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 »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 17 July 2024 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here:https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/from-unipolar-globalization-to-polycrisis/ Listen to the audio version >> How, in a few short years, did we get from a world order dominated by the United States and characterized by economic globalization to one of great power rivalry and global economic… Read More »