In Rob Wallace’s most recent book, he reviews what is known about the development of the virus that causes Covid-19 in the context of industrial farming combined with habitat destruction. Inherent in his critique is a condemnation of capitalist...
>> CLICK HERE TO VIEW NOW << Rob Wallace and Mike Davis are two of the world’s leading left-wing thinkers and writers on the subject of the pandemic. Rob Wallace is an evolutionary biologist, a visiting scholar at the Institute for...
To survive, we must swiftly transition to ecosocialism. But how do we do that? Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson describes that organization’s inspiring model of local cooperative working and community life, and its visionary Call to Action:...
“Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to ‘normality’, trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to...
We live in an era of plagues because of capitalist development, argues socialist author Mike Davis. In this transcript from a conversation streamed live on April 11, 2020, Davis also says coronavirus has exposed the gap between a tiny rich elite and...
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Earth Day to May Day: Shifting the Paradigm
We encourage you to participate in Earth Day events/actions — and to share this info with relatives, friends, neighbors, youth, parents, grandparents, etc. This week, is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. A Youth Climate strike was...
This is the fourth in a series of commentaries by LNS policy and research directorJeremy Brecher on the subject of Workers vs. Coronavirus. The previous commentary “I Talk to Workers Every Day – They’re Afraid They’re Going to Die”[1] described how...
Who can use the term “gone viral” now without shuddering a little? Who can look at anything any more — a door handle, a cardboard carton, a bag of vegetables — without imagining it swarming with those unseeable, undead, unliving blobs dotted with...
Dear Friends, We hope you’re doing well and doing what you can to take care as the coronavirus continues to spread and claim lives. As we have been doing in past weeks, below we share a sample of some of the news, analysis, and tools...
When I think back on this crisis in the years to come, two images will stay with me. One is of ordinary Italians singing to one another across balconies in solidarity with neighbors in isolation and caregivers on the frontlines. The other is that of...
