Sarah Jaffe - In These Times

Sarah Jaffe is a writer and reporter living in New Orleans and on the road. She is the author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone; Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt, and her latest book is From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire, all from Bold Type Books. Her journalism covers the politics of power, from the workplace to the streets, and her writing has been published in The Nation, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and many other outlets. She is a columnist at The Progressive and In These Times. She also co-hosts the Belabored podcast, with Michelle Chen, covering today’s labor movement, and Heart Reacts, with Craig Gent, an advice podcast for the collapse of late capitalism. Sarah has been a waitress, a bicycle mechanic, and a social media consultant, cleaned up trash and scooped ice cream and explained Soviet communism to middle schoolers. Journalism pays better than some of these. You can follow her on Twitter @sarahljaffe.

The Movement Supporting Public Employees Is Rising

Thousands of workers across the country hit the streets this week to declare their opposition to Trump and Musk who, under the guise of "efficiency," are slashing and burning public services.

Federal Workers Rise up Against Musk, Trump and Drastic Cuts

"These guys are trying to take a torch to the entire concept that we should care about each other as humans.”

In the Wake of Bourbon Street Attack, the Super Bowl Arrives in New Orleans—and so Does a Major Strike

Nurses at University Medical Center are walking off the job Wednesday and Thursday in a strike designed to maximize impact just ahead of the big game.

Amid Lots of Bad News for Working People, a Win in New Orleans Offers Hope

The Workers' Bill of Rights—supported by more than 80% of voters—is the latest tool to reduce labor exploitation.

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“You Have To Shake Up the Status Quo”: Marilyn Sneiderman’s Struggle To Transform Labor

“Marilyn stands out as a leader who not only recruited disruptors but spent a lot of her time and effort trying to figure out how to defend and maintain the space for disruptors.”

The Hidden Human Labor Behind AI

A discussion with Craig Gent and James Muldoon about the colonial history of tech infrastructure, its human and environmental costs, and how workers around the world are fighting back.

After Historic Chattanooga Win, the UAW Is Bargaining for Better Conditions at Volkswagen

Volkswagen workers and the United Auto Workers are hoping a contract with the automaker can reverberate across the South.

"Grief Is a Rupture": Sarah Jaffe's New Book on Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire

In her new book "From the Ashes" In These Times columnist Sarah Jaffe examines the intersections between grief and organizing for a better world.

The Minnesota Model Is Transforming Organizing as We Know It

“We can win more together than we can on our own.”

Keir Starmer Is Very Serious About the Status Quo

The UK's new Prime Minister, elected on July 4, won't touch the structures that helped him ascend to power—and that hold most working people in Britain down.

"We are New Orleans”: A Workers’ Bill of Rights Finds Common Ground

“When we came up with the Workers' Bill of Rights, it wasn't just for one group, it was for all."

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Students, Gaza and a New Vision of Safety

"We Keep Us Safe" is more than a slogan at student encampments. It inspires an avenue to protection and community that undercuts a security state bolstered by genocide—and can show us all a path forward.

Tennessee's Governor Subverted Police Reforms After the Killing of Tyre Nichols

State Sen. London Lamar called it “a slap in the face.” It's part of a national pattern of attacks on democracy.

In Tough Loss, the High-Profile UAW Campaign at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama Falls Short

“This is probably the most strategic and organized union busting campaign in decades,” said one Mercedes-Benz worker.

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Una Semana Laboral De 32 Horas Es Nuestra Para Tomarla

La lucha por jornadas laborales más cortas puede unir a los trabajadores.

A 32-Hour Workweek Is Ours for the Taking

The fight for shorter hours can unify workers everywhere.

Brenda Johnson de la Federación de Maestros de Minneapolis Local 59 y Eva López de SEIU Local 26 en una reunión en octubre de 2023 donde muchos de los grupos comunitarios y sindicatos alineados alrededor de la fecha límite de hoy del 2 de marzo elaboraron estrategias sobre la mejor manera de aprovechar su poder colectivo.

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La Historia Laboral Más Importante en Este Momento Está en Minnesota. Podría Ser El Modelo Que Todos Necesitamos.

Una alineación estratégica de redes de sindicatos y grupos comunitarios en Minnesota ha trabajado durante más de una década para aprovechar su poder colectivo.

The Most Important Labor Story Right Now Is in Minnesota—It Might Be the Model We All Need

A strategic alignment of major networks of unions and community groups in Minnesota have worked together for more than a decade to leverage their collective power.

A Long History of Antifascism Is Driving the Jewish Demand for Gaza Cease-Fire

Crystallizing the deep history of antifascist Jewish resistance, progressive Jews across the United States marked the final night of Chanukah by shutting down bridges in at least eight cities.

The Hard Head and Wild Heart of Barbara Ehrenreich

Revisiting Nickel and Dimed, Dancing in the Streets, and many more of the late author's groundbreaking books.

This Valentine’s Day, Let’s Look to Marxists to Reimagine Love, Romance and Sex

It's not you, it's capitalism.

Against Loving Your Job

"We need a politics of time. A political understanding that our lives are ours to do with what we will."

Will Dems Fight the Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh? Organizers Are Pushing Chuck Schumer To Act.

A conversation with an organizer from Indivisible.

What the Supreme Court’s Week of Hell Means for People of Color

An Immigration Lawyer Explains What’s Really Happening with Family Separation

A conversation with Eve Stotland, director of legal services for The Door.

Why These Immigrants Are Shutting Their City Down This May Day

Arizona Teachers Are Prepared to Strike to Fix the Education Crisis Themselves

Jane McAlevey: We Can Beat Trump, But We Need More Than Big Marches

Keith Ellison: The Time Has Come for Medicare-for-All and a Maximum Wage

Let’s Challenge Corporate Democrats and Fight for a Universal Jobs Guarantee

Women Across the Globe Are Planning to Strike on March 8. Here’s Why.

How Organizers in Rural North Carolina Plan To Build Working-Class Power in 2018

“We Will Be Out in the Streets”: What’s Next in the Fight Against the GOP Tax Bill

Grad Students Take Tax Bill Fight to Paul Ryan’s Office

These Mainers Aren’t Ready To Give Up on Flipping Susan Collins’ Tax Vote

A conversation with Mike Tipping of the Maine People's Alliance.

The Tax Bill Battle Shows the Left Needs a “Single Payer of Fiscal Policy”

A conversation with Michael Kink, executive director of the Strong Economy for All Coalition.

How Democratic Socialists Took On Centrists and the Right Wing at the Ballot Box

David Duhalde, deputy director of the Democratic Socialists of America, discusses the group's recent electoral success—and what they have planned for 2018.

Here’s Why Chicago Activists Are Against Rahm Emanuel’s $95 Million Cop Academy

A conversation with Monica Trinidad, a Chicago-based artist and organizer.

What the South Can Teach the Rest of the Country About Resisting the Right

A conversation with organizers of the Southern Movement Assembly, a convergence of bottom-up organizations rooted in Black struggle.

If Berniecrats Were British: How Jeremy Corbyn’s Momentum Won the Soul of the Labour Party

Momentum continues to play a central role in organizing the Left in the U.K.’s Labour party.

From “Me Too” to “All of Us”: Organizing to End Sexual Violence, Without Prisons

To transform the conditions of sexual violence, we must not rely on violent systems of incarceration.

After Maria, Vulture Firms Are Trying to Bleed Puerto Rico Dry. They Must Be Stopped.

Jonathan Westin of New York Communities for Change discusses why Puerto Rico's debt needs to be canceled.

The Left Needs Its Own Shock Doctrine for Puerto Rico

Socialism and Faygo: Why the DSA Is Down for the Struggalo

A conversation with Allison Hrabar of Metro D.C. DSA.

After Member Is Deported, New York Teamsters Declare Themselves Sanctuary Union

The Left’s Long History of Militant Resistance to Fascism

A conversation with historian Mark Bray about the origins of modern anti-fascist movements.

The Attack on DACA Is About Racism. Period.

A conversation with the young people on the front lines of Trump's crackdown.

In Hurricane-Ravaged Texas, Immigrant Justice Fight Offers Glimmer of Hope

A conversation with Austin city councilman Greg Casar.

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