Itās a huge fight. But it always has been. The Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 give labor activists the opportunity to revive that tradition
A report on the looming showdown pitting the Chicago Teachers Union against City Hall–and how the teachers’ fight is tied to a wider struggle for justice
The Verizon workersā campaign for union democracy set the stage for a successful strike
By the end of his life, Martin Luther King Jr was an avowed socialist
This is not a protest movement about the actions of a racist gunman, but the renewal of the long struggle for racial justice and equality
The debate over Greece’s future and the hardening battle lines in the discussion of what comes next
By the end of his life, Martin Luther King Jr was an avowed socialist
A look at labor’s crisis ahead of this year’s Labor Notes conference
Some background for understanding Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine–and inter-imperialist rivalries that are coming to a head
IF LOSING Indiana to "right-to-work" forces was a disaster for organized labor, the defeat for unions in Michigan was a catastrophe. Yet…
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