Movements

“I Am Not Afraid”

The Trump administration is attacking protesters from all angles. Activists refuse to back down.

Adam Federman

Putting Reentry Out of Business

Unions must think beyond reform and seriously consider abolition—the elimination and eradication of carceral institutions that exacerbate violence and underprepare people for reentry.

Calvin John Smiley

collage of workers with bullhorns and signs, including "Union Strong"

In These Times Honors Starbucks Workers

Starbucks workers received an Honorable Mention in the Labor Organizer of the Year awards for a groundbreaking campaign that is training up a generation of worker-organizers.

Fatima Jalloh

It's Up to the Left to Do What's Right

Executive Director Alex Han urges readers of In These Times to understand and develop strategies against the Right.

Alex Han

Poetry as a Unifying Weapon

There is no breath, no poem long enough to say the solidarity we, Black American people, feel ancestrally for our brothers and sisters in Palestine.

Julia Wright

Democracy dies, first, in the workplace

A conversation on how the decline of unions and the rise of inequality reveals the urgent need for a revitalized labor movement.

Maximillian Alvarez, Hamilton Nolan and Sara Nelson

Elon Musk's DOGE Targets Labor Department

Ahead of a planned Department of Labor visit by Elon Musk’s government-slashing group, unions launched protests and a lawsuit.

Kim Kelly

A man in shorts and white knee socks stands in his doorway looking at a flier, with a woman looking over his shoulder and two canvassers in Siembra NC gear facing him

We Knocked Too Many Doors

In too many states, donors and organizers built infrastructure for one-off conversations instead of investing in issue campaigns that could have done more.

Andrew Willis Garcés

Voices On the Wall

Street art in Bangladesh prevails after the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government.

Piyas Biswas

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