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STRIKE! Why Mothballing Labor’s Key Weapon Is Wrong

April 2019April 2019 Joe Burns Labor, labor movement, strike, trade unionism

When the labor movement rises again, it will not be the result of improved methods of organizing house calls, the

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Featured International Labor & Politics 

The Left Gets a Foreign Policy, Sort of.

March 2019March 2019 Bob Dreyfuss Democratic Party, Democrats, foreign policy

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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Featured International Labor & Politics 

Renewing Working-Class Internationalism

January 2019February 2019 Aziz Rana capitalism, Democratic Party, empire, foreign policy, globalization, military-industrial complex, politics

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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Featured Precarious Work 

Daniel in the Lion’s Den: Platform Workers Take on Tech Giants in the Workplace and the World

January 2019February 2019 Julianne Tveten capitalism, collective bargaining, corporations, industry, Labor, military-industrial complex, unorganized workers

In recent years, Silicon Valley’s platform workers have introduced a phenomenon previously alien to their industry: collective action. This process

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Beyond #MeToo

August 2018February 2019 Judith Levine contingent workers, gender discrimination, immigrant workers, Labor, trade unions, unorganized workers, women workers

Power and sexploitation at work.

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Featured International Labor & Politics Organized Labor & Worker Organizing 

Who Built Zion? Palestinian Labor and the Case for Political Rights

August 2018February 2019 Andrew Ross colonialism, construction trades, Labor, Palestine, politics

Those conscripted to build Israel are due full citizenship rights.

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Featured International Labor & Politics 

The Remarkable Rise of Jeremy Corbyn

August 2018February 2019 Hilary Wainwright Brexit, Corbyn, democracy, equality, trade unions, U.K. Labour Party

Taking back the British Labour Party.

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Featured U.S. Politics & Society 

Is There a Deep State, and If So What Is It?

August 2018February 2019 Jacob Silverman democracy, Democratic Party, industry, military-industrial complex, neoliberalism, Republican Party

When paranoia carries the right of truth.

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Featured Organized Labor & Worker Organizing 

The Case for “A Right to Your Job” Campaign

August 2018February 2019 Moshe Marvit and Shaun Richman community organizations, democractic party, employment rights, just cause, Labor, union organizing

A proposal for Advancing Worker Rights and Power

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Featured Organized Labor & Worker Organizing U.S. Politics & Society 

The Time Has Come for Sectoral Bargaining

June 2018August 2018 Larry Cohen collective bargaining, right-to-work

It is now clear that enterprise-based organizing and bargaining in the U.S. has a dim future.  U.S. workers’ collective bargaining

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