We need institutions truly capable of meeting peoples’ needs – we need health clinics and social workers, democratic schools and worker cooperatives, neighborhood assemblies and reclaimed homes. We need them on a large scale, and we need to defend them from the attacks of the status quo. We need to take space not symbolically, but for keeps. Read more →

But we are smart and we are strategic. We recognize that real (as opposed to rhetorical) reform to these systems can make life materially better for millions of struggling people in our country, as well as make it easier for us as revolutionaries to push for deeper change. Read more →

By now OWS has been featured on the news all around the world, and there is no shortage of analysis regarding its potential political impact. But the internal organization, structure and functioning of the occupations are at least as noteworthy. Read more →

A quote well-known among activists, variously attributed to Gandhi or US labor leader Nicholas Klein, says that “first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” In the space of just the past several… Read more