Opal Lee is a writer.
The rising bloc conflict shows the fallacy of the idea that there is a single “world” capitalist class. Not every flare up is driven by crude economic calculation — but the rivalry between states has deep material roots.
Silicon Valley hype presented the digital economy as a source of dynamic growth as well as a liberating force for workers. In reality, digital technology is facilitating brutal forms of exploitation while productivity and growth are slowing down.
Despite charges of genocide, mass starvation, thousands of dead children, and the near-entire destruction of Gaza, when Kamala Harris was asked if she would “do anything differently” on US policy toward Israel in its bloody war, she said no.
Twentieth-century black labor leader Ernest Calloway never became a household name. But through his work in both the Teamsters and the NAACP, he embodied the transformative potential of a united labor and civil rights movement.
Who’s to blame for the failure to bring Israeli hostages home safe? Israeli officials have been telling us for months it’s Benjamin Netanyahu.
One of the world’s largest payment processing companies is charging parents exorbitant fees to load money into students’ meal accounts. The operation is now facing federal scrutiny.
Viktor Orbán has ruled Hungary for most of its post-1989 history. Far from just a weird outlier, his rule is a product of Hungary’s integration into globalized capitalism — and increasingly sets an example for other EU member-states.
Demanding that voters vote for the lesser of two evils when the evil in question is genocide is not a winning strategy, write political strategist Hanieh Jodat and former socialist Buffalo mayoral candidate India Walton.
Since the 1800s, from Eugene Debs to the Milwaukee “sewer socialists,” the US socialist movement has been especially vibrant in the Midwest — and continues to shape American heartland politics today.
Interest in unions and workplace organizing is high, but proactive workers have few opportunities to launch their own organizing drives. The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee is trying to change that.
Throughout his career, the critic Fredric Jameson has pitted himself against reductive Marxist approaches to culture and a close reading tradition blind to politics. His latest book shows him at the height of his powers, carving out his novel alternative.
In Thuringia, former East Germany, the far-right AfD has won a state election for the first time. Its success is the product of a low-wage economic model that has itself fed anti-migrant backlash.
For much of its history, the AFL-CIO has enthusiastically backed US foreign policy. During the Cold War, that included actively participating in efforts to suppress left-wing labor movements abroad.
United Teachers Los Angeles’s transformation into a strike-ready, progressive union offers lessons for how today’s labor upsurge can produce durable, transformative union power, writes former UTLA president Alex Caputo-Pearl.
With union popularity at historic highs and organized labor’s war chests overflowing, now is the time to spend big on strikes and new organizing. So far, unions mostly aren’t doing that.
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This Labor Day weekend, we share Eugene Debs’s 1888 broadside against that most hateful of characters: the strikebreaker. The scab “sinks to the level of a loathsome reptile,” Debs writes. “He becomes a walking, breathing stench.”
Organizing in a right-to-work state and a highly multilingual warehouse, Indiana Kroger workers faced long odds heading into contract negotiations. Holding open bargaining sessions and work-to-rule actions helped them win big.
You cannot understand antifascism if you don’t understand fascism, both in its contemporary guises and historically in countries like Italy.
This week 40 years ago, police from across the UK descended on the mining town of Easington to quash the historic miners’ strike. The police left, but deprivation from deindustrialization and neglect remain.