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Workers participating in a general strike leave a shipyard.

Concrete Actions Toward Worker Power Concrete Actions Toward Worker Power

Three hundred Teamsters in the Seattle area are bringing the local construction industry to a standstill.

Jan 21, 2022 / Kim Kelly

Alaska cannery

The Radical Vision of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes The Radical Vision of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes

Murdered by gangsters on a dictator’s orders in 1981, these pathbreaking Filipino labor organizers fought for union democracy.

Jan 18, 2022 / Kim Kelly

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Members of Congress Shouldn’t Be Getting Rich From Trading Stocks Members of Congress Shouldn’t Be Getting Rich From Trading Stocks

Last year, over a hundred members of Congress bought and sold nearly $290 million in stocks and beat the market.

Jan 17, 2022 / Aída Chávez

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Unfinished Work of Abolishing Poverty

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Unfinished Work of Abolishing Poverty Martin Luther King Jr. and the Unfinished Work of Abolishing Poverty

Democrats failed to embrace his Freedom Budget for All Americans in the 1960s. That failure needs to be addressed today with a bold program to abolish poverty and injustice.

Jan 17, 2022 / John Nichols

George Floyd protest in Minneapolis

The Protest Movement and the Protest Government The Protest Movement and the Protest Government

No one acquainted with right-wing media can doubt that anger over the 2020 riots—in Portland, Seattle, Kenosha, Philadelphia, and elsewhere—fed the wildness of the January 6 riot.

Jan 14, 2022 / David Bromwich

UFCW Worker Striking

Workers Are Paying the Price for Kroger’s Profits Workers Are Paying the Price for Kroger’s Profits

A survey of 10,000 grocery-store employees lays out the job’s human cost.

Jan 14, 2022 / Kim Kelly

The Indomitable Rev. Addie L. Wyatt

The Indomitable Rev. Addie L. Wyatt The Indomitable Rev. Addie L. Wyatt

The trailblazing Black labor leader and civil rights activist took her fight for equality from the packinghouse to the pulpit.

Jan 11, 2022 / Kim Kelly

Striking Coal Miners

Why Alabama Coal Miners Are Still on Strike Why Alabama Coal Miners Are Still on Strike

Greg Pilkerton has been fighting for better pay and working conditions for 10 months. He explains why he and his union comrades aren’t giving up.

Jan 7, 2022 / Kim Kelly

Advocates Demand Joe Biden Cancel Student Debt

Biden Is Still Refusing to Cancel Student Debt Biden Is Still Refusing to Cancel Student Debt

In spite of his campaign promises to the contrary, the president is dragging his feet on lifting a burden weighing on millions of Americans.

Jan 5, 2022 / Aída Chávez

Marie Equi

What We Can Learn From Portland’s “Queen of the Bolsheviks” What We Can Learn From Portland’s “Queen of the Bolsheviks”

More than a century ago, the US government tried to silence Marie Equi, a radical queer abortionist.

Jan 4, 2022 / Kim Kelly

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