Pete Dolack

Pete Dolack has been an activist with several groups, most recently Trade Justice New York Metro. He writes the Systemic Disorder blog and is the author of the books What Do We Need Bosses For?: Toward Economic Democracy and It’s Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment.

Alternative Climate Summit Seeks More Action on Global Warming

What We Do in the Election Booth is Not the Same as Activism

We Can’t Understand Capitalism Without Understanding Slavery

The Failure of COP30

Sanctions, More Deadly Than War

The True Unemployment Rate May be 25%

The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory

Oil and Capitalism: Perfect Together (But Not for Us)

Precarious Workers are Employees Without Stability, Not “Entrepreneurs”

Columbia’s Profile in Cowardice is Nothing New

Why the Corporate Party Won’t Last Forever

Bourgeois Formal Democracy for Now but Could Fascism be the Future?

The Uses and Misuses of Ideology in Analyzing the Syrian Overthrow

It’s the End of the World and I Don’t Feel Fine

The Cost of Corporate Profit in U.S. Health Care Reaches $2 Trillion

There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage?

U.S., Opposition Claims on Venezuela Election Fall Apart Under Scrutiny

You Are Not Alone if You Are Out of Work

Capitalism Can’t Overcome the Laws of Physics

Capitalism Attacks Argentine Workers and You May be Next

The Sad Spectacle of Lesser-Evil Elections

Why Should We Give All Our Money to Landlords?

So Long, and Thanks for All the Hamburgers

The Prioritization of Human Health, Development and Self-Activity in Chavez-era Venezuela

If Capitalism is ‘Natural,’ Why Was so Much Force Used to Build it?

Rational Thinking Versus Conspiracy Theories

It’s a Capitalist World

The Tragedy of Allende-Era Chile: A Strong Start Countered by Imperialist Assault

The World’s Food System Brings us Inflation, Hunger and Waste

The Taft-Hartley Act: ‘Neutrality’ as a Weapon

When Does a Formal Democracy Degenerate into Fascism?

Global Division of Labor and Inequality

How Does an Economic System so Hostile to Life Endure for Centuries?

Call it Whitewashing or Greenwashing, World Bank Subterfuge Doesn’t Fool Us

Central Banks are a Symptom, Capitalism is the Cause

Right-wing Attempts to Eliminate Constitutional Protections are No Joke

COP27 Continues the Climate Summit Ritual of Words Without Action

China talks Marxism, but Still Walks Capitalism

It’s a Clean Sweep! Not One Country Guarantees Workers’ Rights

The Financial Industry is a Lot Bigger than a Giant Vampire Squid

Yes, Gorbachev Was a Failure but Other Hands Helped Bring Down the Soviet Union

We Have No Cheering Interests When Two Oligarchic Right-Wing Governments Fight

Imagining a “Half-Earth” Sustainable Economy

Financial Manipulation and Inequality Keep Rising

As Long as Housing is a Commodity, Rents Will Keep Rising

Banks Fueling Global Warming is Business as Usual

Corporate Greed Keeps the Pandemic Alive

Another Global Warming Worry

There’s No Money? Then How Can There be $10 Trillion for Financiers in Two Years?

As Long as Capitalism Exists, the Threat of Fascism Exists