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How the U.S. Drove Venezuelans North

A relentless history of U.S. imperialism and anti-socialism brought thousands of migrants to the floors of Chicago police stations.

Lilian Jiménez

LaborInterviewPodcast

Striking Autoworkers Have Made Major Strides. They’re Not Done Yet.

Lisa Xu and Chris Budnick on the power of worker organizing—and the UAW’s newfound militance.

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

LaborInterviewPodcast

Mass Protest Hasn’t Won the Change We Need. What Comes Next?

Reporter Vincent Bevins on his new book, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and The Missing Revolution.

Maximillian Alvarez

LaborViewpoint

God Is on the Side of Autoworkers

The UAW’s fight is a righteous one and President Shawn Fain knows that “with faith the size of even a mustard seed, people can move a mountain.”

William J. Barber II

LaborPalestine

The U.S. Labor Voices Opposing Military Aid to Israel

“U.S. military aid going in is pouring gasoline onto a fire. It encourages that there be military solutions, and military solutions will get more people killed.”

Jeff Schuhrke and Sarah Lazare

The Gezi Park Protests Ignited Resistance Against Turkish Police Brutality

Vincent Bevins revisits the 2013 protests in this exclusive excerpt from his new book.

Vincent Bevins

ViewpointPalestine

Israeli Apartheid Is at the Heart of the Brutality in Gaza and Israel

The only answer to the horrifying violence is to change the conditions from which it sprang. The first step is an immediate cease-fire.

Phyllis Bennis

LaborViewpoint

Republicans Are Using Anti-China Rhetoric to Undercut Striking UAW Workers’ Demands

Rather than actually supporting auto workers in their strike against billionaire CEOs at the Big Three, GOP officials are instead using the labor action to rail against electric vehicles and stoke conflict with China.

Jeff Schuhrke and Sarah Lazare

PalestineCulture

"We Call It a Policy of Slow Killing”: Why so Many Called for the Release of Walid Daqqah

Daqqah, a Palestinian who spent almost four decades in an Israeli prison, served his full sentence but it was extended. He was terminally ill and denied adequate care. News broke of his death on April 7. These are some of his writings.

Dalia Taha and Walid Daqqah

LaborFeature

Striking Autoworkers Remember Broken Promises

Workers at the Big Three agreed to major concessions as part of the auto bailout of 2009. Fourteen years later, with business booming, they’re on strike to demand what they lost—and more.

Alice Herman

Labor

“This Just Cost You Kentucky Truck Plant": UAW Announces Major Surprise Strike

Some 8,700 additional auto workers walked off the job on Wednesday in a critical escalation of the Stand-Up Strike.

Keith Brower Brown

PalestineInterview

From Palestine to the Black South, Abolition Journalism is Exposing Injustice

Scalawag editor-in-chief, Sherronda J. Brown, on love, Palestine and the liberatory promise of horror

Natascha Elena Uhlmann

Dispatch

How San Diego Built a Surveillance Apparatus Under the Guise of “Sustainability”

What started as a green infrastructure project quickly spiraled into a crisis of mass surveillance.

Jesse Marx

Labor

“Is This a Union Town or What?” Chicago's Transformative Role in the Labor Movement—Past and Present—Fuels UAW Rally

Mayor Brandon Johnson and local, national and international labor leaders joined United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain at a rally for striking autoworkers and allies at the Local 551 union hall.

Maia McDonald

Viewpoint

Biden Needs To Run On Something—It Should Be Mass Debt Relief

Millions of Americans are drowning in debt. Ahead of the upcoming election, Democrats can do what’s both right and popular by promising to cancel it.

Scott Remer

Labor

UAW Scores Major Victory, GM to Put EV Battery Plants in National Contract

While the UAW's strike against the Big Three is ongoing and bargaining continues, union president Shawn Fain announced an important victory.

Luis Feliz Leon

Labor

Kaiser Workers Are Out on the Largest Healthcare Strike in U.S. History

This week, more than 75,000 unionized workers at Kaiser Permanente walked off the job, the latest in a string of high-profile labor actions across the country.

Jake Johnson

ViewpointRural America

A Rural New Deal Could Help Progressives Win Rural America

Championing rural and working-class communities is how progressives can build the trust needed to defuse culture war weapons wielded by the Right.

Anthony Flaccavento