Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee
Giving everyone a job is the best way to democratize the economy and give workers leverage in the workplace.
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COVID-19 Should Be a Wake-Up Call for Feminists
The suffering of women during the coronavirus pandemic illuminates where feminists need to push harder. Medicare for All, free higher education and a living wage, and a housing and job guarantee would go far in giving women the autonomy necessary to protect themselves and their children.
No, Janus Is Not a Trojan Horse
Janus is an assault on unions, full stop. But worker militancy can overcome bad labor law.
LA Stadium Workers Won the Right to Strike Over ICE
Wielding the leverage of scheduled World Cup matches, concessions workers at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles won the right to strike if ICE poses a threat to their safety. The victory comes amid other World Cup–related worker contract wins across the US.
You Can’t Fake It
A general strike could transform American politics. But we're nowhere near being able to call one.
Can I Talk to a Manager?
Liberals believe in a society ordered like a restaurant: some eat, some serve, and there is a manager to keep it all going.
Harvard Wants to Save the Working Class
The burning task for the labor movement isn't to craft new pro-worker laws, but to build working-class power. Pro-worker legislation comes from workers flexing their muscles, not the other way around.
Medicare for All and Free College Tuition Are Wildly Popular Policies
New polling shows that socialists' demands like Medicare for All and free college tuition are overwhelmingly popular. We can’t stop now.
US Out of Syria
We should oppose the ongoing, disastrous US intervention in Syria without reservation.
Lessons From the Anti-Austerity Movement
The anti-Trump movement will only be successful if it takes stock of the struggles that came before it.
Bernie Sanders Was Right to Talk About Wage Slavery. We Should Talk About It, Too.
When Bernie Sanders compared wage labor to slavery in the 1970s, he wasn't equating the two. He was drawing on an emancipatory tradition, encompassing everyone from Frederick Douglass to Eugene Debs, that sees wage labor as shot through with subjugation — and insists on the need to democratize the workplace.
Golden Dawn on Trial
The criminal trials against Golden Dawn are crucial to defeating fascism in Greece.
Profiting Off Misery
Private prisons today are nothing more than a return to the monstrous rackets of the past.
The Zone Defense
What we need isn’t exclusionary zoning, inclusionary zoning, upzoning, downzoning, a zoning freeze, or no zoning at all. We need an anticapitalist planning movement.
Bono Kills the Planet
Rock concerts can’t stop the ice sheets from melting.
Resisting the Bombing
There are no “humanitarian” wars. There are only wars.
Against Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Clinton might run for office. Rethink this.
“Get Off My Lawn” Goes Digital
Home surveillance apps like Ring and community social networks like Nextdoor aren't making anyone safer. They're allowing paranoid jerks to harass their neighbors.
Governments and Corporations Have Deemed Immigrant Workers Expendable During the Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed a deep contradiction at the heart of the US economy: immigrant labor is more essential than ever, yet immigrant workers continue to be under vicious attack by the government.