Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country, eds. Dani Burlison and Margaret Elysia Garcia (Chico, California: AK Press, 2025) Red Flag Warning is a new collection of essays and interviews dedicated to exploring mutual aid in…
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…
By Rudolf Rocker Image: Art UK This article is reprinted from the May-June 1933 issue of Vanguard. The development of the labor movement in most of the countries following the dissolution of the First International places into sharp relief the…
Marine mammals on the coast of California are currently suffering unprecedented devastation and mass-death due to an ongoing harmful algal bloom (or HAB, as Heal the Bay calls it) that is tragic evidence of the worsening climate emergency produced by…
By the East Bay Syndicalists Group May First is a labor holiday that originated in the anti-labor repression and violence in the USA in the Gilded Age of the late 1800s. That was the era when Social Darwinism was the…
By East Bay Syndicalists Group Since Trump was inaugurated and brought in billionaire oligarch Elon Musk and his hacker team to do a wrecking operation on many programs and agencies of the federal government, Trump and his team have moved…
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…
A Brief Review of the “Roadmap to Contra Costa County Refinery Transition” Recently a group of refinery workers’ unions and Bay Area environmental justice groups released an overview of a Roadmap to Contra Costa County Refinery Transition. In a reformist…
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…
People’s uprising against an autocratic state: The present, past and future of Bangladesh As I am writing this statement, I don’t know the whereabouts of most of my comrades who participated in the ongoing protest of students in Bangladesh. All I…