Opal Lee is a writer.
A December 2021 missive from managers at the Elmwood Avenue location of Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, after workers voted 18 to 9 in favor of unionizing, shared by Starbucks Workers United on Twitter.
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While certain writers or texts might fall afoul of polite society today, great writing can and will never stay canceled.
The metros in Kyiv and Kharkiv — Soviet-era “palaces of the people” — have doubled as bomb shelters during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Much of the late Joan Didion’s writing from the 1960s and ’70s is characterized by a pessimism about the New Left. She thought hippies and the rest of the counterculture were worthy of contempt, and she thought radicals like the Black Panther Party and various Marxist groups were both ludicrously far from power and frightening menaces to society.
Four lessons from Ben Tarnoff’s Internet for the People.
The crypto takeover of European football promises to empower supporters — but in truth, it’s just marketing fluff for a giant pyramid scheme.
American TV once threatened to become radical and strange through the proliferation of local stations. But it wouldn’t be allowed to last.
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
It’s bad and could get worse. Socialists need a response.
Two films about the Tennessee Valley Authority stress its utopian promise and the lives that had to be destroyed to fulfill it.
The Rural Electrification Act (REA), passed in 1936 as part of the New Deal, enabled the federal government to provide loans to rural electric cooperatives. Access to electricity transformed education, farm work, and home life for communities previously ignored by big electric companies. Nearly 50 years after the passage of the act, the North Carolina Association of Electric Cooperatives conducted 44 interviews with rural residents whose lives were affected by the REA.
How did New York become the only metropolis in the world to insist that its transit map reflect the layout of the city above?
Since the War on Terror began, the US military has used aerial bombing campaigns to avoid American combat losses. But they’ve led to a staggering number of civilian deaths.
Whatever the outcome of the Ukraine war, it’ll mean a more divided and armed Europe.
What’s sitting on the nightstand of the Labour Party’s greatest living leader?
Chile’s private bus companies tried to repress the working-class vote. It backfired.
The battle over New York’s Indian Point power plant was quietly a battle for the soul of American liberalism.
Saudi planes have wreaked havoc on every part of Yemen.
For all its utopian trappings, web3 tech like cryptocurrency only deepens the problem of elite control over the internet. We have an alternative.