Migrant workers have been fleeing from India’s cities as the US war on Iran sends fuel prices soaring. The scenes today resemble the exodus of migrant workers to their home villages during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the crisis is just beginning.
Krystal Ball, Vivek Chibber, and Matt Karp discuss how class politics stalled after the Bernie Sanders campaigns — and why a new political opening is finally emerging.
Since the pandemic, Americans’ hardship withdrawals from their 401(k) funds have soared. It’s a stopgap for many people who are struggling, but also points to a dysfunctioning pension system.
In 2024, the Scottish National Party suffered its worst election setback for decades at Labour’s hands. But the calamitous record of Keir Starmer’s government has given the party and its leader John Swinney the chance to recover its dominant position.
Tech oligarchs like Elon Musk envision a future in which a chosen elite enjoys sovereignty, as a service, through the technologies they provide. Those left outside their Edenic fortress are merely a threat.
A new book recounts how San Francisco tenant organizers took on tech-fueled displacement in the 2010s. Their campaigns were brave, media-savvy, and sometimes successful — but the conditions that made them possible have changed, and so must the strategy.
When Zohran Mamdani won the mayor's race, his critics predicted a mass exodus of wealth and business from New York City, cratering its tax base. It’s been nearly six months since he won, and market indicators suggest so far that the rich are staying put.
Two former United Auto Workers organizers make the case for what they call a “leadership density” union organizing model. That model was central to recent UAW breakthroughs, and we should accept no substitutes in similar campaigns.
Socialism cannot mean merely managing capitalism more fairly. It must point toward a society where survival is no longer contingent on the market — and where democracy extends into the economy itself.
An overwhelmingly immigrant workforce in Colorado — speaking over 50 languages — says it won its strike at the largest meatpacking company in the world, striking a blow against an industry that has colluded to suppress wages and raise consumer prices.
The New York City Council has passed two bills that would restrict the freedom to protest across the city. Mayor Zohran Mamdani must now decide if he can stop at least one.
While Pentagon budgets have steadily increased in recent years, the arms industry has become more consolidated, more automated, and less labor-intensive. The warfare state is not an effective economic development strategy for working people.