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Decades After Nike Promised Sweatshop Reforms, Workers in This Factory Were Still Fainting

Workers have fainted for years inside Cambodia’s garment factories, where more than 57,000 people now produce Nike goods. People at Nike’s suppliers fainted en masse in 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019, according to news reports at the time, part of a string of events in which thousands of Cambodians got sick, vomited or collapsed…
What would a general strike in the US actually look like?

Calling for general strikes is a staple of the radical toolkit. (I’ve made questionable efforts to call two or three myself over the past half-century.) But why has the idea of such mass actions suddenly appeared on the lips of such a wide range of people? There are three principal reasons:
“God Wants You to be an Aspiring Capitalist”

Pentecostal pastors in particular enjoy dedicated adherents, political and international patronage. David Oyedepo (Africa’s richest pastor), Enoch Adeboye, Jerry Eze, Biodun Fatoyinbo, Paul and Betsy Eneche, and many others have even become capitalists themselves. They all have churches that are aligned with the so-called prosperity gospel message, preaching that health and wealth are the exclusive…
How the Metal of NUMSA was Bent

Animating all of this is a bigger strategic rift between rival factions of Numsa and the broader federation. In 2018, SAFTU convened a working-class summit (WCS) where 147 organizations representing unions, social movements, and civics were present. The majority of delegates affirmed the need to form a new working-class party, but the question of when…
A Civilian-Led Solution to Addressing Cartels

While both countries continue to rely on military efforts to counterattack drug cartels, families are demanding technical and financial assistance to accelerate the search of the missing and the identification of the more than 70,000 bodies that remain in the forensic backlog. As a first step, they seek to initiate a national dialogue, with the…
How to Organize Against Authoritarian Creep(s)

Simply, we can’t do the same things as before because what we’ve done wasn’t enough. Living in these “interesting” times, it bears remembering that in crisis there is also opportunity. We find ourselves in a closing space — our inclusive civil society under attack. There is an element of claustrophobia bearing down upon those of…

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Social Revolutionary Analysis and Insights at Your Fingertips

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Decades After Nike Promised Sweatshop Reforms, Workers in This Factory Were Still Fainting

What would a general strike in the US actually look like?

“God Wants You to be an Aspiring Capitalist”

How the Metal of NUMSA was Bent

A Civilian-Led Solution to Addressing Cartels

How to Organize Against Authoritarian Creep(s)

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