Contents

Can Trump’s GOP Make a Home for the Working Class?

Does “Conservative Leftism” Have a Future?
By Chris Maisano

How the Democrats Can Rebuild a Working-Class Majority
By Jared Abbott

Building a Conservative Labor Movement: American Compass and the Right’s Pro-Worker Policy Agenda
By Kristoffer Smemo

Moving Beyond Free Trade and Protectionism: Tariffs Then and Now
By Melanie Sheehan

The Labor Movement Must Call the Question on Medicare Privatization
By Katherine Isaac

The Build Public Renewables Act: An Ecosocialist Future

The Road to Public Renewables: Climate Change and Class Consolidation
By Patrick Robbins

New York State’s Build Public Renewables Act: Progressive Era Policy Reenvisioned for the Climate Crisis
By Elise Reynolds

Contrasts and Continuity: Artificial Intelligence Policy since 2019
By Rianka Roy, Kaushik Bhattacharya, and Wyla Solsbery

Coalitions in Motion: Labor and Riders Organizing for Transit Justice
By Alex Karner

Our Assets, Our Control: Democratize Finance, Rebuild Labor Power 
By Michael A. McCarthy

Working-Class Voices

“You’re Terminated”: Under Siege at the DOE
By Kressent Pottenger

Books and the Arts

Labor’s Direction in Perilous Times 
We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big
By Eric Blanc
Reviewed by Alex Caputo-Pearl

Filming Urban Class Consciousness

Happiness and History: Idiocy, Agency, and Exploitation in Lazzaro Felice 
Lazzaro Felice and the Films of Alice Rohrwacher
Reviewed by Miranda Strominger

From Urban Idiocy to Class Consciousness: The Documentaries of Deepa Dhanraj
Labor and Love: 8 Documentaries
By Deepa Dhanraj
Reviewed by Vincent DeLaurentis

Exploring Racial Experience as a Basis for Class Consciousness through Interior Chinatown
Interior Chinatown
Reviewed by Caroline Aung

Out of the Mainstream: Books and Films You May Have Missed 
By Matt Witt

Poetry
By Dave Newman

I’m Trying to Lead This Old-Timey Veteran
You really want to work here?