The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

Labor

Here's What Striking Autoworkers Are Fighting For

The Big 3 automakers have made record profits in recent years. Now, union workers are calling for big raises, an end to tiers, a shorter work week and a just transition.

Jeff Schuhrke

50 Years After the Coup in Chile, the U.S. Has Finally Declassified Documents Relating to Its Role

Following calls for transparency from progressive lawmakers including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Greg Casar, the State Department has declassified records around the events leading up to the violent coup in 1973.

Jake Johnson

ViewpointCulture

No Parties on a Dead Planet: It’s Time We Reimagine Burning Man

Why this ecologically devastating escapist drug party just hits differently in 2023.

Corinne Loperfido

LaborFeature

Why Did UPS Teamsters Vote Yes on the Deal?

A reporter got an intimate look at how contract discussions played out at one local.

Teddy Ostrow

Interview

The Chicago Teachers Union Won Big. What Comes Next?

Chicago Teachers Union president Stacy Davis Gates on the Johnson administration, school privatization, and fighting for immigrant families.

Jim Daley

LaborInterviewPodcast

Autoworkers Aren't Afraid of a Strike

“It's not about protecting the American dream or fighting for the American dream. It's literally like resuscitating it from the dead.”

Teddy Ostrow and Ruby Walsh

Viewpoint

The U.S. Moneyless Economy Is Booming

The free and shared goods economy is creating community resilience and alternatives to trash culture for millions of people.

April M. Short

LaborInterviewPodcast

West Virginia University Administrators Just Announced Massive Layoffs. Campus Workers Aren’t Going Down Without a Fight.

The new WVU budget slashes nearly 10% of majors and 7% of all faculty, but campus workers are fighting back.

Maximillian Alvarez

Dispatch

On Chicago's Northwest Side, Socialists Are Wielding Power in a Whole New Way

For city council members Rossana Rodríguez Sanchez and Carlos Ramirez-Rosa, "co-governance" is key.

Jacqui Germain

DepartmentsThe Socialism Issue

Nationalization Is a Great American Tradition

The U.S. government has at various times taken control of radio, railroads, coal mines and banks. Today there are movements afoot to nationalize Amazon, SpaceX, transit and more.

Dayton Martindale

LaborViewpointInterview

Sara Nelson: Attacks on Abortion Rights Are Attacks on All Workers

Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson on abortion rights, building union density, and the sham of “corporate benevolence.”

Natascha Elena Uhlmann

Viewpoint

If Democrats Want to Win Elections, They Should Bring Back the Covid Welfare State

By many measures, Bidenomics is working great—but most Americans are still down on the economy. That’s in large part because the U.S. government let its temporarily generous social safety net unravel.

Nick French

FeatureInterviewThe Socialism Issue

You Can’t Be a Socialist Alone: Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Two intellectual and movement leaders talk candidly about the growing mass rejection of capitalism—and the challenges of converting that into real socialist organization.

Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

ViewpointThe Socialism Issue

Racial Capitalism Is in Real Peril This Time

The climate crisis is a hard one to buy your way out of.

Barbara Ransby

ViewpointThe Socialism Issue

Socialism at the End of the End of History

Climate change and neoliberalism’s collapse have made the future uncertain. Socialists are faced with a dilemma: How to be ready to seize the moment when we don’t know when or what that moment will be?

Alex Han

Labor

Will the Clean Energy Auto Economy Be Built on Factory Floors Riddled With Toxic Chemicals and Safety Hazards?

Workers at an Ultium Cells plant in Ohio are fighting for fair wages and safety on the job. What happens there could help set the tone for similar joint-venture plants across the country.

Luis Feliz Leon

DepartmentsThe Socialism Issue

James Weinstein Knew That Capitalism Was Killing Us

In 1976, the first editorial in the first issue of In These Times called for socialists “to speak to corporate capitalism as the great issue of our time.”

James Weinstein

FeatureEn Español

En Sus Primeros 100 Días, Brandon Johnson Está Cambiando el Terreno Político de Chicago

Activistas y estrategas políticos evalúan el récord del alcalde mientras busca hacer a Chicago un faro de esperanza.

Taylor Moore