Volume 35, Issue 2, Spring 2026

Contents

Labor’s House Needs New Foundations

Leveraging the Laboratories of Democracy to Empower Workers
By Sharon Block and Rajesh Nayak

Taking It to the States: State and Local Initiatives to Build Worker Power Beyond the NLRA
By Charles Du and Bertolain Elysee

Assessing Donald Trump’s Federal Workers Union Bloodbath 
By Joseph A. McCartin

Looking Forward: America’s Marxist Past

Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History
By David McNally

Karl Marx in America
By Andrew Hartman
Reviewed by Jeffrey Sklansky

Worker Misclassification and the Struggle for Collective Power in Ultimate Fighting
By Leila Kim

Striking Against Authoritarianism? Democratic Potentials of Industrial Action in Eastern Germany
By Andre Schmidt

“Trade Unionism Is Not Extremism!”
Labor and the Authoritarian Government in Belarus
By Olena Nikolayenko

Will the Data Center Boom Make the Climate Go Bust? 
By Cathy Kunkel

We Are All Gig Workers Now: A Roundtable on the Next Gig Economy 
By Lina Moe, Drew Weber, and Noah Meixler

How New York Unionists Established a Labor College
By Jeff Schuhrke

Two Views on the 2005 NYC Transit Strike

From New Directions to Backward Steps
By Marc Kagan

Lessons of the 2005 New York City Transit Strike
By Roger Toussaint

Columns

Working-Class Voices

A Constant Sense of Discovery: Neuroscience at the National Institutes of Health
By Peter Lucas

Books and the Arts

Dangerous Memories in Brazil 
The Secret Agent
Directed by Kelber Mendoça Filho
Reviewed by Ella Mahony

The Case for Labor Movement Optimism
Who’s Got the Power? The Resurgence of America’s Unions
By Dave Kamper
Reviewed by Robert Nelson

Mapping the Drive toward Electric Vehicles 
Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles and a Just Future
By Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor
Reviewed by Daniel Polk

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

Poetry
By Franny Choi

Choi Jeong Min 

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On