A Green New Trade Policy Neoliberal free trade agreements in the 90’s dealt a crushing blow to the working class. The Left should learn the lessons of that period and support targeted tariffs paired with other industrial policies.
Class Divides in the Politics of Building The turn to a “politics of building” is a welcome change in environmental thinking, but the green Left is still at odds in important ways with the labor movement, which better understands what is needed for deep decarbonization and, most importantly, has the power to help bring it about.
Build Stuff and Make Things To fix what deindustrialization broke, manufacturing still matters—don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
A Death Sentence for the American Left? Are Dylan Riley and Robert Brenner pointing to real impossibility or mere political limits?