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Viewpoint

Empire of Extortion

The abduction of Venezuela’s president and the plunder of its oil signal a new and dangerous phase in U.S. foreign policy.

Alberto Toscano

DepartmentsPolitics

I Love You, Madame Librarian

Kurt Vonnegut expresses admiration for one of the last promising places in America for people to feel: libraries and the people who work there.

In These Times Editors

LaborPalestine

The U.S. Workers Who Went on Strike for Gaza

How one UAW local pulled off a mass strike in solidarity with the Gaza protest encampments, and in opposition to the US-Israeli slaughter of Palestinians.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

A Staggering Number of Minnesotans Took to the Streets Friday to Demand ICE Leave. The Next Day, ICE Responded by Killing Another Resident.

Saturday morning marked the third shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis this month. “How many more Americans need to die for this operation to end?” said Mayor Jacob Frey.

Thomas Birmingham and Ari Bloomekatz

LaborViewpoint

"ICE Is Made Up of a Bunch of Cowards"

Artist Margaret Vail Palmquist eviscerates ICE in a series of illustrations over its abduction of a 5-year-old in the Minneapolis area earlier in the week.

Margaret Vail Palmquist

Labor

“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE

Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

Sarah Lazare

LaborInterview

“No Work. No Spending": Minnesota Workers Strike Today to Protest ICE

A critical conversation with Minnesota union leaders about a massive general strike that begins on Friday, January 23.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborDispatch

How One Minnesota Union Is Helping Members Survive the Federal Siege

UNITE HERE Local 17 is one of many unions, community organizations and faith groups calling for a work stoppage tomorrow, showing a key way Minnesotans are organizing against ICE.

Sarah Lazare

ViewpointCulture

Read This If You're New and Trying to Find Your Way

Abolitionist organizer and author Mariame Kaba offers youth living through the current crises a renewed perspective on how to move forward.

Mariame Kaba

LaborViewpoint

Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now

At first glance it sounds impossible — but a strategic look back at the coordinated strikes and militancy of the past two decades shows we might be much closer than we think.

Alex Han

LaborViewpointFeature

Capitalism Without Humans

As new technologies (not immigrants) replace human labor, "machine breaking" as a tactic of rebellion is taking on a renewed vitality.

Sarah Jaffe

LaborViewpoint

"We Will Be Closed: ICE Out of Minnesota"

All the ingredients for a general strike are present in Minnesota.

Luis Feliz Leon

ViewpointFeature

Want to Fight Fascism? Look to U.S. History.

What Reconstruction, the New Deal and the Rainbow Coalition can teach us about building the broadest possible front to fight the authoritarian Right

Rishi Awatramani

Viewpoint

“Always More Than a Label”: 8 Ways to Be Like King for the Struggle Today—Coretta Scott King, That Is

Jeanne Theoharis

Comics

Welcome to the New Season Of "Keeping up With the Broligarchs"

The latest comics curated by Matt Bors

Attacking Iran Is No Way to Support Iranian Protests

Trump’s military threats only embolden Iran's leaders to crack down. The best way to support protestors is through diplomacy.

David Vine

LaborDispatch

“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days

Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on January 23.

Amie Stager and Sarah Lazare

LaborPodcast

Workers Win As Longest Running Strike In The US Ends

After a lengthy legal process, the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals decisively sided with striking journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Maximillian Alvarez