What Black Life Actually Looks Like
For too long, the Left has organized based on caricatures of black political life. If it wants to win, it needs to start recognizing the role of class in black America.
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With Their Wildcat Strike, NBA Players Have Pointed the Way Forward
Despite its outcome, this week’s NBA wildcat strike provided a crucial lesson for all of us: we have to disrupt owners’ profits and engage in collective action if we have any hope of making change.
Remembering Harry Hay
Harry Hay would have been 105 this month. His life and work as a gay man and a Communist helped lay the foundations of the modern LGBTQ movement.
The Anti-BDS Smear Campaign Escalates
For years, well-funded pro-Israel vigilantes have been harassing Palestine activists. Now they’re enlisting the FBI.
There’s Still Power in a Strike
If workers refuse to work, the bosses can't produce anything. If soldiers refuse to fight, the generals can't wage wars. That's the power of a strike.
Capitalism Made Gay Identity Possible. Now We Must Destroy Capitalism.
Gay identity became possible thanks to capitalism’s emancipatory side: its liberation of the individual from material dependence on the family. But that sexual freedom wasn’t automatic — it required decades of militant struggle. Today, we need more such struggles to combat the oppressive aspects of capitalism, which keep gay and straight people alike from living fully free lives.
Bernie Sanders’s Five-Year War
How he lost and where we go from here.
“The Police Know Guerrilla Warfare”
The violent state of US policing cannot be understood apart from the country’s Cold War crusade. During those decades, cops at home and military personnel abroad exchanged techniques and tactics to mete out repression and thwart leftist insurgencies.
Taking the Fight to CUNY
The City University of New York system has been ravaged by austerity. Educators have gone on strike throughout the country, but CUNY employees are hamstrung by anti-strike laws. CUNY’s biggest union wants to change that.
Teamster Insurgents Are Preparing to Unseat Their Union’s Old Guard
Organizing Amazon, holding the line against UPS — the Teamsters are at the center of key struggles in American labor. Which makes the outcome of their leadership election, in which reformers are vying to unseat the old guard, particularly crucial.
American Authoritarianism Runs Deeper Than Trump
In response to the nationwide protests, Donald Trump seems ready to take the United States to a place many have been fearing since his election. Escaping from it means recognizing that he didn’t get us there alone.
To Break the Power of the Police, We Need to Mobilize the Power of Labor
In the past, radical-led unions have been at the forefront of the struggle against police brutality. Unions must step up and do the same today — because racial justice movements can’t win radical reforms without the institutional power of organized workers.
Organizing to Win a Green New Deal
The labor movement has to be central to winning a Green New Deal and reversing climate change. Recent labor victories show how we can do just that, from the ground up, and quickly.
Elon Musk Is Not the Future
Tech CEOs are out for themselves, not the public good.
Class Struggle at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Classical musicians aren’t normally associated with picket lines, but the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is now on strike. We spoke to three strikers about their grueling work, recent attacks on orchestra members’ pensions and salaries, and the intersection of classical music and the labor movement.
Today Is Our Day
This May Day, we should celebrate the historic triumphs of the labor movement and the struggles to come.
No More Saturday Marches
The brilliance of strikes and stoppages like the Day Without Immigrants and the Women's Strike lies in organizers' willingness to halt business as usual.
The Olympic War on Drugs
The ban on performance-enhancing drugs is fueled by moral panic, not medicine.
The Pittsburgh Fairy Tale
Pittsburgh's much-touted revival has remade the region for the wealthy while leaving workers and the poor behind.
Kyle Kulinski Speaks, the Bernie Bros Listen
He introduced Bernie to Joe Rogan. His show Secular Talk dominates YouTube. He even helped get AOC elected. So why doesn’t the media know who Kyle Kulinski is?