Jeremy Brecher

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Polycrisis

Polycrisis is a word that has recently come into use to characterize the way crises in many different spheres – ranging from geopolitics and economics to climate and pandemic – are aggravating each other and even converging.

In 2024, I wrote a twelve part series of commentaries on the polycrisis.

“The Whole World Is in a Terrible State o’ Chassis”

Dynamics of the Polycrisis

The New Hot Wars

From Unipolar Globalization to Polycrisis

The Gaza War: The Glory of the Polycrisis

US vs. China

Will Polycentrism Solve the Polycrisis?

What Ever Happened to Globalization?

Great Power Struggle Over Fragmented Global Networks

Macroeconomics Meets the Polycrisis

Trump, Trumpism, and the Polycrisis

Inequality and the Polycrisis

 

I revisited the topic in early 2026 with another series, “Polycrisis 2.0.” This series explored the polycrisis in three parts: the current state of polycrisis; development of the polycrisis in the Trump era; and the intensification of fifteen of its dynamics, with a preliminary perspective on how the polycrisis might eventually be transcended.

Up for Grabs: Polycrisis 2.0

Dynamics of Polycrisis 2.0

Quelling the Polycrisis

 

The Polycrisis 2.0 series was then made into a series of videos in collaboration with Z Network.

Up For Grabs Dynamics of the Polycrisis Quelling the Polycrisis

 

 

ABOUT JEREMY BRECHER

11You and I may not know each other, but I suspect there are some problems that we share -- problems like climate change, war, and injustice. For half a century I have been participating in and writing about social movements that address those problems. The purpose of this website is to share what I've learned. I hope it provides something of use to you in addressing our common problems.

For the record, I am the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements. I have written and/or produced more than twenty video documentaries. I have participated in movements for nuclear disarmament, civil rights, peace in Vietnam, international labor rights, global economic justice, accountability for war crimes, climate protection, and many others.

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Common Preservation

  Human Survival Movement

Climate Protection

  Climate and Labor

  Climate Insurgency

  Against Doom

  Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs

Labor History

  Strike!

  Common Sense for Hard Times

STRIKE! Commentaries on Solidarity and Survival

  • Greentech Revolution: Energy Consumption
  • The Greentech Revolution: Energy Production
  • The Greentech Revolution: A New Strike! Series
  • Quelling the Polycrisis
  • Dynamics of Polycrisis 2.0
  • Up For Grabs: Polycrisis 2.0
  • Social Strikes: Confronting ICE and Resisting Authoritarianism

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