by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 25 June 2025 on Foreign Policy in Focus, accessible here: https://fpif.org/make-the-fossil-fuel-powers-stranded-assets/ There is a specter haunting the fossil-fuel powers. As a recent article in The National Interest by Columbia University energy experts Tatiana Mitrova and Anne-Sophie Corbeau put it, What is emerging are two competing models of energy and influence—one anchored in the enduring… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 10 June 2025 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/the-movement-based-opposition-in-action/ Listen to the audio version >> The previous Strike! Commentary described how the burgeoning movement to defend society against Trump’s tyranny is developing into a movement-based opposition. This commentary examines how the actions of that opposition can… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 05 June 2025 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/social-self-defense-from-protest-to-movement-based-opposition/   Listen to the audio version >> The previous Strike! Commentary, “Social Self-Defense: A Strategic Assessment,” proposed “social self-defense” as a framework for the burgeoning resistance to the MAGA assault on society. It proposed that the forces… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 21 May 2025 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/social-self-defense-vs-maga-a-strategic-assessment/   Listen to the audio version >> At the end of Trump’s first 100 days, the defense of society against his MAGA juggernaut has begun — and is gaining strength. But it will need to grow far… Read More »