Conservatives think we need to resurrect traditional hierarchies to reverse social decline. But what Americans miss about mid-century America isn’t the chauvinistic cultural values — it’s the economic equality created by strong unions and worker power.
A recent report from UAW Region 6 outlines a bold vision for how to expand clean energy industries in California using union labor. It’s an example of how unions can get serious about industrial policy and assert themselves in the “abundance” debate.
Putting full employment at the center of a new left-wing strategy.
12 Years a Slave rightly grounds slavery in economic exploitation, but reflects our era's painful uncertainty about how that exploitation can be opposed.
Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything is a vital book whose limitations should spark discussion about where we go from here.
A low-carbon socialist future is possible.
Today in 1918, Eugene V. Debs delivered the speech that landed him in jail. We reprint it here in full.
In the United States, we have few holidays, work long hours, and barely get vacation and sick days. There is a better way — we can win more free time and the fundamental right to relax from our bosses.
We live in an interwoven, interconnected world where an injury to one is truly an injury to all. We must confront the coronavirus with solidarity and fight for a society where the health of all is more important than profits for a few.
Before being sent to prison for speaking out against World War I, Eugene Debs delivered a defiant speech to the court that decried the ills of capitalism, held out the democratic promise of socialism, and declared, “While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” We reprint it here in full.
Workers have been striking throughout the summer to demand an end to Britain’s cost-of-living crisis that doesn't come at their expense. Expect more such strikes in the very near future.
In the late nineteenth century, French Marxist Paul Lafargue put forward a demand that still resonates nearly a century and a half later: workers have a right to be lazy.
In the US, lawyers gridlock politics, and in China, engineers solely concerned with development steamroll individual liberties. A new book argues that both nations could learn from one another, but their rivalry is obscuring the social crises they share.
The prosperity gospel, in both religious and secular form, is a giant con.
Poorer Americans work long hours to afford basic necessities. Richer Americans work long hours in pursuit of “the good life” that’s perpetually just beyond their grasp. All of this tedious work is a waste of our precious time and resources.
How the socialist left and the anti-Trump Resistance are slowly but surely learning to work together.