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Paul Prescod is a Jacobin contributing editor.
Donald Trump’s bait and switch with American workers is his greatest fraud of all. While uttering meaningless platitudes about fighting for workers, he is setting back the labor movement in ways that previous administrations could never do.
Philadelphia. Yes, we’ve booed Santa Claus. But we’ve also had an incredibly rich history of labor militancy.
The United States Postal Service is a crucial institution for black workers in America. That’s why Bernie Sanders’s strong support for defending and expanding the USPS is a key racial justice issue.
For black meatpacking workers, multiracial class politics was the path to economic and social advancement.
In 1970, postal workers went on strike and provoked a national crisis for the United States government. Their rebellion holds lessons for labor today.