Economic Damage From Climate Change Six Times Worse Than Thought
The economic damage wrought by climate change is six times worse than previously thought, with global heating set to shrink wealth at a rate consistent with the level of financial losses of a...
View ArticleHistory of Co-Op City
In 1909, at a library in Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood, Abraham Kazan, a twenty-year-old union clerk who had grown up on the countryside estate of a Russian general in what is now Ukraine, and who...
View ArticleIsrael’s Priority Is Killing Gazans, Not Freeing Hostages
The Biden administration is repeating the lie that Hamas is the only obstacle to peace in Gaza and the hostages returning home. “There would be a cease-fire tomorrow if Hamas would release the...
View ArticleCarrying on Kent State’s Legacy of Antiwar Organizing, Students Press for...
If you grew up in Ohio, one of the first things that comes to mind when you hear “Kent State” is the saying “Kent Read, Kent Write, Kent State.” If you grew up outside of Ohio, the first thing you...
View ArticlePalestine: a UN non-Member Observer State
On 10 May 2024, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Resolution A/RES/ES-10/23 in which it expressed “deep regret and concern that, on 18 April 2024, one negative vote by a permanent member of the...
View ArticleThe Drive for War
The collective shrug with which the Western media and political class noted the attempted assassination of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has been telling. Can you imagine the outrage and emotion...
View ArticleAlabama Mercedes Workers Lose First Union Election, Vow to Fight On
A no-holds-barred campaign by Mercedes management convinced a majority of workers at its Alabama factory complex to vote against forming a union. In addition to anti-union videos and mailings,...
View ArticleUS Undergrads Are Getting an Extracurricular Crash Course in Labor Organizing
When Grinnell College wanted to begin compensating community advisors (CA), who work to provide students living in residence halls with programming and support for personal and academic issues, on an...
View ArticleHow Union Reformers Passed the PRO Act in Vermont
If you’re a fan of unions, there’s been a lot to get excited about lately. Strikes and militancy are up, public support for labor is peaking, and the prospects for new organizing are better than...
View ArticlePalestine ’48: House Demolitions, Good Arabs And Resistance
Majd Nasrallah has worked in Palestinian cultural institutions and is a local community organizer with a degree in international law and human rights. He talks about criminal violence being the last...
View ArticleThe Dead End of Liberal American Zionism
In 2014, we wrote an article titled “The Blind Alley of J Street and Liberal American Zionism.” At the time, Benjamin Netanyahu was in his sixth continuous year as Israel’s prime minister, while...
View ArticleAuto Workers’ Loss at Mercedes-Benz Slows the UAW Organizing Drive, but Won’t...
Mercedes-Benz succeeded in defeating the United Auto Workers (UAW) in an election held in the company’s plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, but UAW President Shawn Fain sees the defeat as a temporary setback...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Assault on the Wages of American Workers
Although Donald Trump, as president, proclaimed in his 2020 State of the Union address that he had produced a “blue-collar boom” in workers’ wages, the reality was quite different. Using his control of...
View ArticleSpain’s Socialist Party Has Survived but Is Still in Danger
The Left, broadly defined, is in clear decline across Europe — while the Right, especially the far right, is thriving like it hasn’t done since 1945. Ahead of June’s European elections, the trend is...
View ArticleOn the ICC’s Announcement of Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and...
It had been widely anticipated that, to maintain any institutional respect, the International Criminal Court would have to indict some Israeli leaders, unavoidably including Prime Minister Netanyahu,...
View ArticleHow US Big Tech Supports Israel’s AI-Powered Genocide and Apartheid
Shortly after the October 7 attacks on Israel, Google CEO Sundar Pichai issued a statement on social media, extending sympathy to Israelis without mentioning the Palestinians. Other tech executives –...
View ArticleYet More Boondoggles: Extracting Carbon Dioxide from the Air, Mining Asteroids
The dictionary doesn’t quite do justice to the word “boondoggle” according to author Dmitri Orlov, best known for his book Reinventing Collapse. A contemporary boondoggle must not only be wasteful, it...
View ArticleBlack MAGA Is Still MAGA
Consider Donald Trump to be in a racial bind when it comes to election 2024. After all, he needs Black voters to at least defect from Joe Biden in swing states, if not actually vote for him. Yet, more...
View ArticleThe Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots
Cannabis can transform our materials economy and textiles industry, return carbon to the soil, provide sustainable housing material, nurture health and well-being and set us on a path to restorative...
View ArticleWorker Co-Ops Have a Role to Play in Socialist Strategy
Copenhagen, 1910. Here, at the beginnings of social democracy’s ascent in Europe, the Second International passed a resolution supporting cooperatives. While acknowledging that cooperation alone was...
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