by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 07 September 2024 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/will-polycentrism-solve-the-polycrisis/ Listen to the audio version >> Unilateral US dominance is increasingly challenged in the era of overlapping crises that is now often being referred to as “the polycrisis.” This has led many countries to advocate for what… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 21 November 2011 on Aliran, accessible here: https://m.aliran.com/web-specials/a-night-in-the-park-occupy-wall-street-observed I spent 12-13 October at the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park. I had already written in a piece for The Nation about the historical background of such movements, but I wanted to get the feel of the occupation on the… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 15 August 2024 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/us-vs-china/ Listen to the audio version >> In barely a decade the US and China have moved from tacit alignment to existential rivalry. Impacted by and impacting the other dynamics of the convergence of crises that compose the… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 02 August 2024 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/the-gaza-war-the-glory-of-the-polycrisis/ Listen to the audio version This commentary, the fifth in a series on “The Polycrisis and the Global Green New Deal,” takes the war that began in Gaza and is spreading throughout the Middle East as a… Read More »