• Dossier No. 75: The Political Organisation of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
    Dossier No. 75: The Political Organisation of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)

    This dossier focuses on the MST’s tactics and forms of organisation and why it is the only peasant social movement in Brazil’s history that has managed to survive for over a decade in the face of the political, economic, and military power of Brazil’s large landowners.

    The GI Life in “The One We Had to Win”
    The GI Life in “The One We Had to Win”

    Veteran Cleveland writer and photographer Scott MacGregor recovered a manuscript written by his uncle Hugh O’Neill, which turned into Captured! A World War II Memoir. In it, O’Neill weaves a real-life tale of his life as a prisoner of the Germans in the last year of the Second World War and Cleveland comic artist Gary Dumm, who has worked with the best of the genre, Harvey Pekar in particular, provides vivid illustrations.

    Neurodiversity and Justice: Embracing Neurodiversity as Part of the Fight Against Discrimination and Injustice
    Neurodiversity and Justice: Embracing Neurodiversity as Part of the Fight Against Discrimination and Injustice

    It is time to position ourselves at the pivotal intersection where the celebration of neurodiversity meets the call for social justice.

    Economic Democracy with Pavlina Tcherneva
    Economic Democracy with Pavlina Tcherneva

    Money on the Left speaks with Pavlina Tcherneva, Professor of Economics at Bard College and leading scholar of–-and advocate for—Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Many of our listeners will be familiar with Dr. Tcherneva’s contributions to MMT, especially her book, The Case for a Job Guarantee (Polity Press, 2020). We speak with Pavlina about her work, and also get her perspective on the causes and conditions of MMT’s movement from the margins of economic discourse toward the mainstream of political economic thought. 

    First city-wide rent reduction in the history of New York State, ordered by the Rent Guidelines Board of Kingston, New York, is upheld by Appellate Court
    First city-wide rent reduction in the history of New York State, ordered by the Rent Guidelines Board of Kingston, New York, is upheld by Appellate Court

    New York State's Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974 permits the regulation of residential rents  ("rent stabilization") on the declaration of a housing emergency in New York City when the vacancy rate falls below 5%, or by similar declarations in municipalities in the suburban New York City counties of Nassau, Westchester and Rockland.

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