Blue Wave or Red Tide? Highlights for Nov 5th
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
Photocredit: Sophie J. Brown, Creative Commons, 2017. On September 12, 2015, Jeremy Corbyn was elected the leader of the Labour
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The Remarkable Rise of Jeremy Corbyn
Taking back the British Labour Party.
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Is There a Deep State, and If So What Is It?
When paranoia carries the right of truth.
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Is Now the Time to Break with the Democrats?: A Debate
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
What would it take to find common ground?
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Feeling the Bern: An Analysis of the Sanders Phenomenon
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…
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The Greek Inquisition: International Finance, Syriza, and the Greek Labor Movement
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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Marxism and Consumer Culture
Our obsession with the question of what sort of consciousness attaches itself most readily to the culture of consumption has paradoxically blinded us to the ways in which the ideal type of the American consumer has achieved a new level of uncontested sovereignty in the political rhetoric of our market culture.
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Green Capitalism Won’t Work
For the last 20 years, unions in the U.S. and internationally have generally accepted the dominant discourse on climate policy, one that is grounded in assumptions that private markets will lead the “green transition,” reduce emissions, and stabilize the climate over the longer term. Indeed, unions began attending the climate negotiations convened by the UN in the early 1990s, a time when the “triumph of the market” went unchallenged and the climate debate was awash with neoliberal ideas. Unions therefore focused on articulating the need for “Just Transition” policies.
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