Rethinking the Problem of Alliance: Organized Labor and Black Political Life
What would it take to find common ground?
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Featured stories, news, opinions, reviews, poetry & arts, and other content from the latest issue of the New Labor Forum.
The Cure Worse than the Disease: Expelling Freeloaders in an Open-Shop State
Why members-only unionism is no solution as “right-to-work” becomes the law of the land.
Read MoreWinning Clean Energy & Climate Justice for All
By Sean Sweeney Sean Sweeney, from New Labor Forum and Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED), speaking at the 2017
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Climate Solidarity: Workers vs. Warming
Jeremy Brecher of the Labor Network for Sustainability has come out with a timely new book. We’re honored to present
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White Working-Class Voters and the Future of Progressive Politics
In the aftermath of the 2016 election, there have been hundreds of reflections written on the behavior, attitudes, needs, and prospects of the “white working class,” a segment of the population that will prove vital to any progressive coalition that stands for both social and economic justice. But what do we mean by “white working class”?
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Appeal for a Reinvigorated Veterans Movement
I carry numbers. Ernest Hemingway carried numbers too. In his case, it was the numbers of roads and regiments. He didn’t care much for platitudes about glory, sacrifice, honor, or courage. He found them obscene. So do I. But my numbers are different from his. The numbers I’m most conscious of – that claw at me – are the numbers of the dead. Twenty-five. That’s the number of
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Sick on Arrival Health Care Reform in the Age of Obama
Despite all of the parallels drawn between President Obama and Franklin Roosevelt, the new administration initially responded to the health
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Over the Rainbow: The Uncertain Future of U.S. Politics
The World Turned Upside Down: ‘Our Revolution,’ Trump Triumphant, and the Remaking of the Democratic Party When Bernie Sanders conceded
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The Democratic Party Left After the Ellison DNC Campaign: Unite or Fight?
One thing to keep in mind about the recent Thomas Perez–Keith Ellison race for Democratic National Committee chair is that it was pretty much an only-in-America sort of thing. Were we in any kind of parliamentary system – like most countries have – the two sides would probably be in different parties – the Bernie Sanders core of the Ellison
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Recognize, Reduce, Redistribute Unpaid Care Work: How to Close the Gender Gap
In September 2016, in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. election, in which Hillary Clinton was expected to become the
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