Volume 35, Issue 1, Winter 2026

Contents

From the Editorial Team

Kent Wong: Educator, Organizer, Visionary 1956-2025 
By Gregory Mantsios

UAW to Labor: Go Big or Go Extinct

Reclaiming May Day for a Working-Class Fightback
By Shawn Fain

Is Labor at the Point of No Return?
By Chris Brooks

Seizing the Moment: Lessons from the Front Lines of the UAW’s Fight to Scale Up
By Chris Brooks

How New York Unions Can Rebuild under Mayor Zohran Mamdani
By Eric Blanc and Brandon Mancilla

Morally Bankrupt: The Dollar System After American Legitimacy
By Nic Johnson

A New Day for Mexico’s Labor Movement?
By Edwin F. Ackerman

The Campaign for the Massachusetts Millionaire Tax
By Eve Weinbaum

Discrimination by the Numbers: Southern Workers and the Exclusions of Title VII
By Michael J. McGrorty

The Limits of Success: Philadelphia’s Eviction Diversion Program
By Kaelin Mae Miller

A Role for Graduate Workers in Organizing the South
By Zara Anwarzai and Samuel Smucker

Columns

Working-Class Voices

“I Built That Building”: The Working Life of a Glazier
By Peter Lucas

Books and the Arts

Ben Shahn and the Art of Resistance
Ben Shahn on Nonconformity
Reviewed by Kitty Weiss Krupat

“Emperor” Has No Clothes
The Emperor of Gladness
By Ocean Vuong
Reviewed by Danyoung Kim

Answering the Call to Organize
Disconnected: Call Center Workers Fight for Good Jobs in the Digital Age
By Debbie J. Goldman
Reviewed by Paul Prescod

From the Fiscal Crisis to the Affordability Crisis
Drop Dead City
Directed by Michael Rohatyn and Peter Yost
Reviewed by Imani Radney

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

Poetry
By Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Names We Sing in Sleep & Anger
On Loving Red
Big City