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“I Love Chicago. I’m Gonna Fight to Stay Here.”
Jeanette Taylor is a community activist on Chicago’s South Side running for city council. In an interview, Taylor explains why she participated in a month-long hunger strike to reopen a school, how to fight inequality in the city, and her vision for a working-class Chicago.
Seth Anderson-Oberman Wants to Bring Working-Class Politics to Philadelphia’s City Council
Philadelphia voters head to the polls today. All eyes are on progressive mayoral challenger Helen Gym. But longtime union organizer Seth Anderson-Oberman is also part of a suite of left-wing challengers on the city council.
Why Bernie Won the California Primary
Bernie Sanders didn’t win California because it’s a liberal bastion and he's “extremely liberal.” He won it because the state’s working class is tired of the bipartisan, pro-corporate agenda that threatens to transform California into a social dystopia — and they’re ready to fight back.
Kathy Hochul Is a Good Problem for Zohran Mamdani to Have
Zohran Mamdani’s endorsement of Gov. Kathy Hochul doesn’t sit well with some on the Left. But Mamdani can’t succeed without delivering for working-class New Yorkers and can’t deliver without navigating difficult terrain with centrists like her.
Class Struggle Was a Crucial Part of the American Revolution
The American Revolution was linked to a surge of working-class political activity on both sides of the Atlantic. The struggle against British rule unfolded in tandem with another struggle over who would dominate the post-independence US.
Austerity Has Always Been a Project to Empower Capital at the Expense of Workers
Austerity policies originated with efforts by economic elites to crush working-class power and redistribute income upward after World War I. That history demonstrates the need for democratic control over economic policy to defend workers’ interests.
George Clooney’s The Tender Bar Needs More Bar, Less Yale
With Ben Affleck playing a lovable bartender and surrogate father, The Tender Bar has its charms, but it stalls out with familiar tropes about working-class kids getting the hell out of the old neighborhood.
A Rebirth of Hope
Whether Corbyn wins or loses, we're seeing a rebirth of working-class radicalism in Britain that will not end today.
Boys and Men in the United States Are Struggling. The Left Should Talk About It.
From being less likely to graduate from college to experiencing much higher rates of “deaths of despair,” men and boys in the US — especially working-class men and boys — are suffering.
Sweden’s Welfare State Was a Product of Class Struggle
Swedish Social Democracy is often idealized as a benign reformist force that delivered welfare to the grateful masses. Yet the Swedish social model was the product of conflict — and a working-class radicalism that the Social Democrats have now turned against.
The Working-Class Cinematic Legacy of Film Noir
In the stiflingly reactionary cultural atmosphere of postwar America, most filmmakers didn’t talk much about class. But there was one significant exception: film noir was the most class-conscious genre of motion picture America has ever produced.
Public Power Can Save Canada’s NDP
Canada’s NDP, increasingly out of step with its working-class base, recently suffered its worst defeat since its founding. Rebuilding support will mean reviving the industrial ambition that once defined the party’s approach to energy and public ownership.
James Talarico’s Win Shows the Promise of a Class Message
James Talarico prevailed in yesterday’s Democratic Senate primary in Texas with an economic populist message tailored to working-class voters. His campaign points toward the kind of politics that stand a chance of beating MAGA, even in Trump country.
The Chicago Teachers Union’s Karen Lewis Dared Us to Believe We Could Win
At a time of austerity and teacher demonization, Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis — whose death at age sixty-seven was announced today — dared to believe that educators and the working class as a whole could fight back and win.
The Debt Ceiling Crisis Is Laying Bare the Lies Both Parties Tell Their Voters
Democrats want you to believe their commander-in-chief is an ultraprogressive master negotiator. The GOP wants you to believe they’re a newly reborn party of the working class. The never-ending debt ceiling standoff reveals just how absurd both tales are.
Philadelphia’s Vanishing Affordable Housing
Philadelphia's becoming a developer's paradise. But working-class residents aren't leaving without a fight.
Can an Economic Populist Win Maine’s Governor Race?
It’s not just Graham Platner. In Maine’s gubernatorial race, logger and labor leader Troy Jackson is mounting an economic populist campaign that promises to build bridges between urban progressives and rural working-class voters.
Tucker Carlson, Your Boss’s Favorite “Populist”
Tucker Carlson likes to style himself a populist. But every time there’s a fight over something that might actually make life easier for working-class people, he never misses the opportunity to take the side of big business and the rich.
We Need a Left-Labor Presidential Candidate
Beating Donald Trump isn’t enough, argue the Democratic Socialists of America’s cochairs. A united left-labor campaign in 2028 could mobilize millions, challenge Democratic Party failure, and put a working-class program on the national stage.