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There’s no sugarcoating it: Mercedes workers’ loss last week was a punch in the gut. Hopefully we can soon get some sober…
Eric Blanc
Eric Blanc is an assistant professor of labor studies at Rutgers University, the author of We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker Organizing Is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big (University of California Press, 2025), and an organizer trainer in the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.
Young, radicalized, digitally coordinated workers have initiated and driven forward many of the highest profile strikes and union drives of recent years.…
With its impressive strike victory last fall and now a promising drive to organize nonunion auto plants, the United Auto Workers is…
The only thing harder than winning a union election against a megacorporation is winning a first contract. So it’s not surprising that…
Why are most national unions doing relatively little to meet the current opening for new organizing? One overlooked reason is the deepening generation gap…
On August 25, workers in Lansing, Michigan, won the first successful unionization vote at any Chipotle store in the United States — a victory…
A reborn workers’ movement needs both organized workplace militancy and left-wing politicians that back them
Teachers across the country are insisting that schools should only be reopened when it can be done safely — and they might just go on strike to fight back against the billionaires
If we want to start winning, socialists need to study the recent defeats of Syriza in Greece, Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, and Bernie Sanders in the US, along with the failures of twentieth-century social democracy and the declining relevance of Leninism
Don’t worry about the naysaying pundits and polls. Bernie Sanders’s road to victory is through mobilizing the kind of voters who don’t usually vote. Whether or not he can pull it off is up to us