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Autoworkers Are Fighting for the Future of the Industry

Stagnant pay and hazardous conditions have driven autoworkers at the Big Three to organize.

Maximillian Alvarez

Screenshot of United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain in a livestream wearing a red UAW shirt, a UAW pin, and surrounded by UAW signs with demands like ?"End Tiers" and "COLA Fair Pay"

Labor

"Keep the Companies Guessing": UAW "Stand-Up Strike," Explained

UAW President Shawn Fain says the union is ready to strike, using a new tactic that's a "historic first."

Jake Johnson

Viewpoint

It’s Time to Reclaim the Promise of Economic Rights in the U.S.

The fight for social democratic policies can help inspire a progressive resurgence in America. A new book provides a roadmap.

Max B. Sawicky

In a protest crowd, a closeup on one protester holding a sign that says "Hochul: Build of Burn"

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New York Socialists Won Big On Climate. How Did It Happen?

We don't have to settle for neoliberal half-measures.

Liza Featherstone

Photograph of a worker in a red shirt holding a sign that says "Fighting for the American Dream," with other marching behind her.

Labor

Exhausted, Injured and Angry: Autoworkers Have Had Enough

Record profits should mean record pay—but that's not how it's played out at the Big Three automakers. These Ford workers have had enough.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

Here's What Striking Autoworkers Are Fighting For

The Big 3 automakers have made record profits in recent years. Now, union workers are calling for big raises, an end to tiers, a shorter work week and a just transition.

Jeff Schuhrke

50 Years After the Coup in Chile, the U.S. Has Finally Declassified Documents Relating to Its Role

Following calls for transparency from progressive lawmakers including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Greg Casar, the State Department has declassified records around the events leading up to the violent coup in 1973.

Jake Johnson

ViewpointCulture

No Parties on a Dead Planet: It’s Time We Reimagine Burning Man

Why this ecologically devastating escapist drug party just hits differently in 2023.

Corinne Loperfido

LaborFeature

Why Did UPS Teamsters Vote Yes on the Deal?

A reporter got an intimate look at how contract discussions played out at one local.

Teddy Ostrow

Interview

The Chicago Teachers Union Won Big. What Comes Next?

Chicago Teachers Union president Stacy Davis Gates on the Johnson administration, school privatization, and fighting for immigrant families.

Jim Daley

LaborInterviewPodcast

Autoworkers Aren't Afraid of a Strike

“It's not about protecting the American dream or fighting for the American dream. It's literally like resuscitating it from the dead.”

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

Viewpoint

The U.S. Moneyless Economy Is Booming

The free and shared goods economy is creating community resilience and alternatives to trash culture for millions of people.

April M. Short

LaborInterviewPodcast

West Virginia University Administrators Just Announced Massive Layoffs. Campus Workers Aren’t Going Down Without a Fight.

The new WVU budget slashes nearly 10% of majors and 7% of all faculty, but campus workers are fighting back.

Maximillian Alvarez

Dispatch

On Chicago's Northwest Side, Socialists Are Wielding Power in a Whole New Way

For city council members Rossana Rodríguez Sanchez and Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, "co-governance" is key.

Jacqui Germain

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Nationalization Is a Great American Tradition

The U.S. government has at various times taken control of radio, railroads, coal mines and banks. Today there are movements afoot to nationalize Amazon, SpaceX, transit and more.

Dayton Martindale

LaborViewpointInterview

Sara Nelson: Attacks on Abortion Rights Are Attacks on All Workers

Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson on abortion rights, building union density, and the sham of “corporate benevolence.”

Natascha Elena Uhlmann

Viewpoint

If Democrats Want to Win Elections, They Should Bring Back the Covid Welfare State

By many measures, Bidenomics is working great—but most Americans are still down on the economy. That’s in large part because the U.S. government let its temporarily generous social safety net unravel.

Nick French

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You Can’t Be a Socialist Alone: Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Two intellectual and movement leaders talk candidly about the growing mass rejection of capitalism—and the challenges of converting that into real socialist organization.

Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor