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While we need a massive “big tent” resistance against this horrendous man and moment, we also need a sustained and independent mass movement against America’s bipartisan wars, its...
Christopher D. Cook
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ESSAYS FROM THE HEART #2: SEEING BEAUTIFUL. A deeply personal and reflective cross-cultural journey unpacking the quiet yet powerful forces shaping women’s relationship with beauty...
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No Kings is historically good at mobilizing. Radicals and revolutionaries need to be historically good at compatibly organizing.
Michael Albert
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Jeffrey Epstein was a horrifying but oddly “talented” specimen of humanity. He had some combination of “qualities” that facilitated his assembling an
Michael Albert
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Why do people spend so much time analyzing and documenting the seemingly never-ending horrors taking place throughout the world at the hands of Trump & Co, but not nearly as much time...
Vincent Emanuele
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Why was Noam Chomsky - the scourge of the american elite - BFFs with Jeffrey Epstein, the personification of the worst aspects of that elite?
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The book V for Vendetta posits a battle for the soul of the country between Anarchism and Fascism, freedom and oppression. But what if revolution doesn't happen the way we think it does?
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Decoding the politics and ideas of one of the year's biggest movies.
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My fellow tenants and I were able to win rent relief and repairs in our building. Maybe you can, too.
Cynthia Barlow
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We need movements that can hold complexity, sustain relationships, keep people in the struggle and invite more in, not chew them up and spit them out. Radical consciousness is not...
Millie Boella
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Mandatory conscription makes war easier, not harder.
Ron Jacobs
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This statement will be seen by some merely as an act of loyalty. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have grappled, struggled deeply, over this situation, while seeking to remain...
Bev Stohl
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Throughout history, those in power have relied on a familiar tactic: divide people against one another and often against their own best interests so they don’t look upward. Whether along...
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Rasmus Hästbacka of the syndicalist union SAC highlights leading ideas of syndicalism and their usefulness in contemporary class struggle.
Rasmus Hästbacka
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In this DIRECT ACTION 101 episode, I talk through lessons that can help any organizer do better work in their community. Stay tuned for more in this series in 2026.
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Cut the military budget in half. Bloated war spending remains a sacred cow for far too many.
Eric Blanc
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Global South unites against US-Israeli war on Iran, condemning imperialist aggression. Innocent lives lost, families displaced. When will the cycle of violence end? Join the fight for...
Brett Wilkins
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“There is a time when silence is a lie, when silence is complicity, and when silence betrays our troops, our country, and ourselves. We owe it to our troops, as well as to other...
Norman Solomon
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Parenti stands out as uniquely courageous and unapologetic in directly confronting capitalism, US imperialism, and the manifold corruptions and inequities of society’s powerful.
Christopher D. Cook
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In US-blockaded Cuba, ingenious mechanics and inventors revive old machines to survive during a time of scarcity.
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As federal immigration agents descended on Minneapolis last month, residents deployed mutual aid to protect their neighbors. From 3D-printed whistles and eye wash attachments that flush...
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As inequality gets worse and worse, hostility for elites is at all time highs, and huge majorities of voters want higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy to pay for social programs. All the...
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With millions of Americans’ resistance still limited to consumer choices plus attending an occasional protest, we’re leaving a lot of potential people power on the table. If even a...
Eric Blanc
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Swedish social democracy produced one of the most humane societies in history. That wouldn’t have happened without a militant labor movement and a working-class political party.
Nick French
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A commons world is decentralised, stable and unified, not statist, growth-obsessed and 'left’. I’d like to persuade the left away from statist ‘solutions’, and yes, to recruit the...
Dave Darby
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With little hope of the genocide in Gaza subsiding, dock workers in major Italian port cities have organized strikes and large demonstrations to halt arms shipments to Israel. These...
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As the fight against the administration's anti-immigrant offensive continues, here are four lessons we can draw from the experience.
Sou Mi
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These policies are fully within the new mayor's power and would visibly improve daily life in New York without waiting on Albany.
TheLastFarm
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Eight years ago, the Ecosystem Restoration Communities (ERC) movement began with a simple but powerful belief: that everyday people everywhere could restore the land beneath their feet...
Ecosystem Restoration Communities Staff
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“Revolution is not a paradise on earth. It is a constant process of change, with obstacles and shortcomings,” Felix Weber, a member of the Internationalist Commune in Rojava, told me...
Shane Burley
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An addendum to "An Ideal Blueprint: The Original Black Panther Party Model and Why It Should be Duplicated" by Colin Jenkins (2014), posted by Films For Action
United Panther Party – U.S.
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We can fight child sexual abuse using a block-and-build strategy rooted in economic, racial, and gender justice.
Chanelle Gallant, Shannon Perez-Darby
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58 min
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I've talked about it here and there for years, but this is my actual attempt to talk, definitively, about Tankies.
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When an occupying authority appears to outman and outgun all resistance, what methods might one employ to resist such an “alien” invasion?
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The left has absorbed right-wing frameworks that undermine our efforts, often making our spaces inaccessible and unwelcoming to new people, writes Chris Crass. Liberation culture...
Chris Crass
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These overlooked offices control the budgets, databases, and cooperation that make the terror possible—or impossible.
Kelly Dietrich
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“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
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Why the popular anarchist critique gets strategic resistance backwards—and what actually threatens power
Tim Hjersted
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83 min
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In Direct Action 101: Episode 9, we break down the basics of security culture—a set of essential practices that help activists, organizers, and communities stay safe while resisting...
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Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.
Jackie Summers
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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
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How to stay alive when the fight arrives at your door.
Jackie Summers
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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
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Nepal has emerged as the blueprint for Gen Z activism worldwide. While covering youth movements, AJ+’s Anna Kook noticed that from Madagascar to Indonesia, organizers are looking to...
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A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all
Eric Blanc
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Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.
Rivera Sun
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Values keep movements honest, while a material approach gets results, and there’s a time and place for both.
Mehran Khalili
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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
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Despite the specious swapping out of fascist ICE leaders seeking to quell public fury, the gutted, steadfast denizens of Minneapolis continue to show up in frigid weather to demand "ICE...
Abby Zimet
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“You Said You Wanted a Fight” is built around a simple idea: one of the most effective tools of power is making people forget how often collective struggle and solidarity have already...
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Reel by Black Power Manifestation /A.A.N/ Bpppgh with Eric Garland
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Power anywhere where there’s people. Power anywhere where there’s people. Let me give you an example of teaching people. Basically, the way they learn is observation and participation...
Fred Hampton
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The first battle is the battle of the spirit.
Tim Hjersted
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This call is very much in the history of how general strikes have emerged in this country since the mid 19th century.
Eugene Puryear
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Dear American Citizens,
Grans-United
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Firearms may feel like instruments of resistance, but they do not create the collective capacity required to confront either state or corporate power. Organized labor—strikes, boycotts...
Rachel Hoopsick
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The problem wasn't the method of resistance. It was the near-total absence of sustained, mass-scale resistance of any kind.
Tim Hjersted
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Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
Sarah van Gelder
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This is me thinking out loud, carefully and practically, about how real political change actually happens — based on history, organising in Brixton since I was imprisoned, and a lot of...
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Here are 5 calls to action you can take now to help protect our neighbors.
Qasim Rashid
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The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down —...
Chris Hedges
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In moments like this, fear pushes people toward anger, and anger pushes nations toward mistakes they can’t undo.
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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
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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
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From South Korea to Serbia to the Philippines, people power uprisings have toppled authoritarian regimes — armed with nothing but conviction and solidarity.
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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
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This video discusses how to approach life's inevitable difficulties through the lens of Stoicism, emphasizing that pain and suffering are unavoidable and have always been a part of the...
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Trump thought Minnesotans would be pushovers and great “performance fodder” as televised victims of his version of macho violence. He was wrong.
Mary Papenfuss
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My friends, stay informed. Stay engaged. Be aware. Don’t fall into apathy. But please, don’t let the bad news kill you. We need you here to help twist the plot.
John Pavlovitz
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Martin Luther King Jr. was more than a civil rights leader. He was a Christian witness who understood the true cost of following Christ in a world ruled by injustice, violence, and...
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In this episode, Peter Joseph addresses the release of the Integral White Paper, as the core focus, and critiques the pervasive vagueness of alternative economic discourse, arguing that...
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An observational documentary following total liberation activism in Denmark, one of the world’s best democracies, where a group of activists is met with an unfiltered police response.
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The Democratic establishment shuns the progressive populism that’s vital to effectively counter bogus right-wing populism. And so, the fight to defeat the fascistic GOP and the fight to...
Norman Solomon
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Once, unions shook nations and promised a better future for working people. Some even sought radical social transformation. But today, their once booming voice has felt more like a...
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Nina Turner's insight cuts to a crucial distinction in movement work: there's a difference between trying to win arguments and trying to build power. But I'd take it further—the deepest...
Tim Hjersted
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The January 3 attack on Venezuela culminated in the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. The LTS in Venezuela, together with the CRP-CI internationally...
Milton D'León
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We can abolish ICE by the end of January. We can shut down any more talk of invading other countries. And we can force the immediate release of the Epstein files. By demanding congress...
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Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was...
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While U.S. imperialism escalates sanctions, military threats, and interventionist pressure, the Islamic Republic is brutally repressing popular resistance to preserve clerical rule. Only...
Left Voice
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We need a new model to fight ICE — including having local prosecutors indict its agents for murder, assault, and false arrests based on evidence.
Steven Donziger
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We need to build independent economic bases where we live.
Patrick Mazza
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The numerous attempts by activists in flotillas, to break the siege on Gaza, are a potent reminder that hope comes through acts of resistance and that we must never accept the status quo.
Chris Hedges
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Confronting the brutality of the ruling dictatorship and the designs of U.S. and Israeli imperialism are the dual tasks of the uprising, according to Tudeh.
C.J. Atkins
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This article presents 3 statements from Iranian workers’ organisations. As one group writes, "Long live the workers’ strikes! No to Zionism, no to monarchy, no to imperialism. Yes to...
Leftcom
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We taxpayers fund ICE, the Border Patrol, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s salary (and her two jets). Without congressional action by the end of January, funding for ICE...
Sarah Van Gelder
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Elections matter, but history shows they are not enough. Real democracy is built through organized civic power between elections.
Sharon Kyle
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Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to...
Amie Stager & Sarah Lazare
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It’s virtually impossible to predict what lies ahead for Iran and its people. But if President Donald Trump decides to take military action against Iran’s current regime, nothing good...
C.J. Polychroniou
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Most people agree we need to organize — but few talk concretely about how. This guide draws on a century of Swedish labor organizing to offer a practical framework for building real...
Rasmus Hästbacka
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Pundits and politicians mocked universal childcare as a socialist fantasy—now many of them are silent as it becomes a practical reality.
Qasim Rashid
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Ordinary people can run society — but only if we build the structures to let them.
Roger Hallam
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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
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Most Americans are taught a sanitized version of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The man with a dream. The peaceful marcher. The national holiday.
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ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
Eric Blanc, Claire Sandberg, and Wes McEnany
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Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/
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Support my independent journalism at Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/
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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. knew the political consequences of speaking out against the Vietnam War − and he did it anyway.
Hajar Yazdiha
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Labor can’t claim to be on the side of workers while remaining neutral on the question of imperialism.
James Dennis Hoff
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The CPR-FI categorically and vehemently condemns the military attack perpetrated by the United States against Venezuela. This is direct, deliberate, and criminal imperialist aggression...
Current for Permanent Revolution - Fourth International (CPR-FI)
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Zohran Mamdani is now mayor of New York City, and the Left’s old ways of relating to elected officials won’t cut it. We need a “mass governance” approach.
Sumathy Kumar and Gianpaolo Baiocchi
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