Movements
Why Didn't the Progressive Movement Challenge Kamala Harris?
Recreating the #Resistance of the first Trump administration with such a fragile coalition will be a monumental task.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Don’t Retreat, the Ballot Box Belongs to Working People
Elections aren't the only tool that the working class can use to build power. But as the Right continues to dismantle movement gains, we must use every tool available to us.
Maurice Mitchell
Don't Despair, Organize
Our job on the left is to translate outrage over Trump's agenda into action toward a truly transformational vision.
Mark Engler and Paul Engler
Poetry: Another Democracy is America's Experiment and I am Tired of History's Repetition
America, when you come for me, I’m coming with sound in the streets, with a murder of mothers murking their way through the mud.
Golden
Not in Our Nursing Homes
In Wisconsin, seniors are leading the charge to protect their own healthcare.
George Goehl
It’s Important I Remember That I’m Avoiding the Footage
Two poems on Tyre Nichols and the spectacle of police-sanctioned Black death.
Cortney Lamar Charleston
Winning Worker Rights Requires Fixing U.S. Democracy
Gerrymandering and the filibuster are holding back wage increases, the right to unionize and other benefits for workers.
Paul Sonn
Citibank Is Bankrolling The Largest Offshore Oil Facility In the U.S.—Just Miles From My Home
As part of the historic Summer of Heat campaign, I went to Citibank’s headquarters to demand climate justice—where dozens of protesters were arrested.
Sue Page
Feminism, Debt and Organizing Against Argentina’s Far Right
Debt is a Crucial Organizing Avenue Against Argentina’s Far Right.
Verónica Gago and Lucí Cavallero
New York Times Repeats U.S. Government’s Evidence-Free Claim That Gaza Protests Are Part of Iranian Plot
Where is the actual evidence that Iranian operatives “posing as students” are helping organize and fund campus protests over the war on Gaza?
Adam Johnson
Fighting Privatization Is Good for Mental Health
Dedicated community leaders and persistent organizing are helping make Chicago’s new expansion of public mental health services a reality.
Elena Gormley
EWOC Is Modeling a Path Forward for Labor
The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee is providing crucial lessons for unions and organizing everywhere. It might be an example of labor’s best bet.
Eric Blanc
New Midwest Comics: Sewer Socialists and Police Snipers
Kirk Anderson and Nate Powell
The Unsung History of Heartland Socialism
While often overlooked, the spirit of socialism has coursed through the American Midwest ever since the movement emerged in the 19th century. It continues to animate the region’s political landscape today.
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Reflections on the 10-year Anniversary of the Ferguson Protests
I don’t blame Michael Brown for having a smoking habit. Nor will I blame the boy for stealing a pack of smokes on August 9, 2014.
Sherell Barbee and Jacqui Germain
"You Are Not A Loan!" Introducing the Nation's First Debtors' Union
Debtors’ unions, in solidarity with labor unions and tenants unions, are the organizing formations we need to dismantle genocidal racial capitalism.
Hannah Appel and Astra Taylor
“Raid Happening Now”: Scenes from UChicago’s Popular University
“We are the encampment. We’ll be back.”
Eman Abdelhadi
Prioritizing Pleasure in our Movements
Embracing joy can give insight into the type of world we want to live in—and the motivation to work toward it.
J. Patrick Patterson
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