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“It’s Time to Turn This Tortilla Around”: El Milagro Workers Walk Out, Demanding Fair Treatment

Alleging abusive conditions and staff shortages amid the pandemic, workers at the iconic Chicago tortillería walked off the job—only to to be locked out by management.

Jeff Schuhrke

Rural America

Rural Areas Struggle to Compete for Nurses as They Face Dire Shortages

Covid has overwhelmed hospitals, prompting many overburdened nurses to change careers or retire early. The shortages have hit rural areas particularly hard.

Aallyah Wright

LaborFeature

For Many, the Pandemic Was a Wakeup Call About Exploitative Work

The unemployment expansion showed us what work could be like if it was freely chosen.

Marie Solis

Labor

A Landmark Win for Domestic Workers Lurks in the Reconciliation Bill

$190 billion for home care has been folded into reconciliation—toward measures aimed at improving pay and job security for domestic workers.

Maurizio Guerrero and Sarah Lazare

LaborDispatch

Alabama Amazon Workers May Get Another Crack at a Union

The warehouse workers' fight enters its second round, just when everyone thought it was finished.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

What the Labor Movement Lost With the Passing of Richard Trumka and Stanley Aronowitz

Remembering the legacies of two longtime advocates for the working-class.

Leon Fink

Labor

How Rural Wisconsin Communities Are Fighting Back Against Big Ag's "Hog Factories"

Why residents are taking on industrial meat production.

Maximillian Alvarez

Feature

Democratic Socialists of America Make a Strategy for the Biden Era

Delegates chart a socialist future at DSA's 2021 virtual convention.

Roger Kerson

Viewpoint

Afghanistan and Beyond: End U.S. War-Making Everywhere

We need a reinvigorated anti-war movement.

Azadeh Shahshahani

Communities Near Fort McCoy Work to Welcome Afghan refugees

Residents of the communities surrounding Fort McCoy have been working to welcome the thousands of Afghan refugees who just moved next door.

Henry Redman

Labor

"We Are Emptying Out Their Shelves": Nabisco Workers’ 5-Week Strike Won by Shutting Down Business as Usual

A beaten-down workforce took on a powerful company—and won.

Stephen Franklin

Viewpoint

Playing Chicken With Nihilists

How progressives should deal with the incredible Democratic reconciliation debacle.

Hamilton Nolan

Departments

Occupy Wall Street, Ten Years After

In 2011, Occupy organizers spoke with In These Times about challenges and opportunities. Ten years later, we look back on the decentralized, grassroots uprising.

In These Times Editors

Viewpoint

Occupy Wall Street Trained a Generation in Class War

How OWS shaped a decade of dramatic protests and why it has run its course.

Arun Gupta

Massachusetts May Become First State to Send Money to Low-Income Countries to Deal With Climate Change

A groundbreaking bill would provide funding from U.S. residents to help developing nations respond to the climate crisis.

Rachel M. Cohen

Dispatch

A Lead Problem Worse Than Flint's

Hundreds of thousands of lead service lines in Wisconsin are a threat to public health, and communities of color are particularly vulnerable.

Susan Shain

Labor

Talking to Bourbon Workers on the Picket Line

A conversation with Matt Aubrey, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 23D.

Maximillian Alvarez

The Filibuster Is Now the Only Thing Standing In the Way of Voting Rights

The new Freedom to Vote Act is backed by the entire Democratic caucus. But with full Republican opposition, passing it will require changing or abolishing the filibuster.

Jessica Corbett