Movements

What's Next for the Defund Movement?

Five police abolitionists from around the country—some of them newly elected to city councils—talk about lessons from 2021 and plans for 2022.

Kandace Montgomery, Robin Wonsley Worlobah, Andrew R. Hairston, Willie Burnley Jr. and Makia Green

Disrupt or Anchor the Democratic Party? Why Not Both?

Political scientists Frances Fox Piven and Daniel Schlozman offer key perspectives on whether movements should put pressure on political parties from the outside, or focus on gaining insider power themselves.

Mark Engler and Paul Engler

Happy Birthday Jeff Bezos, You Bum

A cold, angry party for an absent billionaire.

Hamilton Nolan

Death in the Air

An essential worker considers pandemic times.

Sean Estelle

How January 6 Is Being Used to Crush Dissent on the Left

Rather than grapple with the political forces behind the Capitol siege, lawmakers have instead pushed a spate of anti-protest laws across the country.

Branko Marcetic

Student Worker Isn’t an Oxymoron

This month University of California's Student Researchers United-UAW won their union, the largest unit of student employees organized at once in U.S. history. Let's look back 30 years at what campus organizers fought for.

In These Times Editors

These Three Candidates Worked Together to Bring "Sidewalk Socialism" to Their City Council

In spite of India Walton's loss in Buffalo, N.Y., Election Day 2021 still showed promise for socialism on the local level.

Rebecca Burns

How Workers at Beverage Giant Refresco Defeated a “Notorious” Union Buster

Refresco has waged a prolonged and costly fight to stop the workers from unionizing.

Alice Herman

Mississippi Believes It Can Be Organized. Does Anyone Else?

Under-resourced and overlooked, the South is tired of waiting for organized labor.

Hamilton Nolan

The Strike Wave Is a Big Flashing Sign That We Need More New Union Organizing

If you want more strikes, make more union members.

Hamilton Nolan

In Middle America, Unions and Democrats Are Sleepwalking Into the Grave

By not organizing in decimated post-industrial towns, we're ceding ground to the right wing.

Hamilton Nolan

Minneapolis Is About to Vote on Whether to Dismantle the Police

Will the city at the center of last summer's racial justice protests decide to remake public safety? We'll soon find out.

Logan Carroll

"People Are Running Out of Patience with the Capitalist System”: Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez on Governing as a Socialist

With municipal socialism on the rise around the country, we spoke to Rodriguez Sanchez about her role on the Chicago City Council's Democratic Socialist Caucus.

Halsey Hazzard

Meet the New Generation of "Sidewalk Socialists"

Once elected, how do socialists govern?

Rebecca Burns

Democratic Socialists of America Make a Strategy for the Biden Era

Delegates chart a socialist future at DSA's 2021 virtual convention.

Roger Kerson

Occupy Wall Street, Ten Years After

In 2011, Occupy organizers spoke with In These Times about challenges and opportunities. Ten years later, we look back on the decentralized, grassroots uprising.

In These Times Editors

Occupy Wall Street Trained a Generation in Class War

How OWS shaped a decade of dramatic protests and why it has run its course.

Arun Gupta

Pedagogy of the Apocalypse

In a year filled with trauma, a university professor learns how to support her students.

Tatiana McInnis