Can the Chilean Uprising Survive the Pandemic?
Photo caption: Feed-in marchers join ongoing mass protests against the Piñera government demanding a new Chilean constitution, Santiago, Chile, December
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Moneybags for Billionaires, Body Bags for Workers: Organizing in the Time of Pandemics
Photo caption: In Bel Air on July 1, 2020, Marie Germaine, a local elementary school teacher speaks at a press
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In a Covid-19 World, Can Hotel Workers Keep Their Gains?
Photo caption: Anand Singh (center) in the middle of Minneapolis’ Fourth Street, during coordinated national demonstrations against Marriott in 2018.
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Public Health, Private Equity, and the Pandemic
UPMC Susquehanna closed the former Sunbury Community Hospital on January 31, 2020–about six weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic reached the
Read moreSocialism and the Argument against Race Reductionism
It might be said that out of the dissemination of historical studies there has been born into the world a
Read moreOn-Again/Off-Again: The Relationship between Socialism and U.S. Labor
Democratic socialists want to achieve, as the late British Labour Party leader Tony Benn often put it, a fundamental and
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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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Made in L.A.: Sweated Labor in the U.S. Garment Industry
Editor’s Note: The more things change, the more they stay the same. To a surprising extent, the super exploitation of
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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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The Business of Mass 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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