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• Charles-Antoine Bachand

  Charles-Antoine Bachand is professor at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO) where he teaches the foundations of education. His research work focuses on the foundations and practices of citizenship education with an emancipatory aim. He is also active in several climate justice activist groups. View all posts »

• David Bacon

  David Bacon is a California-based writer and documentary photographer. A former union organizer, today he documents labour, the global economy, war and migration, and the struggle for human rights. He blogs at The Reality Check and tweets at @photos4justice. View all posts »

• Araz Bağban

  Araz Bağban is an Iranian revolutionary activist. View all posts »

• Walter Baier

  Walter Baier, an economist in Vienna, was National Chairman of the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) from 1994 to 2006. He was an editor of the Austrian weekly Volksstimme and from 2007 has been Coordinator of the network transform! europe. View all posts »

• Kyle Bailey

  Kyle Bailey is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at York University in Toronto. His latest article is “Stakeholder Capitalism Against Democracy: Relegitimising Global Neoliberalism” in the Journal of Australian Political Economy. View all posts »

• Irang Bak

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• Abbie Bakan

  Abbie Bakan is Professor of Political Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. She is a member of the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid. View all posts »

• Jerko Bakotin

  Jerko Bakotin is a freelance journalist and author, currently based in Zagreb, Croatia. View all posts »

• Étienne Balibar

  Étienne Balibar is a French philosopher and the most celebrated student of Louis Althusser. He is also one of the leading exponents of French Marxist philosophy and the author of Identity and Difference and The Philosophy of Marx. View all posts »

• Erol Balkan

  Erol Balkan is a Professor of Economics at Hamilton University. View all posts »

• Morna Ballantyne

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• Himani Bannerji

  Himani Bannerji is a Bengali-Canadian writer, sociologist, and philosopher from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. She recently retired from teaching at York University, Toronto. Her works include Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Racism (2000), and Demography and Democracy: Essays on Nationalism, Gender and Ideology (2011). View all posts »

• Fletcher Baragar

  Fletcher Baragar teaches in the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba. View all posts »

• Mustafa Barghouti

  Dr. Mustafa Barghouti is general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative (Mubadara), a physician, and an activist. Follow his tweets at @mustafabarghoti. View all posts »

• Michael Barker

  Michael Barker has been writing for alternative media outlets since 2006, and at present is a regular contributor to Swans Commentary. His work has been published by many media organizations, including Corporate Watch (UK), Countercurrents, CounterPunch, Green Left Weekly, and Znet. He is a contributor to Corporate Watch's forthcoming book Managing Democracy, Managing Dissent: Capitalism, Democracy and the Organisation of Consent. He maintains a blog at michaeljamesbarker.wordpress.com. View all posts »

• Julia Barnett

  Julia Barnett is a member of CUPE, and a community activist. View all posts »

• Ramzy Baroud

  Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle. His latest book is The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story (Pluto Press, London, 2018). His website is ramzybaroud.net. View all posts »

• Andrés Barreda

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• Clyde W. Barrow

  Clyde W. Barrow is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of Toward a Critical Theoy of States: The Poulantzas-Miliband Debate After Globalization (SUNY Press, 2016) and his newest book is The Dangerous Class: The Concept of the Lumpenproletariat (University of Michigan Press, 2020). View all posts »

• Amy Bartholomew

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• Fikret Başkaya

  Fikret Başkaya is the chairman and lecturer at Özgür University. View all posts »

• Nnimmo Bassey

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• Ranjini Basu

  Ranjini Basu is an agricultural policy researcher with the India Office of the Focus on the Global South, a policy research organization based in Bangkok. View all posts »

• Rosemary Batt

  Rosemary Batt is the Alice Hanson Cook Professor of Women and Work, Cornell University ILR School. View all posts »

• Andy Battle

  Andy Battle is a writer, activist, and PhD student in New York City. His research focuses on the deindustrialization of the Northeastern United States. View all posts »

• Brad A. Bauerly

  Brad Bauerly has his Ph.D. from York University and is an instructor in Political Science at SUNY Plattsburgh. His book on agriculture and U.S. state building will be out this summer. View all posts »

• Chris Baugh

  Chris Baugh is active with the Socialist Party UK. View all posts »

• Christopher Baum

  Christopher Baum writes for Socialist Worker. View all posts »

• Connor Beaton

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• Pierre Beaudet

  Pierre Beaudet is active in international solidarity and social movements in Québec. He teaches international development at the University of Quebec Outaouais campus in Gatineau. He is founder of the Québec NGO Alternatives, and editor of Nouveaux cahiers du socialisme. View all posts »

• Geneviève Beaudet

  Geneviève Beaudet is an activist working on native rights issues. View all posts »

• Nick Bedell

  Nick Bedell is education director for TWU Local 100. View all posts »

• Pinar Bedirhanoglu

  Dr. Pinar Bedirhanoğlu is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. View all posts »

• Matthew Behrens

  Matthew Behrens is a freelance writer and social justice advocate who co-ordinates the Homes not Bombs non-violent direct action network. He has worked closely with the targets of Canadian and U.S. 'national security' profiling for many years. View all posts »

• Alejandro Álvarez Béjar

  Dr. Alejandro Álvarez Béjar is a professor of Economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). View all posts »

• Alejandro Bejarano

  Alejandro Bejarano is a Bolivian musician, documentarian, and social media manager. In 2016, he received the Medal of Honor for Cultural Merit of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia. View all posts »

• Walden Bello

  Walden Bello is professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton and senior research fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies of Kyoto University in Japan. He served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2009 to 2015. Follow his blog at www.waldenbello.org. View all posts »

• Joan Benach

  Joan Benach is a professor, researcher and public health specialist (Health Inequalities Research Group, Greds-Emconet, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF); Johns Hopkins-UPF Public Policy Center; GinTrans2 (Transdisciplinary Research Group on Socio-ecological Transitions, Madrid Autonomous University, UAM). Twitter @joan_benach View all posts »

• Maxime Benatouil

  Maxime Benatouil holds an MA in sociology and political science (European Studies) and is working for the transform! Akademia Network, co-facilitating the projects on Energy, Labour, and on European Social Movements. He is a Paris-based project facilitator at transform! europe. View all posts »

• Till Bender

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• Medea Benjamin

  Medea Benjamin is a prominent activist and writer. She is the co-founder of CODEPINK, an anti-war organization, and Global Exchange, an advocacy group for fair trade. She has also authored three books, most recently Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Follow her tweets at @medeabenjamin. View all posts »

• Hans Bennett

  Hans Bennett is an independent multi-media journalist and co-founder of Journalists for Mumia - www.abu-jamal-news.com. View all posts »

• Daniel Bensaïd

  Daniel Bensaïd is author of many books. Among them: Un monde à changer: mouvements et stratégies (2003) and Marx for Our Times (2002). His latest book Strategies of Resistance & ‘Who Are the Trotskyists?’. View all posts »

• Marlon Berg

  Marlon Berg is a writer for Basics News. View all posts »

• Mark Bergfeld

  Mark Bergfeld is a socialist activist. He is the author of “Portugal: Crisis and Resistance” and appears frequently on national and international television to give insight on protest movements in the UK and Europe. He is the Director of Property Services and UNICARE. His writings can be found at tinyletter.com/mdbergfeld, and tweets at @mdbergfeld. View all posts »

• Herut Berhane

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• Manuel Bertoldi

  Manuel Bertoldi is a leader at Front Patria Grande (Argentina) and Alba Movimientos. He is a coordinator of the International Peoples Assembly. View all posts »

• Daniel Bertossa

  Daniel Bertossa is Assistant General Secretary at Public Services International, a global union federation that represents public sector workers in about 170 countries and about 650 unions. Daniel leads the Public Services International economic policy work in trade, tax, debt, and the future of quality public services. View all posts »

• Olivier Besancenot

  Olivier Besancenot is a member of the executive committee of the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste (NPA) in France. View all posts »

• Jody Betzien

  Jody Betzien is a writer for Green Left weekly. View all posts »

• Sudha Bharadwaj

  Sudha Bharadwaj is a lawyer and a member of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha (Mazdoor Karkyakarta Committee). View all posts »

• Ruhi Bhasin

  Ruhi Bhasin is an assistant editor at the Independent Media Institute. Previously, she worked as an editor and a senior journalist at the Times of India and the Indian Express covering politics, legal matters, and social issues. She can be reached on Twitter @BhasinRuhi. View all posts »

• Tithi Bhattacharya

  Tithi Bhattacharya is a professor of South Asian History and the Director of Global Studies at Purdue University. She is the author of The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2005), editor of Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression (Pluto, forthcoming) and a long time activist for Palestinian justice. View all posts »

• Javier Biardeau

  Javier Biardeau is Professor of Sociology at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV). View all posts »

• Geoff Bickerton

  Geoff Bickerton is a member of CUPE 1979 and labour columnist for Canadian Dimension. View all posts »

• Erika Biddle

  Erika Biddle is a PhD Candidate, Communication and Culture, York University. Follow her at @erika_biddle. View all posts »

• Andreas Bieler

  Andreas Bieler is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Nottingham/UK and he maintains a blog at andreasbieler.blogspot.no. View all posts »

• Cyrus Bina

  Cyrus Bina is Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota (Morris Campus). He is also Fellow, Economists for Peace and Security and his latest book is A Prelude in the Foundation of Political Economy: Oil, War, and Global Polity (2013). View all posts »

• André Binette

  André Binette is a prominent constitutional lawyer in Quebec. View all posts »

• Pham Binh

  Pham Binh's articles have been published by Asia Times Online, Znet, Counterpunch, and The Indypendent. All of his writings on Occupy Wall Street and other topics can be found at www.planetanarchy.net. View all posts »

• Shellie Bird

  Shellie Bird is a trade union and childcare activist. View all posts »

• Alex Birnel

  Alex Birnel is advocacy manager at MOVE San Antonio. View all posts »

• Simon Black

  Simon Black is an Assistant Professor of Labour Studies at Brock University. Simon is lead organizer with Labour Against the Arms Trade, a grassroots coalition of peace and labour activists working to end Canada’s participation in the international arms trade. Follow his tweets at @_SimonBlack. View all posts »

• Ralph Blake

  Ralph Blake (aka TheLeftBanker) has occupied senior roles in finance for several years and maintains a blog at LeftBanker. View all posts »

• Grace Blakeley

  Grace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune and author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialization. View all posts »

• Eric Blanc

  Eric Blanc is an activist and historian based in Oakland, California. He is the author of Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics. Follow his tweets at @_ericblanc. View all posts »

• Dave Bleakney

  Dave Bleakney is the 2nd National Vice-President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. View all posts »

• Niko Block

  Niko Block is a Ph.D. student in political science at York University. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Jacobin, New Internationalist and Canadian Dimension. He blogs at CriticalUtopias.net and tweets @nikoblock. View all posts »

• Blockupy goes Athens

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• Paul Bocking

  Paul Bocking is a secondary school teacher, union activist, amateur filmmaker and community organizer in Toronto. He is completing his Master's degree in Work & Society at McMaster University. View all posts »

• Meghan Bodette

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• Steffen Böhm

  Steffen Böhm is Professor in Management and Sustainability, and Director, Essex Sustainability Institute, University of Essex. View all posts »

• Max Bohnel

  Max Bohnel is the U.S. foreign-correspondent for German-speaking public radio networks and progressive newspapers. View all posts »

• Sergio Bologna

  Sergio Bologna is a freelance consultant on transportation and logistics and writes for Il Manifesto. View all posts »

• Patrick Bond

  Patrick Bond is professor of sociology at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He is co-editor (with Ana Garcia) of BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique. View all posts »

• Marc Bonhomme

  Marc Bonhomme is a long-time socialist activist, economist and writer on the Quebec left. His writings can be found at marcbonhomme.com. View all posts »

• Rachael Boothroyd

  Rachael Boothroyd is based in Caracas and writes for Venezuelanalysis.com. View all posts »

• Atilio A. Boron

  Atilio Boron is an Argentine political scientist and sociologist. He has been a professor of political and social theory on the Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Buenos Aires since 1986. He is a senior researcher at CONICET (Argentina's National Council for Scientific and Technical Research). He blogs at AtilioBoron.com.ar, and tweets at @atilioboron. View all posts »

• Prasenjit Bose

  Prasenjit Bose is a Researcher in Economics, Political Activist and writes for Pragoti (a Sanskrit word meaning Progress). View all posts »

• Paul Bowles

  Paul Bowles is a professor in economics and international studies at the University of Northern British Columbia. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book The Answer Is Still No. Voices of Pipeline Resistance. View all posts »

• Andy Bowman

  Andy Bowman is the Activision editor of Red Pepper. View all posts »

• Johanna Bozuwa

  Johanna Bozuwa is a research associate with The Next System Project at the Democracy Collaborative. Her work focuses on transitioning away from the extractive, fossil fuel economy and building toward resilient and equitable communities based on energy democracy. View all posts »

• Ulrich Brand

  Ulrich Brand is professor of international policy at Vienna University and co-editor of the political magazine Blätter. His forthcoming book with Verso is The Imperial Mode of Living (co-authored with Markus Wissen). View all posts »

• Jed Brandt

  Jed Brandt is the author of the JedBrandt.net blog. View all posts »

• Ashley Braun

  Ashley Braun is a Seattle-based freelance science and environmental journalist. She works as a deputy editor for DeSmogBlog.com and is a contributing science writer for Natural History magazine. View all posts »

• Jeremy Brecher

  Jeremy Brecher is an historian, author, and co-founder of the Labor Network for Sustainability. A new edition of his most recent book, Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival, is available at his website. View all posts »

• Matthew Brett

  Matthew Brett is an organizer based in Montreal. He blogs at matthewbrett.ca, follow him at @MattBrett_. View all posts »

• Michael Brie

  Michael Brie is a social philosopher at the Institute for Critical Social Analysis of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin. View all posts »

• Erin Brightwell

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• Britain Cuba Solidarity Campaign

  Cuba Solidarity Campaign is a British organization that campaigns against the inhumane and illegal blockade of Cuba, for an end to the US occupation of Cuban land at Guantanamo Bay, and to defend the Cuban people’s right to be free from foreign intervention. View all posts »

• Peter Brogan

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• James T. Brophy

  James T. Brophy holds a PhD in occupational and environmental health from the University of Stirling in Scotland. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at the University of Windsor and teaches environmental sociology at Athabasca University. View all posts »

• Jenny Brown

  Jenny Brown is a staff writer for Labor Notes. View all posts »

• Alleen Brown

  Alleen Brown is New York-based reporter, focused on environmental justice issues. Twitter: @AlleenBrown. View all posts »

• Marcia Brown

  Marcia Brown is a writing fellow at The American Prospect. View all posts »

• Dick Bryan

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• Eren Buğlalılar

  Eren Buğlalılar is a translator and a PhD student in Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science and his studies are focused on the history of socialist movement in Turkey. View all posts »

• Roger Burbach

  Roger Burbach is director of the Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA), based in Berkeley, California. He has written widely on Latin America and U.S. policy and is currently working on a book titled The New Fire in the Americas. For more information on CENSA's publications, projects, and activities, see www.globalalternatives.org. View all posts »

• Raul Burbano

  Raul Burbano is Executive Director of Common Frontiers. View all posts »

• Iliam Burbano

  Iliam Burbano is a member of CUPE International Solidarity Committee. View all posts »

• Steven Burdick

  Steven Burdick is an executive member of CUPE Local 4948, active in the library and municipal sectors of CUPE at the local, provincial and federal levels since 1990. View all posts »

• Yalcin Burkev

  Yalcin Burkev is editor of NotaBene publishing in Turkey. He is the co-editor of (in Turkish): Historical and Theoretical Dimensions of Struggles to Rights (2010); Real, Destructive and Creative: Struggles of Youth in Turkey and the World. View all posts »

• Rebecca Burns

  Rebecca Burns is an award-winning investigative reporter. She is a contributing editor at In These Times. Follow her on Twitter @rejburns. View all posts »

• Madelin Burt-D’Agnillo

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• Ronan Burtenshaw

  Ronan Burtenshaw is editor of Tribune Magazine. Follow him at @ronanburtenshaw. View all posts »

• David Bush

  David Bush is a Ph.D. student at York University, a labour organizer active with the Fight for $15 and editor at Rankandfile.ca. Follow his Tweets at @DBrabblerouser. View all posts »

• Beatrice Busi

  Beatrice Busi is an independent researcher and freelance journalist. View all posts »

• Simon Butler

  Simon Butler is a member of the Socialist Alliance of Australia and co-author of Too Many People. He writes for Green Left Weekly. View all posts »

• Aleksandr Buzgalin

  Aleksandr Buzgalin is Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Moscow Financial-Juridical University (MFYuA), and Chief-Editor of the journal Alternatives. View all posts »