The Movement for Black Lives Issue Takeover

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Corporate Stooges in Blue Collar Clothing

Tensions between right-wing populists and free-marketers have been bubbling up since the 1970s. Will the populists of today exploit this to their political advantage?

In These Times Editors

“This Is What the Climate Crisis Looks Like”: Devastating Floods in Pakistan Endanger Millions

From displacement to destroyed homes and crops, extreme flooding is having a catastrophic impact on Pakistanis.

Julia Conley

Feature

Mikhail Gorbachev’s Late Career as a New Age Toastmaster

The former Soviet leader clung to a vision of globalization that let corporate power run amok.

G. Pascal Zachary

Labor

These Starbucks Workers Demanded Fair Pay, Then Were Accused of Kidnapping Their Boss

Workers at a unionized Starbucks store in South Carolina call the allegations “ridiculous” and are continuing to organize for justice on the job.

Saurav Sarkar

Viewpoint

Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan Is a Very Good Economic Policy

The critics are wrong—cancelling student debt will actually help ease inflation and benefit working-class borrowers.

Max B. Sawicky

Labor

Chicago Teachers Suspect Mayor Lightfoot Tried To Fire Them for Opposing a New Scrapyard

Chicago Public Schools targeted two teachers involved in a campaign to stop the relocation of a dirty General Iron metal shredder to Chicago’s Southeast Side. The union and the community fought back.

Maximillian Alvarez

ViewpointRural America

Salmon or Dams? The U.S. Might Finally Pick Salmon.

The Biden administration has recognized that removing dams is an issue of tribal justice and the only way to save endangered salmon.

Rocky Barker

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Why People Say There's a "Nonprofit Industrial Complex"

Rather than building mass movements, talented organizers get funneled into staff and admin jobs just to keep the charity running.

In These Times Editors

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How Far Would You Go to Stop Climate Change?

A landmark legal victory opens the door to direct action.

Jack McCordick

Labor

500 Days Into the Warrior Met Coal Strike, Where Are Joe Biden and the Democrats?

As Alabama miners fight for their rights, Democratic leaders are largely absent.

Feature

What Soaring Rent Prices Mean for Florida's Working Class

One St. Petersburg woman's struggle to survive the crushing weight of housing inequality.

McKenna Schueler

Viewpoint

The Economy Should Serve People. Not Vice Versa.

A simple shift in perspective can eradicate our taste for austerity.

Hamilton Nolan

Viewpoint

Now That the IRA Is Law, the Climate Movement’s Fight Has Just Begun

After President Biden’s signing of a “historic” climate bill, environmental organizers have plenty of work ahead to undo the IRA’s worst provisions while keeping fossil fuels in the ground.

Mitch Jones

Labor

Ask a Railroad Worker: How Did Railroad Jobs Get So Bad?

As a national rail shutdown over mounting labor disputes looms in the US, it’s worth asking how we got here from the folks who know best—the workers themselves.

Maximillian Alvarez

Labor

Lessons From a Radical Past: One Man’s Journey Into the Factories in the 1970s

A veteran of the New Left's turn to the factories tells his story.

Peter Olney

Labor

Heat Waves Are Putting Teamsters in Danger

UPS workers say the company is not doing enough to protect employees from scorching temperatures.

Mindy Isser

LaborViewpoint

Monkeypox Is a Workers' Rights Issue

The outbreak of monkeypox shows that workers need protections like paid leave and just cause to help protect public health.

s.e.smith

Labor

Chipotle Shut Down Its Only Unionized Store. Organizers Say It’s Retaliation.

While the company denies the closure is related to union activity, it fits a larger pattern of union-busting efforts at other franchises like Starbucks and Heine Brothers’ Coffee.

Maximillian Alvarez