The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Remembering Amisha Patel, a Lifelong Organizer for Justice

Amisha Patel was a trailblazing leader in the ongoing fight to transform our city, society and communities for the better. Her legacy will live on in Chicago and beyond.

Madeline Talbott and Keith Kelleher

LaborViewpoint

Why Democratic Socialists Are Taking to the Streets This May Day

The legacy of May Day is a fight for working-class power against the ravages of capitalism. Democratic Socialists of America is organizing to keep that proud tradition alive in 2026.

Will Bloom

Rural AmericaHousing

This May Day, Montana Trailer Park Tenants Are Going on Rent Strike

As surging housing costs push workers out of Bozeman, tenants are confronting rising rents with collective action.

Rebecca Burns

LaborViewpoint

Mayday, Mayday, May Day

Friday's emergency signal from the working class

Maya Ragsdale

LaborViewpoint

Why It’s More Important Than Ever To Learn About May Day

A broad coalition is organizing nationwide actions this May Day to support workers’ rights, protect democracy and demand an end to billionaire rule.

Jackson Potter

InterviewCulture

Ai Weiwei on the “Catastrophic Status Quo” of Censorship

A conversation with the renowned artist on life in exile and his new book

Nick Hilden

Podcast

Citizens Reckon with Industrial Plant Explosion in Rural Louisiana

After an industrial plant explosion from chemical dumping, the government is slow to take action.

Maximillian Alvarez

Dispatch

Radical Booksellers Do More Than Just Retail

Bookstores fight for communities through activism, despite backlash.

J. Patrick Patterson

Podcast

Camping Out a Chemical Giant: Diane Wilson Persists in Hunger Strike for Clean Waters

The fourth-generation fisherwoman from Texas’ Gulf Coast said she won’t let Dow continue to pollute the community’s bays and waterways.

Maximillian Alvarez

Interview

What Organizers Today Can Learn From the Socialist Jewish Labor Bund Movement

Artist and journalist Molly Crabapple discusses the lessons she learned while writing her new book “Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund.”

Shane Burley

LaborPodcast

Community Persists for USPS Letter Carriers While Conditions Worsen

USPS mail carriers strive to hold onto community relationships as a contract battle looms for the struggling service.

Maximillian Alvarez

ViewpointCover Story

The Rupture at Hand

Facing down a billionaire-backed authoritarian blitz, the Left isn't waiting for Democratic elites to join step with the party's base.

Miles Kampf-Lassin

LaborInvestigation

After Decades of Quiet Rumbling, an Epidemic Is Erupting Among California Stoneworkers

The engineered stone industry is worth nearly $30 billion. But the workers at its core are falling sick and dying from an illness called silicosis. Now these workers—most of whom are young immigrants—are suing manufacturers.

Kayla Yup

Culture

Iranian Culture Will Not Be Erased

Trump said a “whole civilization will die tonight.” We can’t be destroyed so easily.

Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel

DispatchRural America

Rural Kentucky Tenants Win Unprecedented Lease Agreement After Yearlong Campaign

How tenants in four federally-backed buildings in the South overcame intense retaliation and won a new contract from their out-of-state landlord.

Thomas Birmingham

Viewpoint

We Need To Tax the Corporations Cashing In On the Iran War

Across the political spectrum, Americans support taxing windfall profits—and billionaires—to help working people weather the affordability crisis.

Meghan Schneider and Cass DiPaola

Departments

The Big Idea: Guerrilla Theater

Alongside protests against raids and deportations, small actions of absurdist disruption can also prove to expose the raw violence of those in power.

J. Patrick Patterson

ViewpointFeature

As Workers Struggle, Our Political Class Goes All In On a Permanent War State

From blood banks to food insecurity, a snapshot of a country whose raison d'etre is increasingly open sadism and violence

Sarah Lazare