From Universal Rent Control to Cancel Rent: Tenant Organizing in New York State
By Celia Weaver New York’s housing crisis is so entrenched that it is understood to be nearly inevitable. “The rent
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Labor’s Capital: Why and How to Put Public Capital at the Service of Labor
By Robert C. Hockett Setting the Stage Here in the United States, we have an economic system in which public
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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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