Crisis, Creativity, and a Labor Movement Revival
By Erica Smiley The evening of February 27, 2018 was a tense one for Jacob Staggers, a sixth-grade English teacher
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Featured stories, news, opinions, reviews, poetry & arts, and other content from the latest issue of the New Labor Forum.
Beyond Generational Politics: Do Millennials Constitute a Political Category?
On March 1, 2018, the Pew Research Center issued two reports on generational demographics in the United States. The first
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DSA Today: Interview with Activists in the Democratic Socialists of America
The explosive growth of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has been one of the most extraordinary developments in recent
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The Business of Migration: Fear, Exploitation, and the Political Economy of Immigration Restriction
On November 8, following a military buildup at the United States’ Southwest border, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued
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Resisting “Big Other”: What Will It Take to Defeat Surveillance Capitalism?
“Electrical information devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance are causing a very serious dilemma between our claim to privacy and
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Democrats and Foreign Policy: What Will It Take to Overthrow the Foreign Policy Establishment?
The presidential election of 2020 could present a fundamental turning point in the way the United States conducts its foreign
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Stonewall at 50: Whose Movement Is It Anyway?
In late June of this year, millions of queer people[1] descended on New York City to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
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STRIKE! Why Mothballing Labor’s Key Weapon Is Wrong
When the labor movement rises again, it will not be the result of improved methods of organizing house calls, the
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The Left Gets a Foreign Policy, Sort of.
With the number of Democrats who’ve opted to challenge Donald Trump’s reelection in 2020 now well into double digits and
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Renewing Working-Class Internationalism
Trump’s 2016 victory has generated a growing internal debate within left-leaning circles about the future direction of the Democratic Party.
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