‘Not a Radical Idea’
Sanders Calls for 32-Hour Workweek with No Pay Cuts By Jake Johnson Sen. Bernie Sanders in early May called for a 32-hour workweek with no pay cuts for U.S. employees, pointing to the overwhelmingly positive…
Economy
Coercion, Exploitation In Prison Labor
University of Chicago Law School and ACLU produce groundbreaking report Incarcerated workers generate billions of dollars’ worth of goods and services annually but are paid pennies per hour without proper training or opportunity to…
Building Anti-Carceral Unionism
A Q&A On Local 79’s “Real Re-Entry” Campaign in New York City Han Lu interviews Bernard Callegari Starting in the spring of 2021, the National Employment Law Project teamed up with New York’s Construction &…
Debt Ceiling ‘Debate’ a Massive Deception
Commentary by Richard D. Wolff Future historians will likely look back at the debt ceiling rituals being reenacted these days with a frustrated shaking of their heads. That otherwise reasonable people would be so readily…
Eight Lessons from Bernie Sanders’s New Book
Bernie is angry about capitalism. You should be too. By Yaseen Al-Sheikh It’s an exciting and frustrating time to be a socialist in the United States of America. On the one hand, the two presidential…
Universal Public Services
Decommodifying survival By Jason Hickel One of the central insights emerging from research on degrowth and climate mitigation is that universal public services are crucial to a just and effective transition. Capitalism relies on maintaining…
End-to-End Internet
Commentary by Cory Doctorow The internet succeeded where other networks failed. Where there were once many nets – cable, phone, leased-line – now there is just The Net, which runs over many of the same…
The Dollar Store Invasion
By Stacy Mitchell, Kennedy Smith and Susan Holmberg Dollar General, Dollar Tree, and Family Dollar are targeting vulnerable communities, opening stores at a breakneck pace in urban and rural areas alike. It’s tempting to assume…
‘Cancel This Failed Experiment’: Physicians Tell Biden HHS to End Medicare Privatization Pilot
By Jake Johnson A national physician group this week called for the complete termination of a Medicare privatization scheme that the Biden White House inherited from the Trump administration and later rebranded—while keeping intact its…
Eliminating Healthcare Debt: A Liberatory Approach
By Chuck Bell A liberatory or emancipatory approach to eliminating medical debt begins with truly hearing the voices of one hundred million Americans who are struggling with bills they can’t afford to pay. As a…