As we fight authoritarianism, we cannot cede government to a struggle between MAGA and corporate Democrats. Fifty years of bipartisan neoliberal reforms…
Jeremy Brecher is a co-founder and senior strategic advisor for the Labor Network forSustainability. He is the author of more than fifteen…
History shows us that when authoritarianism rears its head, whether it takes root depends on the labor movement’s response. That’s why unions…
This article is the third in a series published by Convergence and Jacobin on the initial years, 2014–2020, of the transformation of United Teachers Los Angeles…
Some in the labor movement make the case for a labor-left economic populism within the Democratic Party that can defeat “MAGA neo-fascists,”…
Former United Teachers Los Angeles president Alex Caputo-Pearl lays out a “block and build” strategy for labor to defeat the rising right-wing…
From the 1990s to the mid-2010s, the dominant forces within the Democratic Party helped create, shape, and drive bipartisan neoliberalism in public…
The fourth anniversary of United Teacher Los Angeles’ (UTLA) and Reclaim Our Schools LA’s January 2019 strike brought moving reflections from all quarters. The…
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