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It’s Time to Shed Light on Our Elite Institutions’ Dirty Money It’s Time to Shed Light on Our Elite Institutions’ Dirty Money

Currently, 99 percent of Harvard’s endowment remains hidden from the public.

Sep 19, 2019 / StudentNation / Ilana Cohen

Union members picket outside a General Motors facility in Langhorne, Pa., Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. More than 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers walked off General Motors factory floors or set up picket lines early Monday as contract talks with the company deteriorated into a strike.)

Striking GM Workers Deserve Our Support Striking GM Workers Deserve Our Support

Despite the many obstacles and tarnished national UAW leadership, everyone needs the workers in this strike to win.

Sep 16, 2019 / Jane McAlevey

What Don’t American Kids Learn in History Class?

What Don’t American Kids Learn in History Class? What Don’t American Kids Learn in History Class?

Some of the strongest evidence that our country needs structural change, that our problems go much deeper than one white nationalist president, lies in history that is rarely taugh...

Sep 5, 2019 / StudentNation / Abe Asher

Strike!

Strike! Strike!

Unbreakable human solidarity is what we need, and mass strikes are the strategy to get it.

Sep 2, 2019 / Jane McAlevey

Reviving the General Strike

Reviving the General Strike Reviving the General Strike

Organizers seeking to spark far-reaching work stoppages in the United States can invoke a powerful fact: It has happened before.

Sep 1, 2019 / Mark Engler

China’s Delivery Drivers Rage Against the Algorithm

China’s Delivery Drivers Rage Against the Algorithm China’s Delivery Drivers Rage Against the Algorithm

Underpaid and overworked, drivers for food delivery apps like Meituan and Ele.me are speaking out about brutal hours and dangerous conditions. 

Aug 21, 2019 / Nick Aspinwall

Saudi Ship Dockworkers Protest

How Dockworkers Are Fighting the Arms Trade How Dockworkers Are Fighting the Arms Trade

Across Europe, a series of coordinated actions at shipping ports have challenged Saudi violence against the Yemeni people.

Jul 16, 2019 / Katy Fox-Hodess

VIDEO: A General Strike Is Possible, but We Have to Work for It

VIDEO: A General Strike Is Possible, but We Have to Work for It VIDEO: A General Strike Is Possible, but We Have to Work for It

Jane McAlevey, The Nation’s strikes correspondent, explains how strikes will be vital in confronting runaway income inequality and the climate crisis.

Jul 3, 2019 / The Nation

Wayfair Walkout

Wayfair Workers Walk Out Wayfair Workers Walk Out

Their action showed how workers can wield their collective power to fight injustice outside of the workplace itself. 

Jun 28, 2019 / Natalie Shure

Sara Nelson

Sara Nelson Is Not Afraid to Strike Back Sara Nelson Is Not Afraid to Strike Back

For the president of the Association of Flight Attendants, radical politics starts in the workplace.

May 10, 2019 / Sarah Jaffe

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