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Turn the Tables on the Oligarchy and Strike!

New comics on the state of the world by Brian McFadden, Ruben Bolling, Tom Tomorrow and Jen Sorensen.

Brian McFadden, Ruben Bolling, Tom Tomorrow and Jen Sorensen

LaborPodcast

A Conversation With Graduate Student Workers on Strike at Harvard

More than 4,000 UAW members are on strike at Harvard University.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborDepartments

May Day and the Potency of Solidarity Against Division

International Workers' Day, aka May Day, represents a fight for a different vision of society—one where we, not a billionaire minority, can make the decisions that impact our lives.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

LaborPodcast

Baristas, Billionaires, and (Alec) Baldwin

The Starbucks Baristas are Still Fighting for a Contract.

Maximillian Alvarez

ViewpointPolitics

Ramirez: "The call for accountability must not go unanswered. We need an independent prosecutor."

Tomorrow, a judge will rule whether to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate crimes by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz.

Delia Ramirez

Dispatch

"It Is Like Martial Law Here"

Activists are targeted in Philippines human rights violations and militarization.

Alessandra Bergamin

Labor

Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Tony Mazzocchi, a Working-Class Hero

A lifelong champion of workers’ rights and union democracy, Mazzocchi envisioned and worked to build a transformative U.S. labor movement.

Steve Early and Rand Wilson

Housing

How One Landlord Tried to Silence Tenants—and the Story of Their Rent Strike

To settle their eviction cases, Chicago tenants agreed to stop speaking publicly about their landlord. His attempt to hold them liable for past statements to the media could set a chilling precedent, experts say.

Hope Davis

Labor

Trump’s Latest Target: Coal Miners’ Safety

In one fell swoop, the Trump administration took an axe to the agency tasked with handling legal disputes around mine worker safety. It could signal even deeper cuts to worker protections coming down the pike.

Kim Kelly

Investigation

ICE-Cold Cash: Members of Congress Took More than $1.7 Million from ICE Contractors

Find out if your representatives have taken cash from Palantir, the private prison industry and other companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts.

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg and Ethan Corey

Culture

Notes on Our Connected Crusades for Liberation

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

Cortney Lamar Charleston

ViewpointClimate

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

Departments

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