Backstage with a Makeup Artist
Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Cynthia O’Rourke, a makeup artist and member
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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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More Austerity Coming? Lessons from New York’s 1970s Fiscal Crisis
Photo caption: Andrea Vásquez, Professional Staff Congress (PSC) first Vice President, before heading to the May 18, 2020, caravan calling
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The Red for Ed Movement, Two Years In
Photo caption: Teachers’ strike in Phoenix, Arizona on April 26, 2018. Photo credit: Eric Blanc By Eric Blanc In late
Read MoreOn-Again/Off-Again: The Relationship between Socialism and U.S. LaborÂ
Democratic socialists want to achieve, as the late British Labour Party leader Tony Benn often put it, a fundamental and
Read MoreAll Unhappy Social Democratic Parties Are Alike: They’ve Lost the White Working Class
By Harold Meyerson In the recent U.K. elections that gave Boris Johnson’s Tories a resounding victory, Britain’s Labour Party was
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Game Workers Unite!
Editor’s Note: For this article, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger inter- viewed Declan Peach, a game worker
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DSA Today: Interviews with Activists in the Democractic Socialists of America
The explosive growth of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has been one of the most extraordinary developments in recent
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Rethinking the Problem of Alliance
Highlights for April 15th The gaping income and wealth inequality, increasing constrictions on democratic rights, and perilous ecological unsustainability that
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#CountMeIn: The NYC Building Trades Campaign Puts It All on the Line
An unusual but increasingly common sight on the streets of New York City, hundreds, some- times thousands of union construction
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