Labor’s Future in the Global Trade War
As trade tensions rise and industrial policies are reshaped, labor faces critical decisions in a world plagued by economic nationalism and climate change.
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Israel Is Ethnically Cleansing Northern Gaza
Carpet-bombing entire residential blocks, wiping out entire neighborhoods, slaughtering at least 100. It’s another weekend of Israel’s impunity in killing Gazans, this time in Beit Lahiya in the north.
Errol Morris’s Reminder of Trump’s Sadistic Border Policy
Donald Trump’s separation of children from their families at the border was a centerpiece of his migration policy. Errol Morris’s new documentary, Separated, chronicles the cruel policy during Trump’s first term that would likely return in a second.
Protecting Undocumented Organizers From Retaliation Is Vital
Employers take advantage of the fact that few know about DALE, a federal program that protects undocumented workers from retaliation. Helping these workers access their rights is a key step toward organizing some of the US’s most predatory workplaces.
How the Media Whitewashes Israel’s Rampage
For over a year, the US and UK media have refused to identify Israel’s war as a genocide. Mainstream outlets are only willing to regurgitate their governments’ soft criticisms of Israel, which serve to mask the West’s complicity in the slaughter.
No, Marine Le Pen Doesn’t Represent Precarious Workers
The rise of France’s far right is often blamed on increasing labor precarity. In fact, Marine Le Pen’s party is backed by the parts of the working class most hostile to the values of social solidarity — including in the workplace.
Why My Coworkers and I Unionized Our Architecture Firm
This summer, workers at Bernheimer Architecture in New York City became the first private sector architects in the US to ratify a union contract. An architect at the firm explains their road to a first collective bargaining agreement.
Oil Companies Are Still Determined to Burn the Planet Down
The big energy firms have largely stopped denying the scientific consensus about climate change. But behind their rhetoric about “net zero emissions,” there’s an unflinching determination to keep profiting from oil and gas, whatever the cost.
The British Establishment Has Always Demonized Protesters
The response to recent protest movements in Britain, from climate justice to Palestine, repeats a familiar story. The British power elite has always vilified protesters and targeted them with bogus prosecutions in a bid to frighten them off the streets.
You Know About the KKK, but What About the Black Legion?
The Black Legion was a white supremacist fascist group headquartered in Lima, Ohio. It grew to hundreds of thousands of members in the 1930s and engaged in violent acts of racist terrorism. Its worst deeds are lost to memory, but they shouldn’t be.
Workers Just Won the First Walmart Warehouse Union in Canada
In Mississauga, Ontario, 800 workers just won the first union at a Walmart warehouse anywhere in Canada or the US. It’s a big breakthrough at the notoriously anti-union retail giant.
The Strangely Empty Politics of Kamala Harris
With Kamala Harris’s campaign struggling to extinguish the possibility of another Trump presidency, she seems willing to try everything — except for a clear political vision that folds together broad antiwar sentiment and economic populism.