Labor
Rules to Live By
Remembering labor’s fierce organizer, strategist and writer, Jane McAlevey.
Alex Press
Capital Has No Borders—Why Should We?
Precarious immigration status creates an exploitable labor force, allowing bosses to drive down wages for everyone. Inside the labor case for open borders.
Maurizio Guerrero
Republicans Just Handed Down a Death Sentence to the Nation's Coal Miners
As black lung continues to kill coal miners, House Republicans moved to block enforcement of a life-saving safety rule.
Kim Kelly
“Patients should not be treated like commodities”: Baltimore Nurses Are Fighting for a Transformative First Contract
Understaffing leaves nurses pulled in multiple directions and unable to offer optimal care. These nurses are fighting to change that.
Maximillian Alvarez
Flooding in Brazil Has Displaced More Than 600,000 People From Their Homes as States Slash Prevention Funding
“Underneath is this deep-seated trauma that will last for years and decades and sometimes lifetimes for people.”
Maximillian Alvarez
Keir Starmer Is Very Serious About the Status Quo
The UK's new Prime Minister, elected on July 4, won't touch the structures that helped him ascend to power—and that hold most working people in Britain down.
Sarah Jaffe
Liz Oliva Fernández on Life in Cuba Under U.S. Embargo
“I didn't know how the sanctions affected me or my friends.”
Maximillian Alvarez
On Losing “the Greatest Teacher of Nonviolence in America”
Rev. James Lawson was my teacher, mentor and friend. We must commit to honoring his legacy.
Kent Wong
"We are New Orleans”: A Workers’ Bill of Rights Finds Common Ground
“When we came up with the Workers' Bill of Rights, it wasn't just for one group, it was for all."
Sarah Jaffe
We Can’t Let the Press Launder Israel’s War
A coalition of movement journalism organizations has come together to form Media Against Apartheid and Displacement, which sets out to uplift urgent reporting on the genocide.
Lara Witt and Maya Schenwar
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