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Covid-19 has provided a stark reminder that today’s world is both scarred by grotesque levels of inequality and populated by

Working-Class Voices: First Person Accounts of Life and Work

A Passion for Teaching and a Vision for Change

July 2021 Kressent Pottenger austerity, education, equality, Labor, neoliberalism, women workers

Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Jia Lee, a special education teacher

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Healthcare Reform in a Post-Pandemic World

June 2021August 2021 Mark Dudzic health care, Labor, neoliberalism, trade unions, working class

The industrialized world’s most unequal and inefficient healthcare system underwent a stress test this past pandemic year and failed miserably.

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Race U.S. Politics & Society

The Black-Labor-Left Alliance in the Neoliberal Age

June 2021 Adolph Reed community organizations, equality, Labor, living wage, neoliberalism, politics, racism, Spring 2016

The report, A Future for Workers: A Contribution from Black Labor, brings together the perspectives and voices of significant black

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Beyond Coal: Why South Africa Should Reform and Rebuild Its Public Utility

May 2021August 2021 Dominic Brown climate change, deindustrialization, green economy, industrialization, Labor, neoliberalism

Despite 2020’s record fall in carbon dioxide emissions—largely due to extensive and repeated “lockdowns” of cities, plus dramatic decreases in

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Ireland’s Energy System: The Historical Case for Hope in Climate Action

May 2021August 2021 Sinéad Mercier austerity, climate change, environmental movement, green economy, neoliberalism, politics, privatization

For thirty years, governments have been promising climate action. They seem incapable of undertaking the necessary major shifts in their

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Mexico’s Wall of Resistance: Why AMLO’s Fight for Energy Sovereignty Needs Our Support

May 2021May 2021 Sean Sweeney environmental movement, green economy, neoliberalism, politics, populism, privatization

It has been more than two years since Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as “AMLO”) began his six-year term as

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Can the Chilean Uprising Survive the Pandemic?

October 2020November 2020 Administrator capitalism, informal economy, neoliberalism, radicalism, working class

Photo caption: Feed-in marchers join ongoing mass protests against the Piñera government demanding a new Chilean constitution, Santiago, Chile, December