He’s walked back what he said, as the saying goes. But on May 15 when answering a question on Meet the Press about the Medicare…
A post-Mother’s Day rant and reflection on the past and present lives of women… Yes, women have it worse than men. But for women of…
Professor Elizabeth Warren strikes me as a smart, cool customer. I’ve only seen her on the tube on the Daily Show and the NewsHour, but…
Hisham El Rouby is the founder and CEO of Youth and Development Consultancy Institute (YDCI), which helps young Egyptians develop technical and leadership skills and…
Saturday’s London march was called by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and it was absolutely brilliant. In spite of the miles walked I was still…
Once upon a time I was lucky enough to move into a house with a small and completely overgrown garden. So my then-partner Manny and…
The year is 1984 and I am on a bus riding through the green pastoral landscape of Northern Spain’s Basque country with about 30 other…
Almost no one writes about what happens after the victory, the hard work and daily struggle after the barricades, the factory occupations, the mass mobilizations….
Guest blogger, Susan D. Anderson, is the author of Nostalgia for a Trumpet: Poems of Memory and History, and has written, taught and lectured widely…
It’s what we did on the 23rd, we did it to hold our own People’s Assembly, and extraordinary it was too! The crowd outside was…
On Saturday I marched. Again. We keep marching. They’re still cutting student funds, and raising student fees after the lib dems promised to get rid…
Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov While it’s odd to think of Los Angeles as fitting in the theme of a Resistance City, there are hardcore struggles…
One of the most inspiring episodes of popular uprising to me was the Paris Commune, a brief but visionary period of communal governance of the…
A piece of my heart will always live in Glasgow. It is a city of incredible warmth and beauty and humour, one that welcomed me…
Last year I read The City and the City a sci-fi detective story by China Mieville, which takes place in two cities that are in…
This video-poem highlights key organizing efforts in Chicago including images from the cityscape as well as the front lines.