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School of Hard Knocks

What the Left learned from a bruising election.

Henry Hicks IV

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How the LA Tenants Union Fights Displacement with Community

Lessons from a decade of building tenant power

Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis

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Why Didn't the Progressive Movement Challenge Kamala Harris?

Recreating the #Resistance of the first Trump administration with such a fragile coalition will be a monumental task.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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The New College Gambit

The right-wing takeover of Florida’s public honors college blurs the line between tragedy and farce, but attacks on universities are about to get worse.

Kathryn Joyce

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Southern Workers Prepare For An Uphill Battle Under Trump

For too long, the labor movement ignored the South. Today, Southern workers are taking on entrenched racism, right-to-work laws and the incoming Trump administration as they organize for their rights.

Stephen Franklin

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Rehearsing the Future

A festival of healing justice models how we practice revolutionary care and liberation.

Panthea Lee (李佩珊)

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Chicago Teachers Have an Ally As Mayor—Now They’re Fighting for a Historic Contract

The Chicago Teachers Union is working to use its newfound political power to win a broad set of “common good” demands while realizing a vision of world-class public education.

Kari Lydersen

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As Corporate Landlords Spread, a Mold Epidemic Takes Root

Chronic mold has become an epidemic as severe as lead paint, but neither cities nor landlords are taking responsibility.

Thomas Birmingham

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Wasteland Warriors

“I showed up for East Palestine because I realized we are not alone.”

Maximillian Alvarez and Molly Crabapple

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June Jordan on Palestine and American Delusions

In these excerpts of "Life After Lebanon" and "Waking Up in the Middle of Some American Dreams," June Jordan insists on the ever-present need for coalition building across difference.

Sherell Barbee and June Jordan

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Toni Morrison on Fascism and Censorship

In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.

Sherell Barbee and Toni Morrison

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The Treacherous Paths Out of Modi's India

The last thing Sukhwinder Singh remembered was crossing through knee-deep water near the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Arizona. When he finally awoke, he learned that his passage to the land of opportunity had cost him an arm and both legs.

Makepeace Sitlhou

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A "Sustainable Square Mile" Tests the Power of Biden's Billions for Climate Justice

Can $3 billion in hyperlocal funding for environmental justice create lasting change?

Adam Mahoney

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As All Eyes Are on Chicago This Week, Don't Forget What This City is About

A pivotal teachers’ strike, decades of movement building, and a surprising mayoral victory: Chicago organizers built a mass movement that has transformed the city. A roundtable with Alex Han, Katelyn Johnson, Asha Ransby-Sporn, Jesse Sharkey, Tania Unzueta and J. Patrick Patterson.

J. Patrick Patterson

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How to Listen to Michigan at the DNC in Chicago

From Dearborn to Benton Harbor, working people in the Great Lakes State are building progressive power. One of the efforts that emerged transformed into the Uncommitted national movement.

Eman Abdelhadi

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The Minnesota Model Is Transforming Organizing as We Know It

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

Sarah Jaffe

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875,000 Veterans, $382 Million in Medical Debt

When you’re 72 years old, disabled and a $108,094 notice lands in your mailbox—along with the number for a veterans suicide hotline.

Rory Fanning

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Who Would Want to Grow Old Only to Grow Poor?

Seniors are increasingly in debt and facing financial crises at levels not seen since the Great Depression. The mass movement that fought for seniors 100 years ago under the banner of the Townsend Plan could be a model for solving the growing crisis now.

Eleni Schirmer

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"You Are Not A Loan!" Introducing the Nation's First Debtors' Union

Debtors’ unions, in solidarity with labor unions and tenants unions, are the organizing formations we need to dismantle genocidal racial capitalism.

Hannah Appel and Astra Taylor

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The Future of Housing Organizing: Tenant Unions

The only answer to our housing crises is collective action. A growing movement of tenant unions promises a new front in the struggle for our homes.

Rose Lenehan and Tara Raghuveer

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What Is the World We Are Imagining Beyond Debt?

A special roundtable on debt abolition and racial capitalism—and how we can organize for a future beyond accumulation. Featuring Stacy Davis Gates, Alex Han, Robin G. Kelley, René Moya and Derecka Purnell.

Jalil Mustaffa Bishop

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The Library Is a Commons

A socialist former president of the American Library Association on why defending libraries is fighting capitalism.

Emily Drabinski

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The Crackdown on Campus Protests is Just Beginning

At least a dozen colleges and universities have changed their policies to make it harder to protest the war on Gaza. More may follow this summer.

Adam Federman

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The Fight to Bring Chicago Home Isn’t Over

A majority of residents didn’t back the measure to fund housing services by taxing the rich—but organizers are already preparing for the next round.

Kari Lydersen