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 »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 15 July 2025 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/movement-based-opposition-a-successful-american-example/ Listen to the audio version >> Can an alliance of social movements defeat racist legislation and authoritarian takeover? What happened a decade ago in North Carolina provides inspiration for what we need to do in the US… Read More »