Peace on Paper
Division still rules politics in Northern Ireland. But some organizers are working to reach across the walls.
Winter 2025
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How to Fight White Backlash
What three seminal books by black intellectuals, all published in 1967, can teach us about fighting racism in the Trump era.
Renewables Alone Won’t Save Us
We need to get off fossil fuels as quickly as possible. But we can’t do it without drastically cutting energy consumption for the global rich.
What Lenin’s Critics Got Right
No regime identifying with Bolshevism has led to anything that can be called “liberation,” as early left-wing critics like Julius Martov and Rosa Luxemburg foresaw.
Them That Has, Gets
There is no starker measure of inequality in the United States than net wealth—and over the last four years, the divide has only grown.
New York Isn’t Ready for a Constitutional Convention
Without a much larger movement to overcome New York’s political machine, a constitutional convention risks rolling back progressive victories—not adding to them.
October’s Long Shadow
In Russia, the legacy of the October Revolution is the most forgotten, the most ignored, and the most paradoxical of all.
Belabored Podcast #138: Wobblies of the World, Then and Now, with Peter Cole
The history of the IWW—and its concept of “One Big Union”—holds lessons for the labor movement today.
Neither Master Nor Subject: Zionism, Empire, and the Balfour Declaration
It was just a three-sentence letter, written 100 years ago—and many claim it’s still shaping the Middle East. But we should be careful about what we read into the Balfour Declaration.
Catalonia Leaps into the Dark
The future of a Catalan Republic does not look bright. But opposition to the central government’s crackdown might yet help usher in a more democratic Spain.
Belabored Podcast #137: Sex, Power, and Labor Rights, with Ariane Hegewisch
Sexual harassment is a labor issue.
Radical Adaptation
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, New York grassroots groups have charted an inspiring alternative to disaster capitalism.
Borgland
How did a sculptor with neo-Confederate leanings find a home in one of the twentieth century’s most influential liberal salons?
Revolution by Candlelight: How South Koreans Toppled a Government
South Korea’s Candlelight Revolution was the culmination of a sustained protest movement that brought out over 16 million people—almost a third of the country’s population.
Watch: Rural Electric Cooperatives and the Unlikely Case for Utility Populism
Dissent contributor Kate Aronoff speaks to C-SPAN about rural electric cooperatives and their potential to seed a grassroots green populism.
