October 2025 Volume 49, Issue 08

October 2025

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Labor

A Strategy to Stop the Flow of Our Money to Billionaires Sare Myklebust and Saqib Bhatti

Weathering Backlash with Care Infrastructure Briana M. Bivens

Unleashing Retirement Scammers Bryce Covert

Climate Change Puts A Generation’s Retirement On The Line Adam Mahoney

Pensions Can Be Labor’s Weapon Hamilton Nolan

Feature

The Pain and Possibility of Pensions J. Patrick Patterson

Financing Our Own Destruction Rebecca Burns

Palestine

Gaza’s Nightmare Yousef Aljamal

Culture

The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler Aina Marzia

Comics

"Finanshul" Advice for Geriatric Millennials and Other Comics Brian McFadden, Jen Sorensen, Jack Ohman and Tom Tomorrow

Departments

More Than Social Security; Universal Retirement Access for All J. Patrick Patterson

Feature Interview

The Pain and Possibility of Pensions

A roundtable discussion with New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, CalPERS board member and SEIU Local 521 President Mullissa Willette and Evan Sutton of #TeslaTakedown.

J. Patrick Patterson

Labor Feature Climate

Climate Change Puts A Generation’s Retirement On The Line

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

Adam Mahoney

Financing Our Own Destruction

How workers’ pensions fuel attacks on the working class—and how to reclaim them for the common good.

Rebecca Burns

A Strategy to Stop the Flow of Our Money to Billionaires

The trillions of dollars in our retirement savings are enriching the ultra wealthy while they ravage our communities. A mass movement led by workers and pensioners can turn off the tap.

Sare Myklebust and Saqib Bhatti

Weathering Backlash with Care Infrastructure

The Highlander Nursery School’s free socialist early childhood education helped sustain the Southern labor movement. Here’s what we can learn.

Briana M. Bivens

Colorful collage of Octavia Butler

The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

In a new biography, Susana M. Morris reflects on the devolution of American empire through the lens of Butler’s life

More Than Social Security; Universal Retirement Access for All

Every worker, no matter the job, should have a reliable way to build a nest egg.

J. Patrick Patterson

Unleashing Retirement Scammers

The Trump administration may reopen a loophole that allows investment brokers to enrich themselves at clients' expense.

"Finanshul" Advice for Geriatric Millennials and Other Comics

New comics by Brian McFadden, Jack Ohman, Jen Sorensen, and Tom Tomorrow

Brian McFadden, Jen Sorensen, Jack Ohman and Tom Tomorrow

PalestineDispatch

Gaza’s Nightmare

Gaza is becoming a graveyard without the luxury of graves.

Pensions Can Be Labor’s Weapon

Workers' pensions can help seed the ground for the next generation of union members. It's time to go on offense.

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