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The Killing of Harith Augustus Shows How Police Violence and Capitalism Are Inextricably Linked

On Chicago police, economic violence and the Black resistance movement.

Aislinn Pulley

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The Police Will Keep Killing Us Until We Stop Criminalizing Blackness and Poverty

The murder of Harith “Snoop” Augustus by Chicago police is the latest reminder that we must hold our elected officials accountable for upholding a system that devalues Black life.

Katelyn Johnson

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Nonunion Workers Can Save Unions. We Just Need to Reimagine How We Collect Dues.

The case for voluntary payroll deductions to donate to unions.

Shaun Richman

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

A conversation with an organizer from Indivisible.

Sarah Jaffe

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Left Candidates Have to Do Better on Palestine

Ocasio-Cortez missed an opportunity to push a left position on Israel. But it's not too late to change that.

Corey Robin

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It’s Time for Unions To Let Go of Exclusive Representation

Janus calls for a radical rethinking of labor law.

James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, and Peter Kellman

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What the Liberal Establishment Gets Wrong About the Trump-Putin Summit

Charges of treason and other reactionary rhetoric build support for a more confrontational—and dangerous—stance towards Russia.

Branko Marcetic

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Given What the U.S. Has Done to the World, It Should Be Letting All Refugees In

The U.S. is slamming the door on people forcibly displaced by American interventions.

Khury Peterson-Smith

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How To End the Tyranny of the Nonunion Workplace

To overcome right to work, we need rights at work.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

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Runaway Empire: Last Year, U.S. Commandos Were Deployed to 75% of World’s Countries

American Special Operations Forces are expanding globally.

Nick Turse

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Bernie Sanders on Labor’s Future and Why Democratic Socialists Keep Winning

An exclusive interview with Sen. Sanders on how labor can respond to Janus, the fight to move the Democratic Party left and the growing popularity of democratic socialism.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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California Democrats Just Stunned Dianne Feinstein By Endorsing Her Left Challenger

On Saturday, the California Democratic Party overwhelmingly backed progressive Senate candidate Kevin de Leon over incumbent Dianne Feinstein, the latest sign yet of a tectonic shift toward the party's left flank.

Theo Anderson

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After Janus, How to Tilt the Balance of Power Back to Workers

There’s a simple fix to Janus’s “free-rider” problem.

Jessica Stites and Aaron Tang

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The NATO Summit Wasn’t a Victory for Trump—It Was a Victory for Militarism

Major media outlets are so focused on Russiagate they are missing the dangerous international military buildup taking place.

Branko Marcetic

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I Couldn’t Help But Wonder…Is Democratic Socialism Catching On?

Sex and the City star and New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon is now a democratic socialist.

Kate Aronoff

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Amazon Is One Step Closer To Taking a Cut on Literally Every Economic Transaction

In a $5.5 billion sweetheart deal, Amazon has inserted itself between local businesses and local governments.

David Dayen

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Scott Pruitt’s Replacement at the EPA, Andrew Wheeler, Could Be Even Worse

Wheeler might be able to navigate his way around the agency more effectively than Pruitt—and therefore do more damage.

Kate Aronoff

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Self-Driving Cars Are Coming. Will They Serve Profit or the Public?

We can reclaim our cities from the auto industry—or we can spend all our lives in traffic.

Angie Schmitt

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Tammy Duckworth Seems To Have Forgotten That Not All Midwesterners Are White

Duckworth said that while left politics are popular in the Bronx, they can't win in the Midwest. She's wrong in more ways than one.

Eli Day

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What We Mean When We Say Abolish ICE

Undocumented communities are demanding an end to devastating detentions, deportation and incarceration—not the transfer of such policies to a different agency.

Sarah Lazare

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Emma Goldman: A New Declaration of Independence

In an essay published in July 1909 in Mother Earth, Goldman—a lifelong radical—reminds readers that all humans were created equal.

Emma Goldman

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Eugene Debs: The Mission of Socialism is Wide as the World

In an Independence Day speech in 1901, socialist leader Eugene Debs declared: "I like the 4th of July. It breathes a spirit of revolution. On this day we reaffirm the ultimate triumph of Socialism. It is coming as certain as I stand in your presence."

Eugene Debs

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As We Celebrate “Independence,” Remember That the U.S. Left Its Colony Puerto Rico to Die

The disastrous impacts of Hurricane Maria were made by inequalities of race, income and access to U.S. political power.

Basav Sen

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Calls to Abolish ICE Were Everywhere at the Massive March Against Immigrant Family Detention

As tens of thousands took to the streets this weekend, many marchers joined the growing demand to defund and dismantle ICE.

Grace Dixon