Labor

The Great Dispossession

 And The Battle For The Future Of Food In India By Colin Todhunter If there’s one country that captures the global battle over who controls the basic building blocks of life, it’s India. With more…

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How to Block ICE In Your City

An interview with Minneapolis organizer Aru Shiney-Ajay By Eric Blanc ICE and the Border Patrol’s terror campaign has taken the lives of Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and led to the abduction of five-year-old Liam…



A Strike is Not a Spell

On the January 30 “general strike” Commentary by Tabitha Arnold Adrienne Maree Brown imagines community organizing as a series of spells. You might use one of brown’s spells for radicals to greet a comrade with…


Dollar Store Workers Fight to Improve Jobs

Even Without a Union By Jesse Baum When a Dollar General stocker named David Williams saw two of his co-workers struggling to subdue a would-be shoplifter who was carrying a knife in 2019, the then-33-year-old…


Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now

By Alex Han Trump’s attacks on working people—threats to send troops into major U.S. cities, ripping collective bargaining rights from a million federal workers, an immigration enforcement terror campaign that borders on unconstitutional—have been so…


Employers and Unions Shielding

LA Workers from ICE By Jeremy Lindenfeld A lot of undocumented immigrants—and their employers— remember when the siege began. Federal immigration agents equipped with tactical gear and rifles descended on downtown Los Angeles in armored…



Duke Grad Student Union’s Historic Win

By Max Tendler After two years of strikes and 32 negotiation sessions with University administration, Duke Graduate Student Union has ratified its first contract—the first agreement for unionized graduate students in the South. DGSU members…


“We didn’t lose, we learned”

Amazon Union Campaign Expands to Durham By Brandon Kingdollar The campaign to unionize Amazon has set its sights on Dur­ham, with Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity and Em­powerment launching an organizing drive outside the company’s…