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Resistance Is Alive and Well in the United States

Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman, Soha Hammam Waging Nonviolence
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches of 2017, but research shows they are far more numerous and frequent — while also shifting to more powerful forms of resistance.

Trump’s Antisocial State

Melinda Cooper Dissent Magazine
The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

Constitutional Collapse

Aziz Rana Sidecar, blog of New Left Review
Trump/Musk are pursuing the collapse of the American constitutional model, fundamentally altering the terrain on which the US left operates, requiring an oppositional politics the country has not seen since the time of FDR.

Severance Is an Indictment of Workplace Hell

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Apple’s dystopian workplace thriller Severance entered its second season as a genuine cultural phenomenon. With its brutal satire of the American corporate structure, it’s easy to see why.

Let Workers Lead

Jane Slaughter Jacobin
The “worker-to-worker” organizing model adopted by many of the most dynamic unions and campaigns in the country has enormous promise for revitalizing labor — in large part because it puts workers themselves in the drivers’ seat.

Wells Fargo Is Plotting To Privatize the Post Office

Paul Prescod Jacobin
A newly released memo from the banking giant Wells Fargo outlines a predatory scheme to dismantle the USPS: sell off profitable parts, slash union jobs, and raise prices by up to 140 percent.

Fighting the Trans Care Scare

Eva Moschitto Indypendent
“Withholding the availability of services from transgender individuals based on their gender identity or their diagnosis of gender dysphoria, while offering such services to cisgender individuals, is discrimination under New York law."