The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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Climate Disaster Is Here—and the State Will Never Save Us

"States demonstrate, again and again, that not only do they not protect the Earth, they facilitate its destruction." Dean Spade on the promise of speculative fiction and a review of The Ministry for the Future and The Deluge.

Dean Spade

Labor

“What Could We Win Together?” Labor in Minnesota Gears up for a Major Escalation

With a string of contracts expiring in the new year, Minnesota unions and community groups are gathering to unite around a strategy for a cleaner environment and better jobs, housing and schools.

Isabela Escalona and Amie Stager

Labor

The UAW Has Now Reached a Tentative Agreement With Each of the Big Three

The deal with General Motors, the last of the major U.S. automakers to settle, could put an end to the union's historic Stand-Up Strike. But now it's up to the members.

Jake Johnson

Interview

No es una “crisis migratoria". Es una crisis de desinversión.

Los Venezolanos impulsados hacia el norte por el imperialismo estadounidense llegaron a una ciudad destrozada por el neoliberalismo.

Lilian Jiménez

Interview

Cruelties Collide for Migrants in Chicago

Venezuelans driven north by U.S. imperialism landed in a city decimated by neoliberalism.

Lilian Jiménez

FeatureInvestigationGoodman Institute

The New Cold War in the Arctic

Amid rising geopolitical tensions, the U.S. is expanding its military presence in Greenland, increasing the risk of something going very wrong.

Adam Federman

InterviewEn Español

La Política Estadounidense Impulsó la Migración de Venezolanos

Un legado de imperialismo y antisocialismo estadounidense llevó a miles de inmigrantes a los pisos de las estaciones policiales en Chicago.

Lilian Jiménez

Labor

“It Kind of Feels Like Prison”: Injured, Burned Out and Under Surveillance at Amazon

More than 40% of Amazon workers get injured on the job, according to a new report. The company says they are “industrial athletes.”

Katrina Pham

Labor

Here’s What UAW Workers Won in a “Historic” TA After Striking at Ford

After more than a month on the picket line, autoworkers have reached a tentative agreement with Ford including massive wage increases, cost of living adjustments and the right to strike over plant closures. Now the deal goes to the membership, while strikes continue at GM and Stellantis.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

UAW and Ford Announce Tentative Deal

The tentative deal between the UAW and Ford would end the strike against one of the mammoth automakers making up The Big Three, according to the union.

Ari Bloomekatz

ViewpointPalestine

“I Am Done Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils. I Will Not Vote for Joe Biden in 2024.”

Unless Biden drastically reverses course on Palestine, Muslims will not turn out for him on Election Day—critical voters in key swing states—and Democrats only have themselves to blame.

Saqib Bhatti

PalestineInterview

“I Was Sent Here to Fight for Shared Humanity”: Rep. Delia Ramirez on Why She Backs a Cease-Fire in Israel and Palestine

In These Times Executive Editor Ari Bloomekatz and Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) discuss the urgency of a cease-fire, a progressive approach to foreign policy, and why Marjorie Taylor Greene poses such a threat to everyday Americans.

Ari Bloomekatz and Delia Ramirez

Culture

“Prison Itself Is Censorship”: Mariame Kaba on the Freedom to Read

52 years after the Attica uprising, a new exhibit by the author of “We Do This ’Til We Free Us” explores carceral book bans.

Jack McCordick

ViewpointPalestine

The Growing Jewish Resistance to Israel’s War on Palestine

Jewish socialists and progressives in the U.S. are organizing to say that “never again” means never again for anyone.

Mindy Isser

Labor

UAW Strikes Two Major Plants This Week Including "The Most Profitable Auto Plant in the World”

The latest strikes at General Motors and Stellantis bring the total number of United Auto Workers members on strike to some 46,000.

Keith Brower Brown

Palestine

“We Need You to Stand Up”: Bernie Sanders’ Former Staffers Call on Him to Back Cease-Fire in Palestine and Israel

Hundreds of former staffers of the democratic socialist senator have signed a letter urging him to back a peaceful resolution to the war in Palestine.

Eloise Goldsmith

CultureThe Socialism Issue

Capitalism Is Not “The One”

An exclusive excerpt from Malaika Jabali's new book, It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism, a guide to socialism for budding anti-capitalists.

Malaika Jabali

Palestine

The Democratic Party Has an Israel Problem. These Progressives Are Trying to Solve It.

As the brutal attacks on Gaza continue, cracks are beginning to show in the Democratic Party’s unequivocal fealty to Israel.

Daphna Thier