Rural postal workers don’t just deliver mail. They put out fires, help elderly people who’ve fallen, and ensure veterans receive medication during storms. Trump’s proposed USPS privatization threatens these care networks in areas already lacking services.
In a new memoir, New Left leader Michael Ansara wants to impart lessons from his own time as a campus activist to today’s protesters. But his later role in a corruption scandal that set back Teamsters reform for decades offers its own cautionary lessons.
The Trump administration moved ahead last week with its plans to void the collective bargaining agreements covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The labor movement appears largely quiescent in the face of this historic union busting.
Federal workers say public goods are being used as bargaining chips in a billionaire power grab. With the government shut down, the Federal Unionists Network is telling congresspeople to hold the line.
Hitler’s forces killed almost a million civilians because of their political affiliation — most of them socialists and communists. Yet official commemoration in Germany and beyond rarely grants proper recognition to the Nazi mass murder of worker-militants.
A look at the radical Vietnam-era research collective that exposed US companies profiteering off the war.
Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying program seemed like a step forward for choice and dignity. But it is beginning to look like a dystopian end run around the cost of providing social welfare that can beat back the deprivations that make life unbearable.
The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.
Imagining radical change in Palestine.
"The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or slavery."
So long as the karmic tip jar clouds our perceptions, the insane injustice of an underpaid labor force reimbursed through only the guilty feelings of their coworkers will persist.
Its critics may disagree, but Occupy Wall Street’s legacy has been an enduring one.
Palestinian children face violence at all turns, yet their hardship is not deemed worthy of attention.
Mass unionization in the public sector wasn't inevitable. New York labor leader Victor Gotbaum helped make it happen.
For many of its ideologues, a slaveholding Confederacy was meant to be a bulwark against radical politics of all stripes.
We shouldn’t reduce historical narratives solely to questions of black agency. It’s bad history — and can lead to even worse politics.
Barack Obama promised a transformative presidency on climate change. Environmental justice activists are still waiting.
It's been 80 years since the Nuremberg Laws were passed. What are the lessons for antifascists today?
One thing is clear after last night's debate: Donald Trump is the rotten fruit of the American ruling class.
Donald Trump speaks to an aggrieved and radicalized middle class with seemingly nowhere else to turn.