Movements

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

Buffalo Starbucks Workers Say They Will Unionize One Store At a Time

Union elections at individual stores would be a significant labor breakthrough in the fast food industry.

Hamilton Nolan

Black Teachers Defend Their Curriculum From Attacks on Critical Race Theory

With school boards becoming a battleground in the right-wing war on critical race theory, Milwaukee educators are standing up against racist censorship of American history.

Alice Herman

Tribal Court Case Against Line 3 Pipeline Is First to Invoke “Rights of Nature”

The suit by the White Earth Band of Ojibwe says Enbridge's pipeline would violate the rights of wild rice, which the tribe enshrined in law in 2018.

Alex Brown

Democrats Will Never Stop Triangulating Against Justice

Running against "defund the police" is both cowardly and wrong. Democratic leaders find that irresistible.

Hamilton Nolan

Grief Belongs in Social Movements. Can We Embrace It?

A Black activist reflects on intergenerational trauma, community, and coming to terms with death in movement building.

Malkia Devich-Cyril

The Meeting in 1998 That Kept Black Radicalism Alive

Two decades ago, the Black Radical Congress convened to reclaim revolution and denounce reformism.

In These Times Editors

Introducing the Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Lessons on building collective power.

Barbara Ransby, Chinyere Tutashinda, Karissa Lewis, M Adams and Shanelle Matthews

Cultural Organizing Gives Us a Roadmap to Liberation

Co-directors of SpiritHouse, a Black women-led tribe in Durham, discuss the "life-saving" rituals and practices of freedom that ground their work towards liberation.

Mya Hunter and “Mama Nia” Wilson

The Utopic, Love-Centered, “Liberation Oasis” on Chicago’s South Side

Damon Williams, a co-founder of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, talks radical space-building.

Bettina Johnson

No, Minneapolis Did Not Defund the Police. But We’re Not Done Trying.

We understand that abolition is the long game. We’re in it for as long as it takes.

Kandace Montgomery and Miski Noor

What Radical Black Women Can Teach Us All About Movement-Building

Three historians lift up Black women journalists, organizers and activists who were critical to Black freedom movements but often erased from history.

Keisha N. Blain, Premilla Nadasen and Robyn C. Spencer

Voter Suppression Is White Supremacy. It Must Be Stopped.

In recent years, down-ballot wins across the country have legalized marijuana, overturned Jim Crow-era election law, and hiked minimum wages. The GOP’s campaign to suppress the Black vote threatens wins like these.

Kayla Reed

The Future of the Movement for Black Lives

Urban rebellions blossomed into mass mobilization upon George Floyd's death. Now what?

M Adams