Movements

The Student Movement for Palestine Continues, Despite Crackdowns

Students organizing to free Palestine discuss how to sustain a movement under relentless repression

Nashwa Bawab

The Student Movement Turns to Hunger Striking to Call for Justice in Palestine

As Israel continues to block aid into Palestine, student protestors are giving up food until their demands are met.

Maximillian Alvarez

At Columbia, International Students Face “Chilling Effects” of Trump Admin

Graduate student union members fight for their community’s safety as university administration cracks down on pro-Palestine speech.

Maximillian Alvarez

“No Kings” Seeded a Mass Movement Against Trump, Backed by Labor

The major protests in mid-June rallied millions in defense of immigrant workers and against authoritarianism. Now what?

Luis Feliz Leon

ICE Raids in Los Angeles Are a Declaration of War, and Angelenos Are Primed for Battle

Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent the city a message when its agents showed up in full force, and that message was responded to in kind by the people of LA.

Tina Vásquez, Prism

Photography in Protest

Redeat Wondemu’s 10-year Modern Muse project honors the resilience of Ethiopian women across continents.

Amelia Parenteau

“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

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

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