The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

ViewpointRural America

A Rural New Deal Could Help Progressives Win Rural America

Championing rural and working-class communities is how progressives can build the trust needed to defuse culture war weapons wielded by the Right.

Anthony Flaccavento

Viewpoint

Dallas Climate Activists Won a Major Investment in Green Transit. We Can All Learn From Their Fight.

A free public transportation campaign in Dallas is a model for success as Sunrise builds its new Green New Deal for Schools campaign.

Matthew Miles Goodrich

Viewpoint

The Solidarity Economy Movement Is Devising a World Beyond Capitalism

Artists and activists are building economic alternatives centered on principles of cooperation, participatory democracy and sustainability.

Aric Sleeper

Feature

The Case for Child Welfare Abolition

For decades, reformers have tried to fix our broken child protective services system. Is abolishing it an idea whose time has come?

Roxanna Asgarian

Depicted is an oil on canvas painting, where a mother is shown embracing her son. Her head leans to the right and lies on top of his, which leans to the left.

PalestineCulture

Art Against Occupation

Malak Mattar's London show examines the U.K.' s role in Palestinian colonization.

Matt A. Hanson

Viewpoint

Movements Got Brandon Johnson Elected. How Do We Organize From Here?

A run of progressive victories proves that social movements have transformed Chicago, but the migrant housing crisis shows that contradictions and challenges persist.

Asha Ransby-Sporn

LaborInterviewPodcast

The UAW Fight is an Exercise in Class Struggle Unionism

UAW President Shawn Fain has said that “corporate greed” is the enemy, and autoworkers are fighting back.

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

Labor

UAW Autoworkers Strike Grows Larger, Stellantis Has Been Spared in This Round

The UAW strike that started Sept. 15 has now increased to 25,000 workers striking against the Big Three automakers. According to UAW President Shawn Fain, while negotiations continue with all of the Big Three, Stellantis has made "significant progress" on some issues.

Luis Feliz Leon

LaborInterviewPodcast

A Government Shutdown Would Shutter the NLRB. That’s Bad News for Striking Workers.

A government shutdown would place NLRB workers on furlough, leaving striking workers without a crucial ally in their fight.

Maximillian Alvarez

A crowd of striking workers hold up UAW signs and fists, standing in front of two trucks that say Teamsters.

Labor

They Sacrificed to Survive Bankruptcy. They Worked Through A Pandemic. Now, Autoworkers Have Had Enough.

“I want to see them return what they promised to the workers that saved the company,” says a striking Stellantis worker in Minnesota.

Amie Stager

Departments

Conservatives Can't Stop Waging War on Schools

Fifteen years ago, Kate Sheppard reported on the propaganda within the most-used government textbook in America. Now, right-wing fearmongering has once again reared its head in Florida schools.

In These Times Editors

Viewpoint

The Majority of Polling Places are Inaccessible. A Disabled Voter Bill of Rights Could Change That.

We are seeing a concerted effort to push disabled voters like me out of the democratic process across the South—and we have to fight back.

Dom Kelly

Labor

How the Government Can Help Build Industrial Unions

Money. For organizing. Give it to us.

Hamilton Nolan

LaborEn Español

“La lucha es global”: Trabajadores tras el mundo están en solidaridad con los trabajadores automotrices en huelga

Desde Brasil y México a Sudáfrica y Malasia, la solidaridad laboral internacional está reforzando la lucha de la UAW.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

It Shouldn’t Be a Big Deal That Biden Joined Striking Workers on the Picket Line—But It Is

“The most union-friendly president in U.S. history” may be a low bar, but Biden took another step toward clearing it by standing with Michigan autoworkers out on strike.

Jeff Schuhrke

Labor

“This Fight Is Global”: Workers Around the World Are Standing With Striking U.S. Autoworkers

From Brazil and Mexico to South Africa and Malaysia, international labor solidarity is aiding the UAW’s fight to reverse the global race to the bottom.

Jeff Schuhrke

LaborDispatch

Record Profits, Paltry Contracts Fire Up Chicago-Area Autoworkers to Strike

"It's not fair that [CEOs are] bringing home these millions of dollars and have so many summer homes ... and we're living paycheck to paycheck."

Maia McDonald

A dozen workers stand in a line with red shirts and UAW strike signs.

Labor

Wisconsin Autoworkers Are Bundling Firewood for a Winter Picket Line

Called out on strike on Friday, GM workers in Hudson, Wis., are ready for the long haul.

Isabela Escalona