Riding the Whirlwind vs. Systematic Organizing
Strikers guarding window entrance to Fisher body plant number three. Flint, Michigan, 1937. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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Looking Forward: America’s Marxist Past
Caption: Enslaved people picking cotton while watched by a white overseer on horseback. Picture taken circa 1850 in the American
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Labor and the Struggle for Iranian Democracy
Riot police against protesters in Tehranpars, 2019. Photo: Mehr News Agency, CC 4.0 International License For Iranian people who imagine
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It’s All About the Leaders: Manufacturing Wins in the UAW
The United Auto Workers’ (UAW) recent organizing breakthroughs in auto manufacturing in the South, major nationwide strikes, and decisive contract
Read More“I Built That Building”: The Working Life of a Glazier
For this article, New Labor Forum contributor Peter Lucas interviewed Charles Anderson, a field superintendent for Walters & Wolf in
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The Labor Movement Must Call the Question on Medicare Privatization
Caption: Seniors and retirees protest cuts to Medicare, July 13, 2023. Credit: William Alatriste/NYC Council Media Unit The passage of
Read MoreHow the Democrats Can Rebuild a Working-Class Majority
What is the best way to build working-class power when labor’s leverage over capital is near a historic low? With
Read MoreDoes “Conservative Leftism” Have a Future?
Commentators right and left survey today’s political landscape and conclude, with historian Matt Karp, that “the political story of the
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Could Sisyphus Have Tried Harder? Reflections on the Sweeney Administration’s Efforts at Mass Organizing, Thirty Years Later
Credit: Luis Feliz Leon, labor journalist. Caption: Amazon delivery driver Jogernsyn Cardenas stopped his van to join the strike and
Read MoreHow the U.S. Labor Movement Is Confronting AI
When Boston University graduate students went on strike in April, Stan Sclaroff, the university’s dean of arts and sciences, sent
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