Uncommon CORE
The 2012 Chicago Teachers Union strike would have never come to be without the patient building of a radical formation within the union, the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators.
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On Fredric Jameson
Jameson writes from an immense sense of engagement with the world around him, and with faith in what that engagement might accomplish.
Trotsky in Cuba
Like his narrator in The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura has been made to matter less than he should.
Michelle Goldberg Goes to Washington
The problem isn’t just voting for Democrats, it's letting a rightward-moving Democratic Party set the Left’s political horizons.
Vanessa Redgrave at the Oscars
When an Israel boycott showed up on the red carpet.
The Death of American Universities
As universities move towards a corporate business model, precarity is being imposed by force.
Crocodile Tears of the Wolf
The Wolf of Wall Street's eleventh hour Hail Mary doesn't atone for the rest of the film's gleeful celebration of rich assholes.
Grieve to Win
A well-organized grievance campaign can help build teacher unions at the most important level: in the schools.
Retooling the UAW
Even if the UAW had won in Tennessee, another conversation is needed about the kind of organization the union has become.
Chokwe Lumumba: A Revolutionary to the End
Chokwe Lumumba (1947–2014).
Unionize College Football
The Northwestern University football team’s struggle to form a union raises the question of what it means to be a worker.
The Work of Public Work
Going beyond the boundaries of the Ivory Tower is a good thing. But public engagement is still work.