The Black-Labor-Left Alliance in the Neoliberal Age
The report, A Future for Workers: A Contribution from Black Labor, brings together the perspectives and voices of significant black
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community organizations
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
Read moreThe New Solidarity: How Immigrant Bond Funds Free ICE Detainees
By Mariya Strauss On August 7, 2019, veteran civil rights attorney Cliff Johnson, who directs the MacArthur Justice Center at
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Women Farmworkers Fight to Secure Their Rights and End Sexual Harassment
Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s Working-Class Voices columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed three women who are members of
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Sex Work is Work
A good number of sex workers wouldn’t define themselves as sex workers, but the term is becoming more ubiquitous over
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The Case for “A Right to Your Job” Campaign
A proposal for Advancing Worker Rights and Power
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Going on Offense During Challenging Times
How collective bargaining becomes a revolutionary act.
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Justice on the Job for Nail Salon Workers– Narbada Chhetri and Pabitra Dash interview with Kressent Pottenger
Organizing on the far side of the economy is gaining ground once thought impossible.
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Rethinking the Problem of Alliance: Organized Labor and Black Political Life
What would it take to find common ground?
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Organizing in a Brave New World
Austerity, growing inequality, and the economic and political domination of billionaires, bankers, hedge funds, and giant corporations make the current moment ripe for birthing a movement that can radically transform the country and the world. This is a time of great peril, but also of extraordinary opportunity and—yes—reasons for hope. The last four decades have been characterized by unrelenting attacks on the working class, the weakening of unions and the financialization of capitalism.
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