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Mini-Review: Jeremy Brecher’s Strike!
Fire with Fire Of all the sweeping US labor histories out there, Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! is the best one I’ve read. It…
Dynamics of Polycrisis 2.0
By Shelter and Solidarity March 3rd, 2026 The year since Donald Trump’s accession to power has seen an intense augmentation…
Social Strikes: Endgames
By Shelter and Solidarity December 1st, 2025 Social strikes represent the withdrawal of cooperation and acquiescence by a whole society,…
Social Strikes vs. MAGA Tyranny
By Jeremy Brecher October 1st, 2025 What if MAGA rule so dismantles the institutions of representative democracy that normal institutional…
Social Strikes in American History
By Jeremy Brecher September 16th, 2025 What can we do if MAGA authoritarianism so undermines democratic governance that it cannot…
Make the Fossil Fuel Powers Stranded Assets
By Jeremy Brecher August 18th, 2025 As Donald Trump is trying to stamp out everything that might power the world…
How a Movement-Based Opposition Defeated the First Trump Coup
On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of President…
Social Self-Defense: From Protest to Contest
By Jeremy Brecher With its aggressive use of the military at home and abroad, the Trump administration appears to be…
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…