfortunately, I think our use of the term “privilege” is no longer a productive way for us to gain a thorough understanding of systemic injustice, nor is it helping us to develop...

R.L. Stephens

Why Nonviolent Resistance Doesn't Require Your Opponent to Have a Conscience

If nonviolence required tyrants to grow a heart, we'd be finished, because violence is exactly what they're begging for. History shows we beat them by withdrawing pillars of support...

Tim Hjersted

An Introduction to Integral: A Federated, Post-Monetary Cooperative Economy

In this article, Peter Joseph presents Integral—a cooperative economy designed to replace both markets and top-down state control with an architecture of open design, time-based...

Peter Joseph

Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy

"My dad was an abusive alcoholic, or whatever. He'd go to the bar, come home drunk, find out I'd f-cked up at school, and he'd choke me out."

Panic Volkushka

10 Rules of Resistance for #ICEOut

Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.

Rivera Sun

The Two Reflexes That Are Breaking the Left

Values keep movements honest, while a material approach gets results, and there’s a time and place for both.

Mehran Khalili

The Crisis Is Real, but the Story Is Wrong: What Scott Galloway Misses About Men, Power, and Society

Galloway describes real symptoms facing young men, but his analysis leaves the political economy that produced those symptoms out of view. To understand the crisis, we have to step...

Tim Hjersted

Understanding Patriarchy

Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. Yet most men do not use the word “patriarchy” in everyday life. Most men...

bell hooks

Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It

There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub...

George Monbiot

The Demoralized Mind

Western consumer culture is creating a psycho-spiritual crisis that leaves us disoriented and bereft of purpose. How can we treat our sick culture and make ourselves well?

John Schumaker

Liberation Theory: a Working Framework (1988)

No one is naturally or genetically oppressive; no human being is born as an oppressor. No one is naturally or genetically destined to be oppressed; no one is born to be oppressed.

Ricky Sherover-Marcuse

Everything Explained With One Simple Analogy

Musician and poet Joshua Idehen took to Twitter and helped us all make sense of the many terms by our society using analogies based around your mum washing your clothes. Genius.

Joshua Idehen

Putting a Stop To The Cowardly Democratic Party

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

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)

Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling.

David Cain

Why Aren't the Largest U.S. Labor Unions Calling a General Strike Against ICE?

As Minneapolis leads a heroic fightback against ICE, our national unions must follow their example by organizing toward a general strike.

Mike Pappas, Daniel Nath

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

No issue may be more contentious or more misunderstood than the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Hatred, fear, religion, politics, propaganda, media misinformation, and decades of...

Tim Hjersted

How to Start a Revolution in 2026

Ordinary people can run society — but only if we build the structures to let them.

Roger Hallam

Four Kinds of Dystopia

The twentieth century saw four basic visions of hell on earth, or dystopia. These were:

Darren Allen

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Have you ever encountered a baby whose gender is unknown to you?

Steve Bearman

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

The world today is in crisis. Everybody knows that. But what is driving this crisis? It's a story, a story that is destroying the world. It's a story about our relationship to the world...

Tim Hjersted

How Norway Avoided Becoming a Fascist State

Instead of falling to the Nazi party, Norway broke through to a social democracy. Their history shows us polarization is nothing to despair over.

George Lakey

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

And 6 that show how people are responding.

Tim Hjersted

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons

Have I mentioned how important I think Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael is? I reread it recently for the first time in a while, and was again impressed with how many important...

Tom Murphy

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

While many of us work to create a better world, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and...

George Lakey

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

US and EU Sanctions Have Killed 38 Million Since 1970

Far from a peaceful tool, these measures weaponise hunger and deprivation to enforce Western dominance.

Jason Hickel, Dylan Sullivan, Omer Tayyab

Skepticism Is Healthy, but Planet of the Humans Is Toxic

It can be refreshing to watch a true believer taking a deeper look at their own sacred cows. But in his rush to be open-minded about his long-cherished environmental beliefs, Jeff Gibbs...

Timmon Wallis

John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip

This is easily the best comic strip ever made.

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use to Change The World

Hungry for change? These documentaries light the way by showing examples of people fighting against the status quo, creating alternatives and living a more beautiful world into being.

Tim Hjersted

Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class

"Ideological hegemony is the process by which the exploited come to view the world through a conceptual framework provided to them by their exploiters." - Kevin A. Carson

Tim Hjersted

Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival...

Russell Means

10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class

We all know male revolutionaries like Che Guevara, but history often tends to gloss over the contributions of female revolutionaries that have sacrificed their time, efforts, and lives...

Kathleen Harris

Our Greatest Enemy Isn't Evil. It's Apathy.

The first battle is the battle of the spirit.

Tim Hjersted

The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living

Wisdom for aspiring leaders and change-makers of every kind

Stephen Mitchell

The Machinery of Terror

The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.

Chris Hedges

How "Enemy Images" Are Used to Manufacture Consent for Elite Agendas

Rising political extremism threatens to engulf us in a renewed wave of enemy images — immigrants painted as invaders, Muslims labeled as terrorists, and opponents branded as vermin...

Tim Hjersted

Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned

American biotechnology has turned Argentina into the world’s third-largest soybean producer, but the chemicals powering the boom aren’t confined to soy and cotton and corn fields. They...

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

This is the crash-course in 'what the hell is going on here' that we surely all wish we got from our education growing up but probably never did.

Films For Action

Why People Hate Socialism—and What It Actually Is

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.

Tim Hjersted

Survival Of The Nicest? A Theory Of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive

A century ago, industrialists like Andrew Carnegie believed that Darwin’s theories justified an economy of vicious competition and inequality. They left us with an ideological legacy...

Eric Michael Johnson

How We Got Here: 17 Documentaries That Explain Why the Mass Media Is the Crisis

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...

Films For Action

Humans Are Not a Virus - the Virus Is a Cultural Ideology

This bears repeating: Humans are not inherently toxic, sinfl or destructive. Humanity is not a cancer.

Tim Hjersted

What Is Libertarian Socialism?

Libertarian socialism is a political tradition that argues real freedom requires both personal liberty and democratic control over the economic institutions that shape our lives.

Tim Hjersted

My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons

We’re awkwardly caught between being too intelligent to work as well as turtles and mushrooms, but not intelligent enough to be like angels or gods. The flaw, then, is intelligence...

Tom Murphy

5 Reasons to Build a Network of Small Groups, Rather Than a Mass Movement of Individuals

We’re currently touring through the US, meeting with activists: from urban neighbourhood organisers, to black bloc anarchists, back-to-the-land communalists, and progressive...

Richard D. Bartlett

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