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The Activist’s Antidote: A Conversation about Depression, Hopelessness, and Burnout
We are social creatures – we like to be heard. Yet, an enduring tragedy of modern society remains that there are things more often left unsaid, on the rare occasion … Keep reading »
Participatory Economics: What, Why, How
There may be one thing in the world that most of humanity agrees on. When considering the state of present-day institutions of economy, polity, community, and kinship relations, people broadly … Keep reading »
Parliamentary Elections in France 2022
Setback for Macron in ‘Third Round’ of French Elections Dave Kellaway Gérald Darmanin, the French interior minister, the same politician who blamed the Liverpool fans for the debacle of the Champions … Keep reading »
Why Peace and Disarmament Are at the Heart of Nonalignment
As our world spirals toward the catastrophe of nuclear war, there has never been a greater need for a new global balancing, a rejection of great power war, exploitation, and … Keep reading »
The Eighteen Percent Tory Majority: What Now for Education in Ontario?
There’s something happening here But what it is ain’t exactly clear. – “For What It’s Worth” There’s something happening here. But it’s not Buffalo Springfield singing the song and it’s … Keep reading »
Classes and Politics: Common Sense in the Form of Theory
A review of The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn by Vivek Chibber. Harvard University Press, 2022. 224 pp. In the politically contested disciplines – the humanities and … Keep reading »
Farming and Food Struggles in Palestine
Palestinians are organizing CSA programs and small farms to become food sovereign and protect their culture against colonialism. Keep reading »
Trade Union Activists Arrested in Iran: Teachers and Bus Workers Singled Out
Since May Day 2022, a number of trade union activists, especially related to the teachers’ unions and the bus workers’ union, have been arrested in Iran, and are being interrogated … Keep reading »
Precarity and Green Unionism
In a real sense, under capitalism, all workers are precarious, meaning that they can be downsized, replaced, deskilled, outsourced, and so on. It’s simply a matter of degree. The latest … Keep reading »
We Have a Problem: Live with our eyes open without allowing ourselves to be defeated
It is July 20, 1969. The Apollo 11 manned space mission lands on our Moon, and a few hours later, Neil Armstrong takes his first steps on the lunar surface, … Keep reading »
India Has a Key Role to Play in a Possible New World Order
In the first half of April 2022, India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar made some revealing remarks at a press conference in Washington, D.C. He was standing beside US Secretary … Keep reading »
How Unions Are Backing BDS
Major unions and labor federations in Oregon recently passed unprecedented resolutions calling for divestment from an Israeli company over its human rights abuses. In March, both the American Federation of … Keep reading »