August 2018 Volume 42, Issue 08

August 2018

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Viewpoint

On the Complexities of Calling 911, Even in Cases of Sexual Violence Alisa Bierria

There’s Nothing New About Not Calling the Cops Benji Hart

Shaming White People for Calling the Cops Is Just the First Step Derecka Purnell

From Italy to Hungary, the Trumps of Europe Are Rising to Power Joel Bleifuss

Feature

Nonunion Workers Can Save Unions. We Just Need to Reimagine How We Collect Dues. Shaun Richman

It’s Time for Unions To Let Go of Exclusive Representation James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, and Peter Kellman

How To End the Tyranny of the Nonunion Workplace Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Bernie Sanders on Labor’s Future and Why Democratic Socialists Keep Winning Miles Kampf-Lassin

After Janus, How to Tilt the Balance of Power Back to Workers Jessica Stites and Aaron Tang

How Corporations Plan To Use Janus To Turn Workers Against Their Own Unions Chris Brooks

Dispatch

When the “Cure” for Homosexuality Is Torture Kimberley Brown

At the World Bank’s Climate Summit, Financiers Trade Carbon While the World Burns Kate Aronoff

Locking Up Immigrant Kids, Again Jessica Stites

How Portland Occupiers Shut Down ICE Arun Gupta

Culture

Why Dreams of Striking It Rich Are Actually Anti-Capitalist David Anthony

Araby: A Road Movie Driven By Economic Necessity, Not Wanderlust Michael Atkinson

Sorry To Bother You Is the Anti-Capitalist Black Comedy We’ve Been Waiting For Lauren Michele Jackson

Rural America

A New Native-Led Strategy for Fighting Keystone XL Justin Perkins

Nonunion Workers Can Save Unions. We Just Need to Reimagine How We Collect Dues.

The case for voluntary payroll deductions to donate to unions.

Shaun Richman

It’s Time for Unions To Let Go of Exclusive Representation

Janus calls for a radical rethinking of labor law.

James Gray Pope, Ed Bruno, and Peter Kellman

How To End the Tyranny of the Nonunion Workplace

To overcome right to work, we need rights at work.

Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Bernie Sanders on Labor’s Future and Why Democratic Socialists Keep Winning

An exclusive interview with Sen. Sanders on how labor can respond to Janus, the fight to move the Democratic Party left and the growing popularity of democratic socialism.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

After Janus, How to Tilt the Balance of Power Back to Workers

There’s a simple fix to Janus’s “free-rider” problem.

Jessica Stites and Aaron Tang

How Corporations Plan To Use Janus To Turn Workers Against Their Own Unions

A union buster may be coming to your door.

Chris Brooks

When the “Cure” for Homosexuality Is Torture

Ecuador led the way on LGBTQ rights, but abusive “gay cure” clinics persist.

Kimberley Brown

Why Dreams of Striking It Rich Are Actually Anti-Capitalist

The quest for buried treasure is a quest to escape the market.

At the World Bank’s Climate Summit, Financiers Trade Carbon While the World Burns

At “Innovate4Climate,” the people destroying the planet gather to congratulate themselves on their climate efforts.

On the Complexities of Calling 911, Even in Cases of Sexual Violence

A police abolitionist and anti-rape advocate explains why involving the police doesn't always ensure safety.

There’s Nothing New About Not Calling the Cops

Communities of color have long led the way in reducing reliance on police—because they have to.

Shaming White People for Calling the Cops Is Just the First Step

Next, we have to reduce our reliance on police.

Derecka Purnell

From Italy to Hungary, the Trumps of Europe Are Rising to Power

The leader of Italy’s far right, an admirer of Trump, has suggested a “mass cleansing” of Roma.

Locking Up Immigrant Kids, Again

Our nation's past treatment of immigrant families doesn’t make the current situation any less horrifying—but we need it to inform our longterm pressure on the Democrats.

A New Native-Led Strategy for Fighting Keystone XL

At a June corn-planting ceremony, the Ponca Tribe took ownership of land in the pipeline’s path.

Araby: A Road Movie Driven By Economic Necessity, Not Wanderlust

A new film follows a working-class everyman through the margins of Brazilian capitalism.

Michael Atkinson

Sorry To Bother You Is the Anti-Capitalist Black Comedy We’ve Been Waiting For

Boots Riley’s new film shows how black liberation and labor politics are enmeshed. And it’s funny.

Lauren Michele Jackson

How Portland Occupiers Shut Down ICE

Protesters kept the facility closed for 10 days. Although federal police reopened it June 28, occupiers say, "The camp is not going anywhere."

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