Category: Power Building
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Food security ‘experts’ don’t have all the answers: community knowledge is key
Scott Drimie, Stellenbosch University and Michelle Eichinger, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam South Africa is in the grips of a food system paradox. It’s a country known for its agricultural production and has a sophisticated policy framework. Yet, millions of its residents are malnourished. Nearly one in four children are stunted as a result of their mother’s…
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To Transform Work, Start with Schools
By RUBEN ABRAHAMS BROSBE, originally published by Yes! Magazine Not long ago, before the pandemic, I was teaching fourth grade. One of my students, a quiet boy who wore his hair in a long ponytail, hated school. Much of the content felt overwhelming for him, and so he would often run out of the classroom. …
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What Can Unions Do Now to Defend Abortion Rights?
By Sarah Hughes, originally posted on LaborNotes The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health on June 24 overturned the Roe v. Wade precedent, erasing the constitutional right to an abortion. Already for years, large parts of the U.S. have severely restricted abortion—especially hurting those least likely to have resources to travel for care, including poor, Black,…
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Prisoner Prophet: Revisiting George Jackson’s Analysis of Systemic Fascism
By Colin Jenkins for The Hampton Institute, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The rise of Donald Trump has brought talk of fascism to the forefront. While comparing US Presidents to Hitler is certainly nothing new – both Obama and W. Bush were regularly characterized as such by their haters – Trump’s emergence on the national political scene…
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Toward 100 Chapters of the Los Angeles Tenants Union
LATU builds toward a future without rent by addressing immediate needs, building power and transforming the political consciousness of tenants in LA. By the Los Angeles Tenants Union for roarmag.org In 2017, tenants living around the corner from the famous Mariachi Plaza in Los Angeles received a sudden, massive and legally-permitted rent increase. The landlord…
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Towards a Student Unionism
By Jasper Conners Original PDF edition below Introduction The current crisis of capitalism confronts and a drastic decrease in the real-world returns from a college degree. Not only is it harder to afford college, but we’re coming out of it with more debt and fewer job opportunities. It seems like a four year degree only…
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Run This Town: Building Class Power in the City
Posted originally on linchpin.ca (now defunct) By Three Hamilton Members, One Toronto Member of Common Cause The Marxist urbanist Henri Lefebvre wrote that the working class is made out of urban material. His point was that to understand the working class and to organize it, one had to look at everyday working class life from…
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The Seattle Solidarity Network: A New Kind of Working Class Social Movement
By Walter Winslow, found on LibCom.org SeaSol offers an alternative strategy for how to begin organizing in an anti-union era. Its founding members realized that the IWW simply cannot organize workers at this point in the 21st century in droves as it did in the early 20th century. In fact, the IWW as well as…
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Knowing our history means being able to continue the struggles
Originally published on komun-academy.com (now defunct), CC BY-NC-SA The Initiative “History and Resistance” introduces itself Who are the democratic forces in the history of the German-speaking world? What traces have they leave us? How did people live and organise before the emergence of the national state, which happened here comparatively late? These and many more…
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The 2012 Quebec Student General Strike
Originally published at studentstrike.net (now defunct), CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Printable PDF pamphlet below Introduction In February 2012, students in Quebec launched an unlimited general strike to fight back against a 75% hike in university tuition fees. Contrary to the expectations of many, the strike movement lasted more than six months, morphing into one of the largest periods…
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