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The Big Other: A Theory of Surveillance Capitalism

January 2019January 2019 Paula Finn capitalism, collective action, democracy, digital technologies, internet, power, social inequality, surveillance, surveillance capitalism, twenty-first-century society

Highlights for Jan 22nd Original insights into the workings of an ever-evolving capitalism are rare occurrences. We are proud to

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Surveillance Capitalism and the Challenge of Collective Action

January 2019January 2019 Shoshana Zuboff capitalism, collective action, democracy, digital technologies, internet, power, social inequality, surveillance, surveillance capitalism, twenty-first-century society

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Blue Wave or Red Tide? Highlights for Nov 5th

November 2018November 2018 Paula Finn capitalism, democracy, Democratic Party, Democrats, elections, electoral politics

With perhaps the most important midterm elections in a generation happening tomorrow, we offer you: an invitation to join us

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Corbyn’s Class Act Is a Climate Game Changer

October 2018February 2019 Sean Sweeney capitalism, climate change, corporations, democracy, green economy

On September 12, 2015, Jeremy Corbyn was elected the leader of the Labour Party in Britain. Supported by several key

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The Remarkable Rise of Jeremy Corbyn

August 2018February 2019 Hilary Wainwright Brexit, Corbyn, democracy, equality, trade unions, U.K. Labour Party

Taking back the British Labour Party.

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Is There a Deep State, and If So What Is It?

August 2018February 2019 Jacob Silverman democracy, Democratic Party, industry, military-industrial complex, neoliberalism, Republican Party

When paranoia carries the right of truth.

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Is Now the Time to Break with the Democrats?: A Debate

January 2018May 2018 J. Phillip Thompson and Adam Hilton democracy, Democratic Party, Labor, liberalism, neoliberalism, politics, race, Sanders Campaign, Winter 2018

What should be the strategy on the left at this time?

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Rethinking the Problem of Alliance: Organized Labor and Black Political Life

August 2017June 2018 Brandon M. Terry and Jason Lee African Americans, Black Lives Matter, community organizations, deindustrialization, democracy, equality, Fall 2017, Labor, neoliberalism, politics, race, racism, working class

What would it take to find common ground?

Feeling the Bern: An Analysis of the Sanders Phenomenon

February 2016August 2017 Thomas Gallagher capitalism, democracy, Democratic Party, elections, politics, Spring 2016

When Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy for president, his assertion that he was in this to win seemed like maybe the kind of statement a candidate feels he has to make. If you followed this sort of thing, a more modest and reasonable hope seemed to be that he’d at least fare better than Dennis Kucinich, the last candidate of the left to attempt a significant candidacy, in 2004 and 2008. As a U.S. Senator, self-identified socialist, and the longest serving independent member of Congress, Sanders hopefully could…

The Greek Inquisition: International Finance, Syriza, and the Greek Labor Movement

October 2015December 2015 Nick Toloudis austerity, debt, democracy, elections, Fall 2015, Greece, Syriza, trade unions

Why has the new Greek government failed to accomplish so much of what it had promised? And where does that leave the Greek labor movement? The government’s and the labor movement’s problems stem from the same fact, which has endured since the February 2012 signing of the second bailout agreement: Greece is no longer a sovereign nation state.

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