Movements

Conservatives Can't Stop Waging War on Schools

Fifteen years ago, Kate Sheppard reported on the propaganda within the most-used government textbook in America. Now, right-wing fearmongering has once again reared its head in Florida schools.

In These Times Editors

New York Socialists Won Big On Climate. How Did It Happen?

We don't have to settle for neoliberal half-measures.

Liza Featherstone

You Can’t Be a Socialist Alone: Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Two intellectual and movement leaders talk candidly about the growing mass rejection of capitalism—and the challenges of converting that into real socialist organization.

Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

A New Idea for New Union Organizing

Unions don't organize enough people. Their structure is the problem.

Hamilton Nolan

How A Utility Giant Tried (and Failed) to Build a Pipeline Under Brooklyn

Brooklyn residents didn't learn about the new pipeline project from National Grid until two years into its construction. They were able to stop it anyways.

Sara Van Horn

U.S. Elected Socialists Just Held Their Largest Gathering in Nearly 40 Years

A recent conference brought together democratic socialist elected officials from across the United States—including Bernie Sanders—to collaborate and strategize on advancing progressive public policy.

David Duhalde

How to Build the Media Our Movements Need

Bhaskar Sunkara, Founding Editor of Jacobin and President of The Nation, and Alex Han, Executive Director of In These Times, on building left media that can fight the Right's propaganda machine.

Alex Han and Bhaskar Sunkara

You Can’t Organize Alone

Political education used to happen in person. We should bring that practice back.

Keisa Reynolds

Colombian Peasants Are Taking on an Irish Multinational— and Being Met With Violence

Indigenous leaders protesting cardboard packaging giant Smurfit Kappa Group face threats and retaliation.

Tomás Ó’Loingsigh

At UFCW, A Reform Movement Rises

Can essential workers follow auto workers and revolutionize their union?

Hamilton Nolan

We Shouldn’t Have to Work Ourselves to Death

Why raising the retirement age is a very bad idea.

Christopher R. Martin

Calling Cop City Activists "Terrorists" Is An Old Government Trick

Several Cop City activists have been arrested and charged with domestic terrorism—something that has long been a legal and rhetorical weapon of state power.

Eric Laursen

Black Educators Are Reimagining A Better School System

“Black Lives Matter at School is an act of resistance. It’s a refusal to accept the ways that we are perpetually dehumanized. It’s a statement that we exist, that we are here, and that we are going to fight back.”

Henry Hicks IV

The Plot to Cancel Drag Queens

Drag Shows under attack by far-right groups.

Eesha Pandit

Change the World and Watch Public Opinion Follow

How to stop letting our crises go to waste.

Hamilton Nolan

No Cop City Anywhere

Chicago’s #NoCopAcademy campaign and #StopCopCity in Atlanta are part of the same movement: to end violent policing, protect the environment and defend Black and brown lives.

Benji Hart

A Pipeline Brings Gas and Revolt to Southern Italy

“We thought nothing like this could happen in Italy until we found ourselves right in the middle of it.”

Alessandra Bergamin

After a Record Year for Police Violence, Is It Finally Time to Defund the Police?

As law enforcement budgets have continued to increase, so have the number of killings by police officers. To reverse this trend, funding could be reallocated to social programs, as racial justice advocates have long called for.

Sonali Kolhatkar