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Climate Change as Class War: A Book Review
“Speaking theoretically, a strike in the electricity sector would effectively shut down society, creating the effect of a general strike, given that economic activity is impossible without...
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Ending the Beginning?: ‘The End We Start From’ Brings the Climate Fightback...
The scene begins with a heavily pregnant woman (Jodie Comer, Killing Eve) readying herself for a bath. But the scene is filmed from a very different angle: from within the tub. As it fills up, the...
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‘It’s Not the End of the World’ Book Assumptions & Omissions Spark Debate
Episode Highlights: The multiple crises the planet faces have solutions, says data scientist and head of research at Our World in Data, Hannah Ritchie. How to implement them remains a larger question...
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The Only Solution to “Wealth Supremacy” Is a Democratic Economy
The extraction of wealth is a pathology of late capitalism and is defined by the cultural and political processes by which the rich establish themselves as the dominant class. Social theorist and...
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How Can Workers Organize Against Capital Today?
John Womack’s labor strategy is about workers finding the capacity to “wound capital to make it yield anything.” But the massive challenge in today’s deindustrialized economy is locating where that...
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A Response to Hannah Ritchie: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love...
This piece is not going to be my usual point-by-point debunking. First, I’ve been doing plenty of that already (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13) and there is nothing special in Hannah...
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Understanding the Doppelganger Gang
I didn’t actually think the author of The Shock Doctrine could write a less than wonderful book but I really wasn’t interested in a book about people confusing her (Naomi Klein) with Naomi Wolf, or any...
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Must We Limit the Wealthy’s Wealth?
If the late, great egalitarian U.S. Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis were looking down on us today and chanced upon a copy of the gripping new book from the egalitarian European philosopher Ingrid...
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Would Frantz Fanon Have Supported the Oct. 7 Massacre? His Biographer Isn’t...
On the morning of October 7, as images of the torn fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel proliferated on social media, so too did quotations by Frantz Fanon. The writings of this Martinique-born...
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“Io Capitano”: Oscar-Nominated Film Dramatizes Perilous Migrant Journey from...
The new Oscar-nominated film Io Capitano follows young Senegalese migrants on their journey from West Africa to Europe. “We wanted to … give visual form to a part of the journey that we don’t see,”...
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The Man Who Changed Colors
Dashiell Hammett, the key writer in the twentieth-century detective novel both in print and in screen adaptations of his work, had it right. “The Butler Did It,” the answer to the mystery in a...
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Shadows of Coloniality
For most Malawians, encounters with the history of the country have often been a recycled tale centered on the legacy of Dr Kamuzu Banda, the founding father. Notwithstanding, Muti Phoya is one of the...
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Forced Migration and Detention Are the Real Immigration Crisis
Review of Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System by Bill Ong Hing (Beacon Press, 2023) A photograph by Brandon Bell, distributed by CNN, shows fifteen beefy men in...
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E. P. Thompson at 100
On the 3rd of February 2024, the late E. P. Thompson who was the seminal intellectual and historian on social struggle would have turned 100 years old. For decades, his insightful and illuminating work...
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The AFL-CIO Can be Reformed
Changing the leadership, structure, or functioning of any U.S. labor organization is no easy task. Activists and experts have long argued about whether dysfunctional unions are best reformed from the...
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Portraits of Widening Wealth Divide: On New Work by Matthew Desmond, Robert...
The American sense of a rigged or broken economic system has been erupting across the political spectrum. Encampments that occupied Wall Street shouted “Banks got bailed out! We got sold out!” A few...
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Seven Strategies to Change the World
David Swanson and Stephanie Luce discuss a new book called PRACTICAL RADICALS: SEVEN STRATEGIES TO CHANGE THE WORLD by Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce.
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Practical Radical: Seven Strategies to Change the World, A Book Review
“Legendary organizer Bayard Rustin, a consummate practical radical, criticized two other dominant ways of approaching social change: ‘My quarrel with the ‘no-win’ tendency in the civil rights movement...
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Americanizing France: the Marshall Plan, Reconsidered
Reflections inspired by a new book by Annie Lacroix-Riz, Les origines du plan Marshall: Le mythe de “l’aide” américaine, Armand Colin, Malakoff, 2023. Last summer, motoring from Paris to Nice through...
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W.E.B. Du Bois’ Study ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ at 125 Still Explains Roots of...
W.E.B. Du Bois is widely known for his civil rights activism, but many sociologists argue that he has yet to receive due recognition as the founding father of American sociology. His groundbreaking...
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