The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor
Why Labor Is Holding Its Applause for Michigan’s Latest “Workers’ Rights” Measures
Bryce Covert

Feature
The Test Facing Democratic Socialist Julia Salazar in New York
Amid controversy, Salazar is working to make her state senate race against a real estate-backed incumbent about vision and policy.
Nick Vachon

Feature
What It Will Take To Bring Real Justice for Laquan McDonald
Organizers don't just want Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke indicted, they want community control of the police.
David North

Dispatch
Trump’s Heartless Honduras Policy, in 15 Numbers
By revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the Trump administration is sending Honduran immigrants back to a nation in crisis.
Sasha Kramer

Labor
Thousands of Chicago Workers Are Out On the First Citywide Hotel Strike In Over a Century
Jeff Schuhrke

Labor
The Prison Strike Is the Modern-Day American Slave Rebellion
Eli Day

Dispatch
Detroiters Fear Losing Their Water May Mean Losing Their Kids
As thousands of Detroiters have their water shut off over debt, neighbors are helping each other to access water without alerting Child and Family Services.
Valerie Vande Panne

Feature
Black Feminism Will Save Us All
Why we desperately need real intersectional feminism.
Premilla Nadasen

Feature
How Radical Black Socialists Paved the Way for Andrew Gillum and Other Left Insurgents
Gillum and other left challengers are winning on an economic agenda pushed for decades by black-led social movements.
Eli Day

Viewpoint
We Are Witnessing the Last Gasps of Centrism
While the Democratic establishment is blindly attempting to revive the neoliberal Third Way, the party's base is embracing socialism.
Miles Kampf-Lassin

Feature
Mariame Kaba: Social Movements Brought Down Rahm—Now They Can Transform Chicago
A conversation with writer and organizer, Mariame Kaba.
Sarah Lazare

Dispatch
Will Mexico’s New President Declare Independence From the United States?
At public forums, Mexicans are pushing Andrés Manuel López Obrador to break with the U.S. on migration and drug policy.
Kent Paterson

Feature
Indigenous Women Rise Against Jerry Brown’s Climate Half-Measures
Ahead of the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, organizers prepare to advocate more radical solutions.
Isabel Bloom

Feature
Seeking Justice for Laquan McDonald—Without Relying on Prisons
Locking up killer cop, Jason Van Dyke, won't address the root cause of his violence.
Benji Hart

Labor
To Stop the Next Financial Crisis, We Need Public Ownership of Banks—Now
Thomas M. Hanna

Labor
What Spurred a 98% Strike Vote by LA Teachers? Plutocrats Pushing Charter Schools
Bruce Vail

Feature
Rehabilitating a Monster: George W. Bush and the Bankruptcy of Civility Politics
On the laundering of a war criminal.
Roqayah Chamseddine

Labor
Why the Left Should Embrace Debt Forgiveness
Scott Remer
