Hannah Appel is cofounder of the Debt Collective, the United States’ first debtors' union. She also teaches anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles, where she serves as the associate director of the Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy.
Under finance capitalism, we can exert power by collectively leveraging not just our labor but also our debts. This May Day, let’s think about worker organizing and debtor organizing as part of the same struggle.