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March 14, 2018
The Women of Wages for Housework
A new book edited by Silvia Federici and Arlen Austin helps capture the excitement and ideas of a movement that had modest origins but spread around the world within several years.
Sarah Jaffe
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Economy April 20, 2017
Back at the Carrier Plant, Workers Are Still Fighting on Their Own
Trump’s tax break was not enough. Truly addressing the plight of the American working class means confronting the problems of global capitalism.
Sarah Jaffe
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Labor Organizing November 4, 2016
In GOP Country, a Small Labor Organization Offers a Model for Fighting Trumpism
The Workers’ Project in Indiana has been uniting undocumented immigrants with white union workers since long before Trump hit the campaign trail.
Sarah Jaffe
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Congress October 25, 2016
Zephyr Teachout Is Battling Big Money and Cynicism in One of This Year’s Tightest Congressional Races
Can Teachout’s radical optimism prevail in the Hudson Valley?
Sarah Jaffe
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Financial Crisis September 23, 2016
The Fight Against Austerity Started Here
In 2011, the people of Wisconsin challenged the right’s austerity agenda. Their uprising was even more revolutionary than you think.
Sarah Jaffe
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Housing and Homelessness July 5, 2016
This Group Pioneered the Fight for $15. Can They Transform the Fight for Affordable Housing Too?
New York Communities for Change wants to remake New York in a more equal image.
Sarah Jaffe
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Activism August 31, 2015
What a Band of 20th-Century Alabama Communists Can Teach Black Lives Matter and the Offspring of Occupy
On the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking history, Hammer and Hoe, author Robin D.G. Kelley discusses the lessons Alabama’s forgotten black communists can offer today’s activists.
Sarah Jaffe
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Housing and Homelessness June 25, 2015
How Andrew Cuomo Sold Out New York City Renters to a Pack of Wealthy Landlords
As protesters camp out in Albany to demand better protections for renters, lawmakers cop out on their consituents with a lukewarm rent regulation agreement.
Sarah Jaffe
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Cities June 17, 2015
Can Kshama Sawant Build an Actual Socialist City in America?
First, she'll have to win rent control.
Sarah Jaffe
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Labor April 22, 2015
Would You Rather Grow Old at Home With Your Family or Alone in a Nursing Home?
How Ai-jen Poo’s radical vision for caregiving could remake our economy along more humane lines.
Michelle Chen and Sarah Jaffe