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Labor
Why Is Earth Day So Much More Popular Than Workers Memorial Day?
Mike Elk

Labor
Anti-Union Forces Try to Knock Out New York City’s Hard Hats
Michelle Chen

Labor
United Front: Labor, Immigrant Rights Movements See Converging Future
Rose Arrieta
Help Expose Secret Corporate Campaign Contributions
Joel Bleifuss
Weekly Mulch: Greening the Royal Wedding is the Least of Our Worries
Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
Viewpoint
Why the Fat Guy Should Lose His Privilege
David Sirota
Labor
With Friends Like These… Mass. Dems Make Union bashing a Bipartisan Movement
Roger Bybee

Labor
Workers Memorial Day: A Call to Memory and Action
Kari Lydersen

Culture
Twilight of the Social Critics
David Brooks' latest book, The Social Animal, does not bode well for post-crisis America.
Chris Lehmann
Weekly Diaspora: One Year After SB 1070, What’s Changed?
Catherine Traywick, Media Consortium blogger

Labor
Will Public Workers and Immigrants March Together on May Day?
David Bacon

Labor
With Activists’ Focus On Wal-Mart, Similar Chains Quietly Enter Cities
Akito Yoshikane

Labor
125th Anniversary of Haymarket Affair Celebrates Origin of May Day
David Moberg

Labor
Massachusetts Dems Pass Bill to ‘Eliminate Collective Bargaining as We Know It’
Mike Elk
Weekly Pulse: Single-Payer Bills Pass Vermont Senate, House
Lindsay Beyerstein
Labor
It’s Time to Revive an Old Rallying Cry: Labor Is Not A Commodity!
Joe Burns
Labor
Mike Elk Talks Honeywell Lockout on Democracy Now!
Joe Macaré
Weekly Audit: Hostage-Taking Over Debt Ceiling
Lindsay Beyerstein
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
Freelance contributors are essential to the quality and success of In These Times and independent media, and this agreement is one way to demonstrate their value to our publication and our commitment to transparency.
For more information about the National Writers Union, visit nwu.org.
Read the full agreement, which reaffirms a floor for the rates of our freelance editorial content, as well as our current rates (which are higher) and submissions guidelines below.