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Departments

Debtor Organizing Can Transform Our Individual Financial Struggles Into a Source of Collective Strength

Alone, our debt is a liability. Together, it’s our leverage.

J. Patrick Patterson

Labor

Los Angeles Teachers’ Road to Durable Power, 2014–2016

United Teachers Los Angeles’ transformation into a strike-ready, progressive union offers lessons for how today’s labor upsurge can produce durable, transformative union power, writes former UTLA president Alex Caputo-Pearl.

Alex Caputo-Pearl

Labor

The Baristas Who Took Over Their Café

Baltimore’s 230-year-old tradition of workplace democracy is experiencing a revival.

Osita Nwanevu

Can a National Strike Save a Closed Plant? A Town Depends On It.

The UAW is calling up locals to stand by Stellantis workers in Belvidere, Ill., who were promised a reopening.

Sarah Lazare

EWOC Is Modeling a Path Forward for Labor

The Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee is providing crucial lessons for unions and organizing everywhere. It might be an example of labor’s best bet.

Eric Blanc

ViewpointElection 2024

Kamala Harris Says “We’re Not Going Back.” But What’s Her Plan Forward?

In last night’s presidential debate, Harris outperformed Trump. Yet she was light on policy specifics and failed to articulate how her agenda would mark a clean break from the past.

Branko Marcetic

Comics

New Midwest Comics: Sewer Socialists and Police Snipers

Kirk Anderson and Nate Powell

"Grief Is a Rupture": Sarah Jaffe's New Book on Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire

In her new book "From the Ashes" In These Times columnist Sarah Jaffe examines the intersections between grief and organizing for a better world.

Sarah Jaffe

ViewpointPalestineElection 2024

The Right Is Increasingly Exploiting the Horror of Genocide

Right-wing operatives are channeling the genocide in Gaza into mainstream antisemitism.

Ben Lorber