Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Despite a monthlong national countdown to its expiration, the White House and Congress failed to even try to extend the eviction moratorium until the last minute. Their excuses and finger-pointing won’t save them at the ballot box.
Forty years ago today, 13,000 air traffic controllers went on strike. President Ronald Reagan would soon crush that strike — leading to devastating consequences for organized labor and all workers that we’re still dealing with today.
As his fellow West German radicals began to embrace violence in the 1970s, legendary filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder decided to celebrate another path for emancipation: class struggle in the workplace.
Pulp’s 1995 hit “Common People” isn’t just a Britpop classic — it’s a more honest and brutal analysis of class than you’ll hear in the media today.
From America’s Kurt Cobain to China’s Lelush, pop stars earn their adoration not only from performing but from refusing to perform.
As the Reagan era kicked into overdrive, Americans abandoned earthy and organic home decor to turn their residences into cold, sleek totems to upper-class aspiration.
In the 1970s, sports movies were funny, bitter comedies about working-class jocks taking aim at both the front office and the rich.
The question is no longer whether the working class matters, but how it can fight back.
If an extra $300 a week in unemployment is enough to keep us out of kitchens, it should tell you something about our lives.
I started working at Amazon during the pandemic. I wanted to organize my workplace, but at the end of a long day, everyone just wanted to get home as fast as possible.
While millions of Americans worked remotely during the COVID pandemic, millions more either showed up to a deadly job site or were thrown into unemployment. What will the recovery be like for them?
What have three decades of market reforms meant for the world’s largest working class?
The middle class isn’t going away — and we’re not sure they’ll help us.
Robert Tressell was a great writer whose class position meant he died without knowing the appreciation of his work.
The Second Gilded Age is starting to look more and more like the first.
Under capitalism, prejudice against workers is common. But it only adds insult to a deeper, more profound injury.
From Berlin to the Ruhr, the organized working class resisted Hitler’s reactionary appeals.
For most of the news media, the life and struggles of the majority class just aren’t newsworthy.
The culture of British trade union militancy in auto plants like Austin Longbridge wasn’t the “natural” result of a Golden Age of capitalism — it came from organizing.