ASTRA TAYLOR is a filmmaker, writer and co-founder of the Debt Collective, a debtors’ union that fights for a democratic, reparative, socialist restructuring of the economy. Her latest book is The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart.
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Now Is the Time for Big Ideas
A post-inauguration roundtable hosted by Haymarket Books with Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the dismantling of the administrative state and the path to corporate takeover accompanying it
Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Chenjerai Kumanyika
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"You Are Not A Loan!" Introducing the Nation's First Debtors' Union
Debtors’ unions, in solidarity with labor unions and tenants unions, are the organizing formations we need to dismantle genocidal racial capitalism.
Hannah Appel and Astra Taylor
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You Can’t Be a Socialist Alone: Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Two intellectual and movement leaders talk candidly about the growing mass rejection of capitalism—and the challenges of converting that into real socialist organization.
Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Astra Taylor: Bernie Sanders’ Exit Is an Indictment of Our Broken System—Not His Campaign
Voter suppression was stronger than Bernie Sanders' voter turnout plan. And the pandemic has made things worse.
Astra Taylor
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The Decade That Put Capitalism On Trial
How the 2008 financial crisis kicked off a new age of dissent
Astra Taylor
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
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Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.