U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Democracy
Credit: Communication Workers of America From its inception, the U.S. labor movement’s fate has been intimately bound up with the
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Who Pays for Inflation?
Caption: Fred Wright cartoon from the 1970s, updated to reflect increases in corporate profits, prices and wages over the past
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Sectoral Bargaining: Labor’s Pathway to Power?
Top: Amazon Labor Union leader Christian Smalls at May Day 2021 rally. Photo credit: Alex Casconne Bottom: Union members at
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The Chicago Teachers’ Strike Ten Years On: Organizing for the Common Good, Then and Now
Ten years ago, Chicago educators lit the fuse of what eventually became a national teachers’ revolt. Faced with Democratic Mayor
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Democratizing the Knowledge Economy: Will Labor Accept the Challenge?
We are in the midst of cascading political, economic, health, and environmental crises. Perhaps most evident is the Republican Party’s
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Social Democracy or Fortress Democracy? A Twenty-First Century Immigration Plan
In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois observed that “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of
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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
Read moreIreland’s Energy System: The Historical Case for Hope in Climate Action
For thirty years, governments have been promising climate action. They seem incapable of undertaking the necessary major shifts in their
Read moreMexico’s Wall of Resistance: Why AMLO’s Fight for Energy Sovereignty Needs Our Support
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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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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