Movements

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

Pessimism Is a Luxury We Can't Afford

The fights ahead are daunting—but the world is ours to win.

Dayton Martindale

Democratic Socialists of America Is Helping Rebuild the U.S. Anti-War Movement

Despite recent public resignations from some longtime members who disagree with the organization’s work and positions supporting Palestinian freedom, DSA is growing—and building coalitions across the U.S. Left.

Daphna Thier

The UAW Just Challenged the Entire Labor Movement to Get More Ambitious

The United Auto Workers announced a new campaign to organize 150,000 new members at non-union shops. Every other major union should follow suit.

Hamilton Nolan

Striking a Chord for Change: The Poor People’s Campaign for Revolution

In an effort to record their first album of movement songs, the New York State chapter of the Poor People’s Campaign is tapping into an old organizing tradition with hopes of inspiring change.

Natascha Elena Uhlmann

The Right's Persecution of Palestine Supporters Looks a Lot Like a New Red Scare

Workers have been fired. Students have lost job offers. Activists have been harassed. But you can’t bully a movement into silence.

Nashwa Bawab

The Rise of the Far Right Is a Global Phenomenon

Facing a planetary wave of far-right authoritarianism, from Italy’s Giorgia Meloni to Argentina’s Javier Milei, the Left must learn to “organize despair.”

Alberto Toscano

The Largest Pro-Palestinian Protest in U.S. History Was "A Turning Point." Now It's Spreading.

"Felt like this was a new wave or a turning point in the struggle for Palestine.”

Henry Hicks IV

The Growing Jewish Resistance to Israel’s War on Palestine

Jewish socialists and progressives in the U.S. are organizing to say that “never again” means never again for anyone.

Mindy Isser

How San Diego Built a Surveillance Apparatus Under the Guise of “Sustainability”

What started as a green infrastructure project quickly spiraled into a crisis of mass surveillance.

Jesse Marx

Art Against Occupation

Malak Mattar's London show examines the U.K.' s role in Palestinian colonization.

Matt A. Hanson

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