Had a great discussion with @nickfrenchnyc.bsky.social about recent debates over union strategy (and my new book) www.left-notes.com/p/worker-org...

For Left Notes and @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social, I interviewed @ericblanc.bsky.social about his new book, with an eye to how we should understand “worker-to-worker organizing” in relation to older traditions of left-wing unionism. open.substack.com/pub/leftnote...

How might labor finally reverse its long decline? @nickfrenchnyc.bsky.social and @ericblanc.bsky.social discuss the promise of worker-to-worker organizing.

For Left Notes, I wrote about the depressing trend of people forming intimate relationships with AI www.left-notes.com/p/ai-chatbot...

Not a lot to crow about from 2024, but I'm proud of the writing work @nickfrenchnyc.bsky.social and I did. Check out some of the highlights from our year taking notes for the left. www.left-notes.com/p/left-notes...

Left Notes’ 2024 roundup: @nealmeyer.bsky.social and I look back on the year www.left-notes.com/p/left-notes...

I wrote about Jimmy Carter’s infamous “malaise” speech, and how as president Carter worsened the problems he decried jacobin.com/2024/12/jimm...

Grocery prices are out of control. 1 in 4 NYC kids isn't getting enough to eat. Local government must act. Today I'm announcing a major new proposal to lower costs and tackle price gouging: city-owned grocery stores. More at @nytimes.com. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/n...

A beautiful mind

Anne in 2002 you called for the killing of Palestinian journalists for the crime of simply making Israel and the US look bad. This year Israel, consistent with your position, has killed 150+ journalists in Gaza. Is it your opinion that killing Palestinian journalists “suppresses real journalism”?

Hell ya Bernie: "I think that what Osborn did should be looked at as a model... He took on both parties... [W]here people can run in the Dem primary and win, that’s fine. Where it is more advantageous to run as an independent... we should do that..." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Training what Gramsci called "permanent persuaders" — party activists who constantly are organizing their neighbors/coworkers/friends — is a critical political task. Volunteers knocking on strangers' doors and having 30 second convos at election time isn't enough. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I wrote some reflections on the deep roots of Trumpism’s success in the US today, beyond the particular campaign failures that Democrats are now agonizing over www.left-notes.com/p/trump-rawl...