The state can’t do anything on its own, not even with the “best” person in power. Without social mobilization and organization, a left political party or leader will inevitably run up against limitations: the power of investors, the power of the ruling class.
Ecosocialism, Extractivism, and Dual Power Read More »
Struggles will emerge from below to reclaim democracy for ordinary people and roll back financial power, by reclaiming some existing institutions and innovating new democratic forms of social organization from below.
Debt Versus Democracy Read More »
I’m here to remind you to expect resistance. We’re out there. We’re tired of the racist resource colonialism that is continued by your company.
“Your company is a threat to my children.” Read More »
A January 2017 letter to left-leaning liberals, for all our consideration here in this bright future.
The failure of humanity to meaningfully tackle this problem is completely off the scale. For thirty years we’ve seen calls to reduce carbon emissions, and they’ve gone up sixty percent. We are going a hundred million miles an hour in the wrong direction and we only seem to get faster.
We are never expected to be active in shaping our lives. We are like shadows which don’t really exist. People do things to us without asking. Open Doors is just a small step to show what we are capable of.
Tents and Drones, Open Doors Read More »
With authoritarians in power, mass disruption is the only thing that’s going to move them. They don’t care about dissent. In fact, for them, dissent serves the illusion that there is democracy.
Stop Being Such Asskissers Read More »
Members of RBSS have devoted their lives to a higher cause: the battle for the story of the Syrian war online. Some have even lost their lives for it. “We have to keep going,” says AbdAlaziz Alhamza.
Reporting Against Brutal Occupiers Read More »
“People are stepping up to take responsibility in their communities and their own lives in a way that in my short life I have not seen. So yes, I absolutely think there’s a revolution going on here.”
Deciding the Future in Detroit, the US, the World Read More »
It’s not a matter of “helping” or being nice to poor people. It’s about sharing power. It’s about listening to what they say and amplifying their voice. People are the subjects of their own liberation, the subjects of their own freedom.
Who Is Doing the Liberating? Read More »
