Movements

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

“It's a Statement About Who the University Belongs to”

A roundtable about resistance to privatization and the corporate governance of universities with Eman Abdelhadi (Univ. of Chicago), Calvin John Smiley (Hunter), Layla Hedroug (Yale), Owen Levens (DePaul), and an organizer from National Students for Justice in Palestine.

Nashwa Bawab

“Abhorrent and Barbarous”: The Crackdown on Campus Gaza Protests Faces Pushback

Progressives in Congress are demanding an end to the brutal police assaults on students protesting the U.S.-backed Israeli war on Gaza.

Jake Johnson

Hindu Nationalists Are Taking Notes—and Tech Support—From the Israeli Right

The state of Assam has become a laboratory of ethnonationalism, with warning signs of genocide ahead.

Ankur Singh

The Threats To U.S. Democracy Go Far Beyond Elections and the Courts

We need to do more than protect our elections. Getting money out of politics, repealing anti-dissent laws and ensuring more accountability from elected officials are equally important to democracy.

Basav Sen

The War on Protest Is Here

Political repression is on the rise as the state finds new ways to criminalize dissent and collective action.

Adam Federman

The Political Coalition the Left Needs to Win

"The situation is, without question, daunting. But there are signs of possibility all around us—and the future is ours for the taking."

Alex Han