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Notes on Our Connected Crusades for Liberation

Three poems from Cortney Lamar Charleston's new collection, "It's Important I Remember."

Cortney Lamar Charleston

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While the U.S. Doubles Down on Fossil Fuels, Other Countries Are Charting a Path Away From Them

The recent Santa Marta conference in Colombia was the world’s first diplomatic conference expressly dedicated to phasing out fossil fuels.

Basav Sen

DepartmentsPolitics

A Dream Deferred for the Jackson Faction

Jesse Jackson's politics of inclusion, an ongoing project, was spurred by his ascent to two candidacies for the Democratic presidential ticket.

In These Times Editors

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Turning the Page on Corporate Bookselling

Radical booksellers create democratically governed spaces where the public is encouraged to build movements, rather than merely participate in the retail economy.

J. Patrick Patterson

Politics

The Grand Old Illusion of ‘Ethical’ Capitalism

Donald Trump’s Big Oil bonanza is an environmental disaster — but the industry’s reaction exposes a larger truth about capitalism itself.

Brad Swanson

"These Are the Mistakes a Dying Empire Makes"

A conversation with professor and economist Richard Wolff on operation "Economic Fury" and the fragility of the petrodollar

Glenn Diesen and Richard D. Wolff

Labor

May Day Was a Reminder That We Make the World Run

It wasn’t just a day of protest, boycott or celebration—May Day showed that we, the workers, are all on the same glorious team.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

South Carolinians Wage May Day Protest of the Israeli Weapons Factory in Their Back Yard

The International Workers’ Day protest targets Elbit America, a subsidiary of the largest weapons company in Israel, now supplying munitions used in Lebanon.

Sarah Lazare

Why we celebrate May Day

This May Day, support media that serves the working class, not billionaires.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

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The Legacy of Jewish Worker Organizing That Brought Us to This May Day

A century of Jewish labor organizing centered on solidarity has helped lead us to this moment.

Ann Toback

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Why Mayors Across the Country Are Signing On To a Haymarket Declaration This May Day

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson explains why a coalition of mayors has come together to commemorate the legacy of May Day and defend workers from attacks by the Trump administration.

Brandon Johnson

Remembering Amisha Patel, a Lifelong Organizer for Justice

Amisha Patel was a trailblazing leader in the ongoing fight to transform our city, society and communities for the better. Her legacy will live on in Chicago and beyond.

Madeline Talbott and Keith Kelleher

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Why Democratic Socialists Are Taking to the Streets This May Day

The legacy of May Day is a fight for working-class power against the ravages of capitalism. Democratic Socialists of America is organizing to keep that proud tradition alive in 2026.

Will Bloom