by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 03 September 2025 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/social-strikes-in-american-history/ Listen to the audio version >>What can we do if MAGA authoritarianism so undermines democratic governance that it cannot be successfully challenged by conventional means? In many other countries, tyrannies have been overthrown by nonviolent mass popular uprisings…. Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 03 September 2025 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/social-strike-for-social-self-defense-the-last-recourse-against-tyranny/   Listen to the audio version >>  In many countries around the world, mass “people power” revolts have blocked authoritarian takeovers and eliminated dictatorial regimes. This commentary presents four cases from around the world that illustrate the… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 14 August 2025 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/make-the-fossil-fuel-powers-stranded-assets/ Listen to the audio version >> As Donald Trump is trying to stamp out everything that might power the world without fossil fuels, a “Greentech” revolution is making renewable energy and everything designed to run on it… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 01 August 2025 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/how-a-movement-based-opposition-defeated-the-first-trump-coup/ Listen to the audio version >>   A little-known alliance of social movements played a key role in blocking Trump’s attempted 2020 coup. As a movement-based opposition to Trump and MAGA emerges today, it can provide inspiration… Read More »