strategy and tactics

When it comes to tactical innovation, the global climate justice movement has been stuck in a rut. Prior to Covid, we witnessed decades of one-off marches and rallies, scattered direct actions (the Blockadia celebrated by Naomi Klein) and the more recent intervention by Extinction Rebellion (XR)...

Facing the Music: Religion, Nationalism and Sports Have Enchanted the Working Class; Socialism Hasn’t November 19, 2018 Patrice de Bergeracpas Part One by Bruce Lerro / Perspectives / 18 Nov 2018 Orientation Religion, nationalism and sports as propaganda for the ruling class In the closing...

The System Change Not Climate Change listserv has been the venue for a lively debate on the efficacy of campaigns to force divestment from fossil-fuel stocks and possible alternative demands and methods for curtailing carbon emissions. Participants in the exchange have agreed that the topic...

Leaving Unpaid and Low-Paid Labor Behind: working toward a feminist eco-socialist system [Below are ideas I presented at the latest Solidarity convention in Chicago Illinois. I was part of a panel devoted to ecosocialism. Some of the ideas below are actually gleaned from novels, where I often...

Abstract The following essay takes up two interrelated questions posed by the current debate. The first is about the feasibility of transitioning to a hundred percent “clean” renewable energy in the United States by 2050. The second is the existential climate crisis sharply posed by the...