After the Coal Rush
In Montceau-les-Mines, a French town once dependent on coal mining, there was no just transition from fossil fuels. Once a left-leaning industrial hub, Montceau today is an open field for the far right.
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Can Extinction Rebellion Survive?
XR promised to transcend politics as we know it. Yet politics has a stubborn way of catching up with those who disavow it.
The Roots of the French Far Right’s Rise
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is reaping the fruits of a long history of anti-European sentiment.
A Show of Strength for Climate Justice
At Friday’s climate strike and the protests that followed, the “convergence of struggles” long championed by the French left began to take shape. A dispatch from Paris.
Climate Politics after the Yellow Vests
Far from being anti-environment, the gilets jaunes have exposed the greenwashing of Macron’s deeply regressive economic and social agenda.
The Faces of Eviction
Sociologist Matthew Desmond discusses the scope of the eviction epidemic—and how ordinary people are fighting back.
Try Socialism
Since Trump took office, a growing number of Americans have been willing to “try socialism,” as a DSA hashtag puts it. The 2017 results show that a new generation of socialists is serious about translating this still amorphous interest into lasting power.
Bombing for Ratings
The pundits cheering last Thursday’s surprise airstrikes on a Syrian base are only fueling Trump’s adventurism.
The Fracktivists
Far from being a NIMBY conceit, the anti-fracking movement is central to the global fight against climate change—and for a more just, sustainable economy.
Why I Got Arrested at #FloodWallStreet
The People’s Climate March represented a tremendous step forward for the climate movement—but something more was needed.
Beyond “Conflict Minerals”: The Congo’s Resource Curse Lives On
“In sub-Saharan Africa,” a video at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show announces, “there is war that feeds off of global demand for electronics. The place is the DRC—the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The region is ground zero for conflict minerals.” Tech giants including Intel and Apple are now working with NGOs to clean up their supply chains and help promote peace in the region. But will their proposed solutions challenge the deeper patterns of exploitation plaguing the DRC?
Putin to West: Go Frack Yourself
By the time Crimeans went to the polls yesterday, it was clear that their referendum on secession added little more than rhetorical flourish to a military and political fait accompli. With over 95 percent of those polled voting to join …
Partial Readings: Buddhists, Neo-Fascists, and Islamophobia
The sickening murder of a British soldier in the London district of Woolwich last week has unleashed a surge of Islamophobia across the pond that makes U.S. reactions to the Boston bombings look tame. Most conspicuous were militant demonstrations by …
Partial Readings: The Rule of Law
Last Thursday, in a major policy speech at the National Defense University, President Obama unveiled the legal scaffold his Department of Justice has been erecting, one piece at a time, around the “targeted killing” program that has become the signature …
Partial Readings: May Day, Twenty-First–Century Marx, the Subaltern Studies Spat
Before taking to the streets this May Day, Dissent celebrated by surveying a year’s worth of highlights for organized labor. Picking up where we left off, let’s take a look at how May Day shaped up around the world this …
