Four years after the first Green New Deal resolution was introduced in Congress, the instigators are back with a fresh platform.
Chomsky discusses proposals he believes would meet the needs of the poor and working classes while tackling the climate crisis.
Sunrise melded mass protest, electoral work, and distributed organizing to great effect, but 2020 upended its plans and forced a reassessment
Sunrise Movement made climate change a key political issue, but new conditions require new theory and strategy
A People's Green New Deal by Max Ajl (Pluto Press 2021)
With the news that West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin will co-sponsor the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, Labor and its allies are beginning to get a gleam in their eyes. Labor activists see the PRO Act as the key to building back a powerful...
The PRO Act is emerging as the left’s answer to a classic political tension.
Following warnings that the coronavirus-triggered drop in planet-warming emissions would be short-lived without structural changes, the International Energy Agency released data Tuesday showing that global CO2 emissions from the energy sector were...
A Review of Ashley Dawson, People’s Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons (OR Books, 2020) I don’t mind admitting, when my wife and I purchased a solar array two years ago, I basked a bit in my climate virtue. True enough, the tax incentives were a...
One of the keys to Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump was his constant and accurate accusation that Trump “refuses to follow the science” on COVID-19—that “he won’t listen to the scientists.” It proved to be a winning campaign theme...
