Can Federal Workers Stop Trump?
After what has felt like an eternity of Elon Musk and DOGE running rampant across the federal government, federal workers themselves and their unions are now leading the pushback.
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USPS Privatization Would Cost Rural America More Than Mail
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.
Cautionary Tales From the New Left
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.
What Trump’s Decertification of Federal Employee Unions Means
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.
The Government Shutdown: The Public vs. the Billionaires
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.
Nazism’s Political Victims Should Never Be Forgotten
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.
Understanding the Vietnam War Machine
A look at the radical Vietnam-era research collective that exposed US companies profiteering off the war.
The Problems With Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying Policy
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.
Lincoln and Marx
The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.
Heading Off the New Jerusalem
Imagining radical change in Palestine.
Art After Occupy
"The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or slavery."
Against Tipping
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.
Occupy After Occupy
Its critics may disagree, but Occupy Wall Street’s legacy has been an enduring one.
People Who Kill Children
Palestinian children face violence at all turns, yet their hardship is not deemed worthy of attention.
Organizing New York
Mass unionization in the public sector wasn't inevitable. New York labor leader Victor Gotbaum helped make it happen.
America’s First Red Scare
For many of its ideologues, a slaveholding Confederacy was meant to be a bulwark against radical politics of all stripes.
The James Brown Theory of Black Liberation
We shouldn’t reduce historical narratives solely to questions of black agency. It’s bad history — and can lead to even worse politics.
What’s Wrong With Obama’s Clean Power Plan?
Barack Obama promised a transformative presidency on climate change. Environmental justice activists are still waiting.
Nuremberg’s Echoes
It's been 80 years since the Nuremberg Laws were passed. What are the lessons for antifascists today?
Donald Trump: American Psycho
One thing is clear after last night's debate: Donald Trump is the rotten fruit of the American ruling class.