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 »
People Power in the Coronavirus Depression
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 »
Striking in the Coronavirus Depression
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/striking-in-the-coronavirus-depression/, on 02 September 2020 In response to COVID-19 and the COVID-19 Depression, workers have developed unique strategies and forms of organization to protect their lives and livelihoods. We saw in “Fighting the Great Depression — from Below” how in the early years of the Great… Read More »
The Unemployed vs. the Coronavirus Depression
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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