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LaborFeatureLabor Organizer of the Year
Braving a Campaign of Terror: Unnamed
One of this year's Labor Organizer of Year awardees is anonymous. As one of the many immigrant labor leaders braving the risk of deportation, hers is a case study in how Trump is terrorizing immigrants.
Maurizio Guerrero

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Building Bridges and Erasing Jail Debt: Katherine Passley
The winner of our Labor Organizer of the Year Award co-runs a member-led worker center in Miami for people with criminal records and their families — the first organization of its kind in the country.
Kim Kelly

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The Education of a Teamster Rebel: Antonio Rosario
The winner of our Labor Organizer of the Year Award brings the tough love of a 30-year Teamster to the Amazon organizing effort.
Luis Feliz Leon

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Grocery Workers VS Goliath
Kroger and Albertsons tried to merge; union organizing stopped them. But the fight for grocery workers is just beginning.
Sarah Lazare

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Against Trump, For the Common Good: What Chicago Teachers Won in Their Latest Contract
The Chicago Teachers Union has long taken on neoliberal Democrats and won. Their latest contract is a victory against the new Trump administration, leaders say.
Kari Lydersen

FeaturePalestine
"It Is Neither Death, Nor Suicide"
Gaza’s Declaration of Life—and Living
Jehad Abusalim

FeatureInterview
Now Is the Time for Big Ideas
A post-inauguration roundtable hosted by Haymarket Books with Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the dismantling of the administrative state and the path to corporate takeover accompanying it
Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Chenjerai Kumanyika

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Why Trump's Tariffs Are a Losing Bet to Keep China at Bay and Remake the Global Order
Trump's plans around tariffs and annexation resemble a new Monroe Doctrine, but it’s a recipe that only leads to economic collapse—and war.
Tobita Chow

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My Family Was Almost “Repatriated” to Mexico in the 1930s. I See It Happening Again.
The pressure to “self-deport,” driven by Trump’s threats and rising White nationalism, echoes a dark chapter of U.S. history.
Nyki Duda

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The Myth of Pentagon Budget Cuts
As Trump and Musk slash social spending, military spending is set to soar.
Stephen Semler and Sarah Lazare

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The Fourth Wall
Recently, reports of illegal “pushbacks”–an illegal practice of forcibly returning refugees from whence they came–in Greece have soared. Tommy Olsen faces years in prison for documenting pushbacks online.
Lauren Markham

FeaturePolitics
Kings of Capital
The pathological personalization of power is at the core of the far Right’s rise.
Alberto Toscano

FeatureElection 2024
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

FeatureElection 2024
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

FeatureInvestigation
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

LaborFeatureRural America
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

FeatureCulture
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

FeatureInvestigation
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

FeatureInvestigation
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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