by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/the-unemployed-vs-the-coronavirus-depression/, on 30 July 2020 The preceding commentary, “Fighting the Great Depression – From Below,” described the grassroots action by employed and unemployed workers in the early years of the Great Depression. This commentary and the subsequent ones tell how, in the face of the… Read More »
A Plan for Black Lives in the Coronavirus Emergency
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/a-plan-for-black-lives-in-the-coronavirus-emergency/, on 26 June 2020 The previous commentary, “Black Lives in the Green New Deal,” described how the uprising in response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer is developing toward a movement addressing the multifaceted oppression of Black people in… Read More »
Fighting the New Depression From Below
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/fighting-the-great-depression/, on 15 July 2020 The United States has entered the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. This commentary describes the grassroots movements of the early years of the Great Depression in order to learn something about the dynamics of… Read More »
Black Lives and the Green New Deal
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/black-lives-and-the-green-new-deal/, on 11 June 2020 Black Lives Matter mural being painted on a street of Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo Credit: Office of Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Wikimedia Commons We are in the midst of the largest mass uprising in half a century. It is a… Read More »
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