November 2023 Volume 47, Issue 9

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Labor

Before Shawn Fain, There Was Jerry Tucker In These Times Editors

Striking Autoworkers Remember Broken Promises Alice Herman

In Missouri, Autoworkers Are Fighting for the Future of the Industry Jacqui Germain

Viewpoint

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

Feature

The New Cold War in the Arctic Adam Federman

Dispatch

Striking a Chord for Change: The Poor People’s Campaign for Revolution Natascha Elena Uhlmann

In Small Town Appalachia, Locals Battle a Weapons-Grade Uranium Plant Taylor Sisk

Culture

“Prison Itself Is Censorship”: Mariame Kaba on the Freedom to Read Jack McCordick

Departments

Meet Your Landlord’s Worst Nightmare: Tenants Unions Dayton Martindale

Feature Investigation Goodman Institute

The New Cold War in the Arctic

Amid rising geopolitical tensions, the U.S. is expanding its military presence in Greenland, increasing the risk of something going very wrong.

Adam Federman

Striking Autoworkers Remember Broken Promises

Workers at the Big Three agreed to major concessions as part of the auto bailout of 2009. Fourteen years later, with business booming, they’re on strike to demand what they lost—and more.

Alice Herman

Meet Your Landlord’s Worst Nightmare: Tenants Unions

Nearly half of all renters in 2019 were spending more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities. Tenants have had enough—and they're doing something about it.

Dayton Martindale

LaborDepartments

Before Shawn Fain, There Was Jerry Tucker

Tucker, a UAW member and union leader, called for a union in solidarity with its workers, not businesses.

In These Times Editors

DispatchCulture

Striking a Chord for Change: The Poor People’s Campaign for Revolution

In an effort to record their first album of movement songs, the New York State chapter of the Poor People’s Campaign is tapping into an old organizing tradition with hopes of inspiring change.

Natascha Elena Uhlmann

DispatchRural America

In Small Town Appalachia, Locals Battle a Weapons-Grade Uranium Plant

The company Nuclear Fuel Services wants to process weapons-grade uranium for the U.S. government at a facility in Erwin, Tennessee. Some locals aren’t having it.

“Prison Itself Is Censorship”: Mariame Kaba on the Freedom to Read

52 years after the Attica uprising, a new exhibit closing this week by the author of “We Do This ’Til We Free Us” explores carceral book bans.

Two smiling workers stand back-to-back with signs reading, "UAW on Strike."

In Missouri, Autoworkers Are Fighting for the Future of the Industry

GM workers, out on their second strike in four years, are done with concessions.

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.

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