The Landless Workers’ Movement at 40
By Liam Crisan / CounterPunch This month marks the 40th anniversary of the largest social movement in the Americas: Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement, or MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem…
Grassroots Organizing in Red States Is at the Heart of Abolitionist Struggle
Here’s what we can learn from abolitionists who are organizing in some of the most conservative parts of the country.
Liz Theoharis: The Sleeping Giant of American Life
At a grassroots level, those disturbed by a changing America might begin to respond and create a new kind of democracy.
VIDEO: A Path to Peace in Ukraine
Noam Chomsky, Jill Stein, Vijay Prashad, Medea Benjamin, Brian Becker, Eugen Puryear and Claudia de la Cruz spoke on the need for negotiation, not escalation at a People’s Forum/ANSWER Coalition…
Don’t Let President Biden ‘Make Us the Dupes of Our Hopes’
More than being a time of hope—or fatalism—the inauguration of President Joe Biden should be a time of skeptical realism and determination.
With Democrats Poised to Seize Senate, Progressives Say It’s Time to Go Big
As results from the U.S. Senate races trickled in from Georgia, Rep. Mondaire Jones proclaimed, "The era of small ideas is over."
Blueprint: How to Beat the Pro-Charter Billionaires
Despite being outspent 3-1, education activists flipped a school board to take their district back from outside privatizers.
The New Politics of the Poor in Biden’s (and McConnell’s) USA
A return to the pre-Trump days would be nothing less than a disaster. We must harness the fusion politics that was so crucial to the election of Joe Biden and…
Grassroots Activists Tackle Public Safety in Minneapolis
In the city where George Floyd was murdered, violence is up and morale is down. Neighborhood leaders did not want to wait for something to turn the tide, so they…