Maximillian Alvarez is editor-in-chief at the Real News Network and host of the podcast Working People, available at InThe​se​Times​.com. He is also the author of The Work of Living: Working People Talk About Their Lives and the Year the World Broke.

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How to Make the Left More Attractive
A conversation with author and journalist, Michael Brooks.
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There’s Room for Solidarity Between the Working Class and Progressive Professionals
Max and his brother Zak talk about meritocracy, work in the corporate world, and that feeling in your gut that most of what you do is pointless.
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Fired from Dollar General for Speaking Out About Unsafe Conditions
A conversation with Daniel Stone, a former employee of Dollar General in Nashville
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Class Traitors, Welcome to the Revolution
Many liberal professionals who supported Elizabeth Warren took their votes to Joe Biden, not Bernie Sanders. But they may still join a future left electoral coalition if they can face their own precarity.
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How to Unionize During Covid-19
Aminah Sheikh, a labor organizer with Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, talks about how to mobilize workers in the midst of a pandemic.
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Do Charter Schools’ “Core Values” Apply to Workers?
A conversation with MacKenna Alvarez, a middle-school teacher in New York City.
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Workers Are Fighting for Their Lives on May Day. They Deserve to Be Heard.
A conversation with Adam Ryan, a Target worker in Virginia and liaison for Target Workers Unite.
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“We Keep Us Safe”: Working and Organizing in a Pandemic
Workers speak from the front-lines of the pandemic.
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“We Are Essential”: Voices from the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Crisis
These are the voices of the people living, working and fighting through this crisis.
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Why Instacart Workers Went On Strike
A conversation with gig worker and labor organizer, Vanessa Bain.
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Some Thoughts On Our Breaking World
A conversation with Tom Sexton of the Trillbilly Worker's Party podcast.
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Workers Have a Birthright to Tell Our Own Stories
A conversation with activist and oral historian Candace Wolf about her self-published book of interviews with workers all over the world.
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A Union Nurse and Tenant Activist Eyes the New York Assembly
A conversation with Phara Souffrant Forrest.
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Journalists, Artists and Musicians on the Joys and Pains of Freelance Labor
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