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Could Walmart Be a Model for a Socialist Future?

Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue in a new book that megacorporations—although odious—demonstrate the massive central planning we need.

Peter Frase

Viewpoint

A Call for Clear Heads on Venezuela: How To Criticize Maduro While Opposing U.S. Regime Change

Working-class Venezuelans have long pushed the chavista government for greater democracy and justice—without ceding ground to the right-wing opposition.

Alejandro Velasco

Culture

Street Art Used To Be the Voice of the People. Now It’s the Voice of Advertisers.

Corporations like Red Bull and Stella Artois are co-opting graffiti art.

Christine MacDonald

Labor

Sherrod Brown Is Out for 2020, But the Fight for Workers’ Rights Is Not

Kelly Candaele

Feature

Young Black Feminists Have Some Pointers for Obama

Instead of scolding Black youth, Assata's Daughters is helping them organize to transform the world.

Eli Day

Labor

Will 2020 Be the Year Presidential Candidates Actually Take Labor Issues Seriously?

David Goodner

Feature

Another Failed Coup in Venezuela?

The Venezuelan opposition and its backers in Washington may have underestimated the Chavista grassroots.

George Ciccariello-Maher

Feature

Why Is Dianne Feinstein So Opposed to the Green New Deal? Look at Her Family Finances.

Sen. Feinstein has direct financial interests in the same fossil fuel companies that the Green New Deal threatens.

Branko Marcetic

Feature

Why False Accusations of Anti-Semitism Against Ilhan Omar Are So Harmful

Bad-faith smears of Omar and many others are being used to crush Palestinian rights, undermine social movements and divert attention from real anti-Semitism.

Phyllis Bennis

Labor

The Oakland Teachers Strike Isn’t Just a Walk Out—It’s a Direct Challenge to Neoliberalism

Lois Weiner

Viewpoint

A Historic Election in Chicago Cracks the Machine

The old guard is on the way out, and a progressive future for the city is coming into focus.

Kari Lydersen

Labor

Why Workers at the Biggest Grocery Chain in New England Just Authorized a Strike

Michael Arria

Labor

After Janus, Cities and Towns Are Poised to Become the New Battleground Over “Right to Work”

Nick Johnson

Culture

Feminism in the Age of Precarity

An interview with historian Alice Kessler-Harris on how the past 30 years have changed women’s workplace demands.

Joanna Scutts

Labor

Pennsylvania Workers Are Waging the Biggest U.S. Manufacturing Strike in the Trump Era

Sarah Lahm

Viewpoint

Not Here To Behave: What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Shirley Chisholm Have in Common

Like Shirley Chisholm and Ella Baker, when candidates like Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib enter the halls of power, they bring their people with them.

Barbara Ransby

Feature

Trump’s Deranged Border Wall Plan, In 11 Statistics

As Congress debates Trump's "national emergency" declaration, here's what you need to know about the proposed border wall.

Conner Martinez

Labor

What the Green New Deal Means for Labor

Saurav Sarkar