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by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability on 26 March 2021, original article can be accessed here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/the-future-of-people-power-in-the-coronavirus-depression/ Listen to the audio version >> What can we learn from the role of people power in the Great Depression and in the first year of the Coronavirus Depression? Based on the seven preceding… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability on 12 March 2021, original article can be accessed here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/the-great-depression-and-the-coronavirus-depression/ Listen to the audio version >> The fate of Biden’s “Build Back Better” proposals–and of hard-hit working people throughout the country–may depend not just on officeholders in Washington but on the action of ordinary… Read More »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »