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Mayday, Mayday, May Day

Friday's emergency signal from the working class.

Maya Ragsdale

LaborViewpoint

Why It’s More Important Than Ever To Learn About May Day

A broad coalition is organizing nationwide actions this May Day to support workers’ rights, protect democracy and demand an end to billionaire rule.

Jackson Potter

InterviewCulture

Ai Weiwei on the “Catastrophic Status Quo” of Censorship

A conversation with the renowned artist on life in exile and his new book

Nick Hilden

Podcast

Citizens Reckon with Industrial Plant Explosion in Rural Louisiana

After an industrial plant explosion from chemical dumping, the government is slow to take action.

Maximillian Alvarez

Dispatch

Radical Booksellers Do More Than Just Retail

Bookstores fight for communities through activism, despite backlash.

J. Patrick Patterson

Podcast

Camping Out a Chemical Giant: Diane Wilson Persists in Hunger Strike for Clean Waters

The fourth-generation fisherwoman from Texas’ Gulf Coast said she won’t let Dow continue to pollute the community’s bays and waterways.

Maximillian Alvarez

Interview

What Organizers Today Can Learn From the Socialist Jewish Labor Bund Movement

Artist and journalist Molly Crabapple discusses the lessons she learned while writing her new book “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund.”

Shane Burley

LaborPodcast

Community Persists for USPS Letter Carriers While Conditions Worsen

USPS mail carriers strive to hold onto community relationships as a contract battle looms for the struggling service.

Maximillian Alvarez

ViewpointCover Story

The Rupture at Hand

Facing down a billionaire-backed authoritarian blitz, the Left isn't waiting for Democratic elites to join step with the party's base.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

LaborInvestigation

After Decades of Quiet Rumbling, an Epidemic Is Erupting Among California Stoneworkers

The engineered stone industry is worth nearly $30 billion. But the workers at its core are falling sick and dying from an illness called silicosis. Now these workers—most of whom are young immigrants—are suing manufacturers.

Kayla Yup

Culture

Iranian Culture Will Not Be Erased

Trump said a “whole civilization will die tonight.” We can’t be destroyed so easily.

Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel

DispatchRural America

Rural Kentucky Tenants Win Unprecedented Lease Agreement After Yearlong Campaign

How tenants in four federally-backed buildings in the South overcame intense retaliation and won a new contract from their out-of-state landlord.

Thomas Birmingham

Viewpoint

We Need To Tax the Corporations Cashing In On the Iran War

Across the political spectrum, Americans support taxing windfall profits—and billionaires—to help working people weather the affordability crisis.

Meghan Schneider and Cass DiPaola

Departments

The Big Idea: Guerrilla Theater

Alongside protests against raids and deportations, small actions of absurdist disruption can also prove to expose the raw violence of those in power.

J. Patrick Patterson

ViewpointFeature

As Workers Struggle, Our Political Class Goes All In On a Permanent War State

From blood banks to food insecurity, a snapshot of a country whose raison d'etre is increasingly open sadism and violence

Sarah Lazare

Viewpoint

To Tax the Ultra-Rich, We Need to Go After Their Wealth—Not Just Income

Two proposals—one in California, one in Congress—could finally do it. The alternative is an ever-more-powerful billionaire class that threatens democracy itself.

Conor Lynch

ViewpointPalestine

Salah Sarsour: A Pillar Taken, A Community That Will Not Yield

Dr. Hatem Bazian on ICE's abduction of a beloved community member who played a major role in the local Palestine movement—and how he may have been wrongly targeted because of it.

Dr. Hatem Bazian

LaborViewpoint

Voters Trust Union Candidates More—So Unions Should Run Them

A new report shows that candidates with backgrounds in labor unions can win the support of working people. The Democratic Party should take note.

Jake Triola