by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Common Dreams on 06 December 2020, original article can be accessed here: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/12/06/states-change-what-green-new-deal-can-learn-new-deal States played a critical role in developing the New Deal. That history holds key lessons for the Green New Deal. The Green New Deal seeks to create millions of jobs and address inequality by rebuilding the… Read More »
States of Change: What the Green New Deal Can Learn from the New Deal
Jeremy Interview for the Lessons of the Sixties Project
Seattle 1999, Creating a Two-Sided Battle
by, Jeremy Brecher and Suren Moodliar, originally published in Socialism and Democracy Volume 34, 2020 Issue 1, https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TU5WZHCTMT93VRIENQGN/full?target=10.1080%2F08854300.2019.1718314& ListenReadSpeaker webReader: ListenFocus Suren Moodliar: I’d to reflect on your understanding of the meaning and import of Seattle both for that particular political moment and for our current one. In order to get there, can you tell us how you… Read More »
The Biden Climate Plan: Part 2: An Arena of Struggle
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/the-biden-climate-plan-part-2-an-arena-of-struggle/, on 10 December 2020 Listen to the audio version >> The climate plan released by Joe Biden in August presents a wide-ranging program for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The previous commentary, “The Biden Climate Plan: Part 1: What It Proposes” summarizes that plan. This commentary… Read More »
The Biden Climate Plan: Part 1: What It Proposes
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/the-biden-climate-plan-part-1-what-it-proposes/, on 02 December 2020 Listen to the audio version >> This commentary analyzes Joe Biden’s “Plan for Climate Change and Environmental Justice” released in August.[1] The following commentary, “The Biden Climate Plan: Part 2: An Arena of Struggle,” will consider the struggles that are likely… Read More »
People Power in the Coronavirus Depression
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/people-power-in-the-coronavirus-depression/, on 03 November 2020 Listen to the audio version >> As we enter an era of constitutional crisis, contested government, intensifying pandemic, and mass economic disruption, the future of democracy will depend on popular mobilization. The earlier commentary “Fighting the Great Depression – From Below” described… Read More »
How Workers Can Help Defeat a Trump Coup
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/how-workers-can-help-defeat-a-trump-coup/, on 21 October 2020 Tweet This Commentary >> Donald Trump, desperately behind in the polls, appears to be laying the groundwork for illegally attempting to remain in office if he loses the election. A previous commentary, “Social Self-Defense Against the Impending Trump Coup” laid out a… Read More »
Social Self-Defense Against the Impending Trump Coup
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/social-self-defense-against-the-impending-trump-coup/, on 04 October 2020 Listen to the audio version >> President Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power no matter who wins the election. What is to be done if Trump loses the election but refuses to concede? The purpose of this… Read More »
Workers vs. The Coronavirus Depression
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/workers-vs-the-coronavirus-depression/, 17 September 2020 The COVID-19 era has confronted workers with unique threats and problems – and they have turned to unique strategies to counter them. The previous commentary, “Striking in the Coronavirus Depression,” described how workers in hundreds of workplaces conducted strikes and other forms of… Read More »
Self-Help in the Coronavirus Depression
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/self-help-in-the-coronavirus-depression/, on 11 August 2020 Migrant family looking for work in the pea fields of California. Date: 1935. Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Wikimedia Commons. In the early years of the Great Depression of the 1930s, unemployed and impoverished workers turned… Read More »
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