Jeremy Brecher

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Alternatives

In all my work I seek exploration of and dialogue about alternatives. While I do not generally try to imagine or project a utopia which then guides action, I do try to find alternative pathways within the past and present that could plausibly lead to a different and better future. For some examples, see:

 

Strike! original 1972 edition, Chapter 9, “From Mass Strike to New Society.”

 

“Socialism is What You Make It” in Steve Rosskamm Shalom, ed., Socialist Visions (Boston, South End Press, 1983).

 

Review of The Living Building

 

Jeremy Brecher and Tim Costello, “Labor and Community: Converging Programs” and “Labor-Community Coalitions and the Restructuring of Power,” in Building Bridges.

 

Common Sense for Hard Times, especially Part 4 “Action.”

 

Global Village or Global Pillage, Chapter 9, “Reversing the Race to the Bottom.”

 

Globalization from Below Chapter 6 “A World to Win – for What?” and Chapter 7, “Draft of a Global Program.”

 

Save the Humans?

 

Global Sustainable Development resolution

ABOUT JEREMY BRECHER

11You and I may not know each other, but I suspect there are some problems that we share -- problems like climate change, war, and injustice. For half a century I have been participating in and writing about social movements that address those problems. The purpose of this website is to share what I've learned. I hope it provides something of use to you in addressing our common problems.

For the record, I am the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements. I have written and/or produced more than twenty video documentaries. I have participated in movements for nuclear disarmament, civil rights, peace in Vietnam, international labor rights, global economic justice, accountability for war crimes, climate protection, and many others.

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Common Preservation

  Human Survival Movement

Climate Protection

  Climate and Labor

  Climate Insurgency

  Against Doom

  Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs

Labor History

  Strike!

  Common Sense for Hard Times

STRIKE! Commentaries on Solidarity and Survival

  • The Biden Climate Plan: Part 2: An Arena of Struggle
  • The Biden Climate Plan: Part 1: What It Proposes
  • People Power in the Coronavirus Depression
  • How Workers Can Help Defeat a Trump Coup
  • Social Self-Defense Against the Impending Trump Coup
  • Workers vs. the Coronavirus Depression
  • Striking in the Coronavirus Depression

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