July 2026 Volume 50, Issue 06
July 2026
Labor
Julio Foolio, Unions and “Sweat Equity”
Calvin John Smiley
May Day and the Potency of Solidarity Against Division
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Viewpoint
Socialists Are Tearing Through the Democratic Party Establishment
Miles Kampf-Lassin
How Resisting Trumpism Could Revive the U.S. Labor Movement
Stephen Lerner and Joseph A. McCartin
Feature
No New Beds
Micah Herskind, Priscilla Grim and October Krausch
Cover Story
Bea Lumpkin and How an Antifascist Rests in Power
Stacy Davis Gates
Culture
Sudanese Filmmakers Forge New Paths
Mohammed Ahmed Wad Al Sak
If We Can Intifada the Poems...
George Abraham
Comics
The People Running Airlines Are Flying Private Jets
Jen Sorensen
Trump Is Sleeping Through His War on Iran
Jack Ohman
Comics
Turn the Tables on the Oligarchy and Strike!
Brian McFadden, Ruben Bolling, Tom Tomorrow and Jen Sorensen
Departments
Zombie Coins, Ghost Chains and Other Slop
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Housing
Politics
Fascists Don't Know How to Party
Hamilton Nolan
Comics
The People Running Airlines Are Flying Private Jets
Your suffering on Summer vacation means big profits for airlines.
Jen Sorensen
Departments
Zombie Coins, Ghost Chains and Other Slop
Some of the latest developments in late capitalism, from a human perspective—never an AI hallucination.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Comics
Trump Keeps Making the Best Deals With Iran... Kind Of
A new comic by Tom Tomorrow
Tom Tomorrow
Comics
Trump Is Sleeping Through His War on Iran
A new comic by Jack Ohman
Jack Ohman
LaborViewpoint
Julio Foolio, Unions and “Sweat Equity”
How incarceration and labor are bound together.
Calvin John Smiley
LaborInvestigation
AI’s Rise is Being Fueled by the Sprawling U.S. Military State
Can an increasingly precarious tech workforce be a site of antiwar resistance?
Sarah Lazare
Viewpoint
Socialists Are Tearing Through the Democratic Party Establishment
After New York’s Democratic primary shockwaves, there is no doubt: democratic socialism is on the march in the U.S.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Politics
Fascists Don't Know How to Party
Trump’s 250th American anniversary celebration was as pathetic as we deserve.
Hamilton Nolan
Housing
Real Estate Merger Poised to Create Several Local Apartment Monopolies
A combination between AvalonBay and Equity Residential would put close to 200,000 apartments in the hands of one company.
Rebecca Burns
Culture
Sudanese Filmmakers Forge New Paths
Young women forced from their homes in the ongoing war are creating a new form of resistance cinema.
Mohammed Ahmed Wad Al Sak
Culture
If We Can Intifada the Poems...
Two poems from When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America.
George Abraham
Viewpoint
How Resisting Trumpism Could Revive the U.S. Labor Movement
The array of attacks on democracy and workers’ rights presents an opportunity to expand labor’s power—if unions are willing to seize it.
Stephen Lerner and Joseph A. McCartin
Comics
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
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