by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 01 September 2025 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/social-strikes-vs-maga-tyranny/   Listen to the audio version >> What if MAGA rule so dismantles the institutions of representative democracy that normal institutional processes are insufficient to overcome tyranny? Around the world, general strikes, “people power” uprisings, and other… 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-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 »