The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Feature
While You’re Busy Mocking Abigail Fisher, the Powerful Racist Forces Behind Her Are Getting a Pass
It might feel good to mock "Becky with the bad grades," but focusing on her lets the real power players in her anti-affirmative action case off the hook.
Jon Booth
Labor
Labor Research and Action Network Aims To Connect Researchers and Scholars with the Labor Movement
Jeff Schuhrke
Culture
The Tragedy of Brexit
In Thursday's Brexit referendum, Britain decided its fate. But what will that fate be?
Jane Miller
Culture
Sex, Violence and Unions
Workers in porn and wrestling face similar obstacles to effective labor organizing—and may need to work together.
Jetta Rae
Rural America
Scalawags, Rednecks, Mudsills and Swamp People: 400 Years on America’s Fringe
John Collins
Feature
Betraying Progressives, DNC Platform Backs Fracking, TPP and Israel Occupation
Appointees by Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman-Schulz resoundingly rejected proposals put forth by Bernie Sanders surrogates.
Lauren McCauley
Feature
Michel Foucault, Neoliberalism and the Failures of the Left
Rather than criticizing and working against the rise of a free market-oriented liberalism, sociologist Daniel Zamora argues that Foucault was actually somewhat sympathetic to it.
Daniel Zamora and Dave Zeglen
Labor
South Korean Independent Labor Leader Faces 8 Years in Jail for Union Protests
Yi San
Viewpoint
After Brexit, European Left Calls for ‘Massive Political Opposition’
What Europe needs more than ever to avoid a slide into a xenophobic, deflationary, 1930s-like abyss.
Nadia Prupis
Labor
A Oaxaca Teacher Explains Why Educators in Mexico Are Under Attack
A.S. Dillingham and René González Pizarro
Culture
Capitalism’s Favorite Show
Undercover Boss is a mirage.
Michael Terry
Labor
Maestros de Chicago Protestan en Solidaridad con los Educadores Oaxaqueños
Parker Asmann
Labor
Chicago Teachers Organize in Support of Mexican Colleagues After Violent Clashes in Oaxaca
Parker Asmann
Culture
A French Take on John Wayne
When a French family tries to hold on to the past, it doesn't end well.
Michael Atkinson
Comics
The Problem With the Democrats’ No Fly List Gun Control Bill
Matt Bors
Labor
New Chicago Law Will Give Almost Half a Million Workers Guaranteed Paid Sick Leave
Jeff Schuhrke
17% Of The Prison Population Has Hepatitis C, Here’s How That Could Change
George Lavender
Culture
Requiem for an American Dream
Between fiction and reality in rural Louisiana.
Michael Atkinson
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