The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

Warehouse Workers Suspect Amazon’s Promise of PTO for Part-Time Employees Is a Bait-and-Switch

Rebecca Burns

Feature

Open the Borders. Open the Prison Gates. Don’t Sacrifice a Single Person to This Virus.

Closed borders and ICE raids mean crowded detention centers and camps, which is always inhumane. In a pandemic, it’s a global public health threat.

Khury Petersen-Smith

Feature

Wall Street Wants To Let Us Die So They Can Profit

Because self-isolation hurts corporate profits, billionaires are calling to end the too-limited public health measures taken so far by the US government. Unless we take action, Trump might heed their advice — and enormous numbers of people could die as a result.

Eric Blanc

Feature

Workers Have a Birthright to Tell Our Own Stories

A conversation with activist and oral historian Candace Wolf about her self-published book of interviews with workers all over the world.

Maximillian Alvarez

Feature

5 Years of U.S.-Saudi War Have Left Yemen Highly Vulnerable to a Coronavirus Outbreak

Any U.S. response to the global pandemic must end the war.

Shireen Al-Adeimi

Labor

Back to Work? You First.

Hamilton Nolan

Labor

The Italian Workers Fighting Like Hell to Shut Down Their Workplaces

Leopoldo Tartaglia

Feature

We Should Be Very Wary About the Growing Military Response to the Coronavirus Crisis

The reliance on the military for emergency response is a testament to the failures of the U.S. welfare state.

Sarah Lazare

Viewpoint

We Need a Coronavirus Fiscal Stimulus That’s Bigger Than $2 Trillion. And We Need it Now.

The risk of going too small on stimulus is large, while the risk of going too big is almost nonexistent.

Josh Bivens

Labor

Worried Call Center Workers Do Not Understand Why They Are Risking Their Lives for Customer Service

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

The Future Socialists Want, And Centrists Fear

Are reds and red-scarers even talking about the same thing?

Joel Bleifuss

Feature

30 Socialist Songs and Sayings To Wash Your Hands To

Twenty-second clips of Solidarity Forever, 9 to 5, Joe Hill, Guantanamera, and more.

Lu Zhao

Rural America

Fake Twang: How White Conservatism Stole Country Music

Nick Shoulders

Viewpoint

Mike Davis: The Coronavirus Crisis Is a Monster Fueled by Capitalism

Pandora's Box is open, and our ruthless economic system is making everything far worse.

Mike Davis

Viewpoint

While Mainstream Democrats Fumble, Bernie Sanders Is Modeling a Serious Response to Coronavirus

Democrats make a huge mistake by shying away from a robust material response to the crisis.

Natalie Shure

Viewpoint

Despite Bernie’s Loss, Progressives Scored 3 Major Wins in Illinois. Here’s How.

Kim Foxx, Marie Newman and Robert Peters won much-watched races through sustained, longterm organizing.

Will Tanzman

Feature

Illinois Prisoners Say They Don’t Have Access to Hand Sanitizer, Cleaning Supplies or Soap

Illinois state prisons are a coronavirus time bomb, activists warn.

Sarah Lazare

Labor

Sara Nelson: Our Airline Relief Bill Is a Template for Rescuing Workers Instead of Bailing Out Execs

Hamilton Nolan