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With the ongoing financial crisis, it’s a perfect time to look to the Bank of North Dakota. It is the only state-owned bank in the continental US and was formed in 1919 by a left-wing farmer movement to free working people from the grip of private finance.
As Congress negotiates to reauthorize important pipeline safety legislation, fossil fuel donors are pushing to add more criminal penalties for those protesting pipeline construction.
The indigenous movement is integral to the future of the planet and a winning left.
The rebellion at Standing Rock has forced labor officials to choose which side they're on: fossil-fuel companies' or the planet's.
How indigenous people and the Left can continue to win in the wake of Standing Rock.
As evidence mounts of Big Oil’s history of climate denialism, the industry’s choice law firm, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, is using the “free speech” defense to suppress criticism and safeguard oil companies’ ability to deceive the public.
The Dakota Access Pipeline company just won a landmark suit against Greenpeace worth over $660 million. At the heart of the case is a new and particularly sleazy form of partisan communications masquerading as journalism.
The foundational myths of the United States celebrate the conquest of the frontier as the creation of a nation founded on principles of equality. Nick Estes thinks it’s time Americans grappled with the truth.
The fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline is part of a centuries-long indigenous struggle against dispossession and capitalist expansionism.
Activists are fighting the construction of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline in Minnesota — a pipeline that would have devastating consequences for indigenous people in the state and for all of us around the planet.
The federal response to Lakota protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline couldn't be more different than their reaction to this year's Bundy occupation.
The victory at Standing Rock in the face of state repression is a testament to the power of direct action.
Centrist solutions to climate change are both impotent and dangerous.
Trump wants to seem all-powerful, but big business has a lot of leverage over his administration.
California’s top investment funds have resisted divestment from fossil fuels and funneled big money into firms like those behind Dakota Access. Not only are these investments dirty, but they’re costing public workers billions in the process.
The work of Native American activist Archie Phinney shows how Marxism can help advance indigenous struggle.
Standing Rock points the way forward for indigenous people and the Left.
The Green New Deal can connect every struggle to climate change. A Red Deal can build on those connections, tying Indigenous liberation to the fight to save the planet.
With Trump in office, we need resistance, but also a credible alternative.
By following the development of global capitalism and international left movements for the past three decades, Naomi Klein has analyzed the world much more clearly than mainstream political observers — and stayed ahead of the curve in proposing bold solutions to fix our most burning problems like climate change.