How can the Left overcome its fragmentation? Forming a coalition against neoliberalism and environmental degradation is one way to start.
2014
What Do the Suicides of Fifty-Year-Old Men Reveal?
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Suicide has become a public health emergency for middle-aged men in the United States, exposing a deeper economic and existential crisis.
2014
Political Posters for the Twenty-First Century: A Spotlight on the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative
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Surveillance. War. Immigration. Palestine. Social justice heroes. Occupy. The political posters of the Justseeds collective take on all this and more.
2014
Joining the Party for a More Powerful Left
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The Left spends too much energy deciding whom to exclude. Let’s build a pluralistic, big-tent Left that embraces all with liberal-Left political faith.
2014
What Kind of Left Does America Need?
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Reviving our radical imagination, launching a political education program, and creating a new political formation must be the priorities of today’s Left
2014
Liberalism and the Left
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Younger leftists will work to preserve our country’s social welfare architecture — but we’re also setting our sights on revolutionary ends!
2014
Enter the Alter-Left: Reviving Our Revolutionary Nerve
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Anti-neoliberal mobilizations in Latin America, WTO protests in Seattle, and Occupy Wall Street have catalyzed a promising force: the Alter-Left.
2014
A Living Wage – Not a Minimum Wage
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We hope Democrats will succeed in raising the minimum wage to $10.10, but we realize that more is needed to end poverty. Fight for a living wage!
2014
The Past, Present, and Future of the American Left
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Retelling a liberalist story of America’s founding will never yield what we need: a self-aware Left with a proper conception of capitalism.
2014
Does America Need a Left? An Introduction
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America needs a spiritual Left—not a soul-deprived, economistic, and narrowly rights-oriented movement that plays into the hands of the Right.
2014
Why the Left Needs America: A Response to Eli Zaretsky’s Why America Needs a Left: A Historical Argument
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To be effective the Left must learn to retell the story of America’s founding. In that sense, the Left needs America more than America needs a Left.
Editorials & Actions
Uri Avnery on Crimea, Ukraine, Putin and the Nazis
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Uri Avnery
March 21, 2014
A Hundred Years Later
THERE IS an old Chinese curse that says: “May you live in historic times!” (If there isn’t, there should be.) This week was a historic time. The Crimea seceded from Ukraine. Russia annexed it. A dangerous situation. No one knows how it will develop. After my last article about the Ukrainian crisis, I was flooded with passionate e-mail messages. Some were outraged by one or two sentences that could be construed as justifying Russian actions.
Editorials & Actions
What If They Gave A War and Nobody Paid?
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Editor’s note: an interesting article by a Tikkun subscriber and ally. What if they gave a war and nobody paid? By David Hartsough
“Considering the Tax Shelter.” (Flickr/JD Hancock)
As April 15 approaches, make no mistake: The tax money that many of us will be sending to the U.S. government pays for drones that are killing innocent civilians, for “better” nuclear weapons that could put an end of human life on our planet, for building and operating more than 760 military bases in over 130 countries all over the world. We are asked by our government to give moral and financial support to cutting federal spending for our children’s schools, Head Start programs, job training, environmental protection and cleanup, programs for the elderly, and medical care for all so that this same government can spend 50 percent of all our tax dollars on wars and other military expenditures. My wife Jan and I have been war tax resisters since the war in Vietnam. We cannot in good conscience pay for killing people in other parts of the world.
Editorials & Actions
Ukrainian Fascism & Anti-Semitism–Not Everyone Agrees
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We continue our attempt to provide a wide variety of perspectives on what is happening in the Ukraine. Here we present the perspective of some of the Jewish establishment organizations reassuring us that anti-Semitism is not a big problem in the new post-coup reality of Ukraine, and then an article from a very different perspective by Zoltan Grossman arguing that the new Ukrainian government includes overtly fascist forces and that it is moving quickly to “privatize” essential services and utilities that are being given to the rich who will sell these back to the Ukrainian people who previously received them without regard to private profit. Again, we take no stand on the accuracy of any of this material, but only present it to our readers so that they can hear a wider range of views than those presented in the lamestream American media. Open letter of Ukrainian Jews to Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin
LE MAÏDAN
La place du Maidan
Mr. President ! We are Jewish citizens of Ukraine: businessmen, managers, public figures, scientists and scholars, artists and musicians.
Activism
How Jews Brought America to the Tipping Point on Marriage Equality: Lessons for the Next Social Justice Issues
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The story of Jews’ contributions to the campaign for marriage equality offers valuable lessons for how to break through public resistance on other issues that Jewish groups are now addressing, including economic justice initiatives like paid sick leave, rights for domestic workers, and raising the minimum wage.