Tag: Social Movements
On Larry Kramer
Gus Breslauer reflects on Larry Kramer’s complicated legacy.
Class Organization and Rupture on the Terrain of Housing
Justin Gilmore, an organizer with the Oakland-based Tenant and Neighborhood Councils (TANC), argues for a focus on base-building instead of service and advocacy.
A COVID-19 Survival Guide
Kathleen Brown and Robin Zheng explain how socialists are fighting for life over profits in Southeastern Michigan.
The Global Supply Chain
The vulnerability of the global supply chain has been thrown into sharp relief amid the global pandemic. But earlier this year that vulnerability was also exposed by indigenous protests and solidarity actions across Canada. John Clarke, a longstanding anti-poverty activist in Toronto, draws some strategic lessons.
Cross-Border Feminist Manifesto
An international feminist manifesto about the pandemic, global crisis, and the need for continued struggle.
Transit Workers’ Struggle in a Pandemic
A transit worker writes on the demand for PPE’s broader political potential.
Historical Lessons of the Syrian Revolution
Joseph Daher writes on the betrayal of the Syrian left.
¡Fuera Piñera!
Jeffery R. Webber analyzes the 2019–20 round of social struggles in Chile. Toward the eradication of all traces of the Pinochet years! Fuera Piñera!
What Is Holding Back the Formation of a Global Prison Abolitionist Movement to Fight COVID-19 and Capitalism?
Frieda Afary and Lara Al-Kateb argue that he COVID-19 pandemic has given new urgency to the need to abolish prisons, refugee camps and the inhuman capitalist carceral system.
A Left Case for Hong Kong Self-Determination
Promise Li argues that, though the left has been sidelined in the Hong Kong protests, our role should neither be simply tailing the demands nor opposing them.