Rob McIntyre is a United Workers Union delegate at the Toll Kmart warehouse in Truganina.
For 16 days in 1937, thousands of workers at Oshawa’s General Motors plant in Ontario went on strike, stood firm against brutal efforts to crush them, and helped bring industrial unionism to Canada. Today, their heroism is seldom remembered.
Starbucks is doing everything it can to stifle, delay, and repress the new union Starbucks Workers United — despite an order by a federal judge to cease and desist its myriad and repeated violations of labor law.
In Michigan, conservatives are aiming to use technicalities to block popular referenda to protect reproductive freedom and make voting easier. Their efforts are part of a long and increasingly brazen right-wing campaign to restrict democracy.
Tory members this week elected Liz Truss as Britain’s new prime minister. Arriving to office amid a cost-of-living crisis, Truss’s self-styled Thatcherism promises to only deepen the country’s woes.
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
As the people of West Papua fight for independence, the Indonesian government is hastening the exploitation of the country’s immense natural resources.
For the last few years, enthusiasts have documented Ukraine’s Soviet buildings online. Since February, they’ve been bombed and shelled. What happens next?
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Across the world, inflation doesn’t necessarily stop the Left from winning elections, but it severely limits what leftists can do once in office.
Billionaire electronics magnate Barre Seid has secretly used his wealth to influence the lives of millions, funding climate denialism as well as a national network of state-level think tanks that promote business deregulation and fight Medicaid expansion.
The Democratic Socialists of America has made inroads across the country, but nowhere does it wield the kind of political power it does in New York. A new, more conservative political climate is putting the group’s inside-outside strategy to the test.
Defining the terms you keep pretending to understand.
We shouldn’t embrace the war on disinformation just because the Right hates it.
As economic crisis grew in the 1970s, the government launched a sprawling campaign to enlist everyday Americans in a fight against inflation. But the last four decades have soured the public on such calls for self-sacrifice — and for good reason.
California representative and Bernie 2020 campaign chair Ro Khanna on building a new economy and winning back workers.
After the mass shooting in Buffalo, don’t expect conservative leaders to stop promoting the “great replacement theory” that inspired the gunman.
Inflation isn’t just an economic abstraction. It’s a slow, deadly squeeze on working people.
When it comes to buying stuff online, American workers have it made. But when it comes to “mass services” — transportation, housing, education, health insurance, and childcare — American workers are getting fleeced.