This spring, 700 New York Times tech workers announced their new union, the Times Tech Guild. We talked with two tech workers involved in the campaign about why they’re organizing at the Gray Lady and why unions are crucial even for well-compensated workers.
During the last century, the Irish state imprisoned a greater share of its population than any other country on Earth: not just for crimes against people or property, but for falling foul of a repressive moral code. The victims are still counting the cost.
Conservatives claim to defend tradition. The truth is, they actually defend domination and illegitimate power over others.
The call to cancel rent won widespread support and helped advance a vision of housing justice we can build off of for years to come.
Centrist pundits and politicians are cheering the new bipartisan infrastructure bill, even though it slashes a range of vital spending programs contained in the original. We don’t need continued fetishization of bipartisanship — we need measures that actually aid the working-class majority.
Exiled from India, anti-colonial activist M. N. Roy charted a revolutionary course that took him everywhere from New York City to Mexico, where he helped found the Mexican Communist Party. His life was the epitome of socialist internationalism.
Today, Poland's hard-right government uses the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 for generic nationalist pageantry. But the real insurrectionaries against the Nazis were sharply divided between those who worked to restore the old elite and those who sought real social change.
Despite continued proclamations that Joe Biden is a transformative president, his agenda has been much more about placating business interests than shifting power to workers.
Almost every assassin involved in the murder of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse was Colombian. That’s no coincidence: if you want mercenaries for hire on the cheap, often trained by the US military, you can find them in spades in Colombia.
NDP provincial governments have some achievements to their credit, but the party’s recent history has been a travesty of what its founders hoped for. Without a bold change of direction toward socialist politics, its future will consist of inexorable decline.
A hundred years since Britain divided Ireland into two states, the momentum for reunification has never been stronger. The Good Friday Agreement provides for a referendum on Irish unity — and it’s time to let the people decide.
Stephanie Gallardo is a union leader and educator running a Seattle Democratic Socialists of America–endorsed campaign for Congress in Washington against a top recipient of money from the military-industrial complex.