This is a reply to “Spain’s Social Revolution Against Fascism” which appeared in Jacobin. Historians do not agree in their take or interpretation of the Spanish revolution and this is clear from the inaccuracies in the piece you published by…
This July marks the 90th anniversary of the onset of the civil war and revolution in Spain. In this essay I want to suggest that the efforts of the Spanish working class in that epic conflict provide elements for building…
Capitalist society has a dynamic tendency towards constant technological change — change in products, methods of production, and in the ways workers are managed in the production process. But technological development under capitalism is inherently conflicted — it provides human…
This essay was previously published by ZNetwork. China’s vast development and export of renewable energy gear and electric vehicles is helping to drive the green transition globally — the transition away from reliance on the burning of fossil fuels. As…
Review of The AI Con by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna The book The AI Con is a clearly-written and fairly concise examination of the reality of “Artificial Intelligence” and its use to intensify or degrade work and eliminate jobs…
A review of Jeremy Brecher’s Green New Deal From Below When I use the phrase green transition in this review, I’m referring to the shift of human society away from a reliance on the burning of fossil fuels — creating…
By Tom Wetzel and Steve Ongerth This is a reply to the recent polemic against renewable energy by Peter Gelderloos. We agree with a number of the points Gelderloos makes. But we disagree with his claims about renewable energy and…
Interview on the It’s Going Down podcast Steve Ongerth on the Bombing of Judi Bari and Redwood Summer | It’s Going Down (itsgoingdown.org)
Capitalist society has a dynamic tendency towards constant technological change — change in products, methods of production, and in the ways workers are managed in the production process. I am going to suggest that capitalism has a very distinctive way…
A review of Means and Ends by Zoe Baker By Tom Wetzel Zoe Baker’s book Means and Ends is a comprehensive look at the revolutionary class-struggle anarchist movement as it existed and developed in the period from the International Workingmen’s…