Wells Fargo Is Plotting to Privatize the Post Office
A newly released memo from the banking giant Wells Fargo outlines a predatory scheme to dismantle the USPS: sell off profitable parts, slash union jobs, and raise prices by up to 140 percent.
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The Building Trades Want to Save the IRA
The Inflation Reduction Act has helped create good union jobs in the clean energy sector. Republicans want to derail this progress to pay for tax cuts for the rich. The building trades are starting to fight back, and environmentalists should join them.
We Have Been Naught
Chávez performed best in poor districts, worse in rich ones.
How to Think About Falling Birth Rates
The relevance of declining birth rates to left-wing concerns, like welfare-state sustainability, is more complex than generally acknowledged. The real reason for the Left to support pro-family policies is to make families possible for those who want them.
Republicans Are Trying to Block Joe Biden From Declaring a Climate Emergency
Amid extreme heat and wildfires, President Joe Biden could free up disaster relief funds and slash carbon emissions by declaring a climate emergency. But last month, a group of GOP lawmakers introduced a bill to prevent him from making such a declaration.
Down, But Not Out
The Latin American left was on life-support in 1990. A decade later, it was in power.
McCarthyism in the Ivory Tower
Whether the target was communists in the 1950s or pro-Palestine activists today, university administrators have always worked to keep academia in line.
Portland Teachers Are on Strike for the First Time in City History
Pushed to the brink by the COVID-19 pandemic, public school teachers in Portland, Oregon, walked out for the first time ever yesterday, calling for better pay and improved student support.
Democratic Party Leaders Are Asleep at the Wheel
Despite the organizing of thousands of federal workers and a growing grassroots opposition to Donald Trump, the Democratic Party leadership refuses to offer any serious opposition to a billionaire coup.
We Deserve Way, Way More Time Off
There is much more to life than work. We all have families, friends, and a beautiful world to enjoy. We need more time off to enjoy it.
Fredric Jameson and the Adventure of French Theory
After 1945, France produced an extraordinary wave of social theorists whose influence is still felt today. In his final work, Fredric Jameson discussed the excitement of watching this wave rise and fall and the conditions that made it possible.
Capitalism Is Killing Summer
Everybody loves summertime. But from climate change to budget cuts on public spaces like parks and pools to a lack of vacation time, capitalism is increasingly robbing us of our summer fun.
A Transformative Left Needs to Speak for People Outside the Palaces of Government
Left-wing forces in Spain, France, Germany and Greece all recently suffered damaging splits. They each stumbled over a common problem: how to influence institutions while focusing on priorities ignored by the dominant media-political class.
In Australia, Fitness Workers Are Organizing
Last year, instructors at over 150 Fitness First and Goodlife Health Clubs launched a union campaign to halt underpayment, wage cuts by stealth, and deteriorating work conditions. Within a few months, management caved to their demands.
The Power Rangers Set Was a Hotbed of Labor Exploitation
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was awesome and will live in our hearts forever. Sadly, it was also a completely disastrous nonunion workplace where actors were paid pennies, worked to the ground, homophobically bullied, and nearly set on fire.
Two Hurricanes
Why environmentalists’ fear of bigness dooms the developing world.
Israel Has Carried Out Another Civilian Massacre in Gaza
On Saturday, Israel attacked the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza in an effort to recover four Israeli hostages, killing at least 275 Palestinians. Celebrations of the attack by US officials show a grotesquely blatant disregard for Palestinian life.
We Used to Fight Inflation With Boycotts
In 1973, hundreds of thousands of women took to the street to protest dramatic increases in the cost of meat. Grocery prices are growing at a much faster rate than they were 50 years ago. Why don’t we do the same?
Pakistani-Ruled Kashmir Is Facing a Brutal State Crackdown
The areas of Kashmir under Pakistani administration are supposed to have political autonomy, but that has long been a sham. The Pakistani authorities have responded to popular protests demanding real democracy with brutal repression.
When W. E. B. Du Bois Went to the Masses
In 1952, W. E. B. Du Bois began teaching at the Jefferson School of Social Science, an institution of the Communist Party devoted to worker education. The school gave him the opportunity to combine Marxist theory with pan-Africanism and support global anti-racist and anti-colonial struggles.