By Jeremy Brecher With its aggressive use of the military at home and abroad, the Trump administration appears to be…
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Social Self-Defense: From Protest to Movement-Based Opposition
By Jeremy Brecher The previous Strike! Commentary, “Social Self-Defense: A Strategic Assessment,” proposed “social self-defense” as a framework for the…
Strategic Guidelines for Social Self-Defense
By Jeremy Brecher In a previous Strike! Commentary I proposed a strategic perspective for defending society against MAGA tyranny. It…
What Really Happened in the First Trump Resistance?
By Jeremy Brecher As we grapple with how to live through and ultimately terminate the nightmare of the second Trump…
WCH Podcast E99-100: Vietnam war strike wave
By Working Class History January 8th, 2025 With the background of the Vietnam war, rising prices and stagnant wages, workers…
The Four Expectable Axes of MAGA Action
By Jeremy Brecher February 16th, 2025 Protester against Trump, July 13, 2017. Photo credit: Alisdare Hickson, Wikimedia Commons, CC by-SA…
US vs. China
By Jeremy Brecher In barely a decade the US and China have moved from tacit alignment to existential rivalry. Impacted…
The Gaza War: The Glory of the Polycrisis
By Jeremy Brecher August 2nd, 2024 Listen to the audio version >> This commentary, the fifth in a series on…
The New Hot Wars
By Jeremy Brecher Listen to the audio version >> “Polycrisis” is a word being used to describe the current confluence…
Dynamics of the Polycrisis
By Jeremy Brecher, Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder June 25th, 2024 “Polycrisis” is a word that has recently come into…