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Labor

Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide

Unions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe and the Mediterranean are calling for an international day of action on October 30.

Sarah Lazare

Politics

Abdul El-Sayed Is In a Fight to Transform the Democratic Party

The Michigan Senate primary between El-Sayed and Haley Stevens is shaping up to be a proxy war in the struggle between the party’s progressive and centrist wings.

Danny Postel

Labor

A 4-Day Work Week Sounds Great. How Do We Get One?

Workers deserve far more time off the job. But getting to a shorter work week will require a labor movement that can wield power to extract such demands.

Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon

Departments

Zombie Coins, Ghost Chains and Other Slop

Some of the latest developments in late capitalism, from a human perspective—never an AI hallucination.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

PalestinePodcast

United Auto Workers Divests From Israel

At the 39th Constitutional Convention, delegates voted to divest $400,000 worth of bonds in historic first.

Maximillian Alvarez

Comics

Trump Keeps Making the Best Deals With Iran... Kind Of

A new comic by Tom Tomorrow

Tom Tomorrow

Comics

The Adventures of Bloodless Quant

Alex Hood

Comics

Trump Is Sleeping Through His War on Iran

A new comic by Jack Ohman

Jack Ohman

Viewpoint

ICE Is Conducting a Reign of Terror

ICE’s indiscriminate violence conveys that nonwhite immigrants, lawful or otherwise, have no place in Trump’s America.

Mitchell Zimmerman

LaborViewpoint

What Amazon Organizers Can Learn From the Fight for 15

Organizers at Amazon can take lessons from the Fight for 15’s success at building pressure through a broad public campaign—and from its failure to really build an organization of, by, and for workers.

Rand Wilson and Peter Olney

Departments

The Big Idea: Publicly Funded Art

Art is how we make sense of ourselves. But the U.S. government, unlike many other countries, is investing in it less and less.

J. Patrick Patterson

LaborViewpoint

Julio Foolio, Unions and “Sweat Equity”

How incarceration and labor are bound together.

Calvin John Smiley

Viewpoint

The Possibilities of Grief as a Rupture

Abolition Judaism and rethinking the holiday of Tisha B’Av

Andrue Kahn and Dania Rajendra

LaborViewpoint

Working People Are Being Fleeced to Pay for a Bloated Military Budget

While costs rise for everything, SNAP recipients who lost benefits—and the farmers who fed them—are being asked to shell out $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon.

Danaka Katovich

Politics

The People Fighting Back: Inside Maine’s Immigrant Defense Movement

An excerpt from 'Breaking ICE' on how Maine became the blueprint for an immigration defense movement that caught fire in the Trump era.

Sonali Kolhatkar

Viewpoint

Don’t Look Away from Cuba

The indictment of Raul Castro is the latest in a string of escalations aimed at building pretext for a U.S. invasion of the island nation.

Chris Mills Rodrigo

InterviewPolitics

How Europe's Economic Collapse Is Fueling the War in Ukraine

A Marxist economist argues that the war in Ukraine cannot be understood without confronting the collapse of European capitalism and the loss of empire.

Richard D. Wolff and Glenn Diesen

LaborPodcast

How Labor Journalists Contend With a Constricted and Polarized Media Landscape

A conversation with Maximillian Alvarez, Hamilton Nolan, Kim Kelly and Alex Press on the state of organized worker’s movements, unions and reporting in the age of AI.

Maximillian Alvarez