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On November 4, New York City voters delivered a resounding YES vote to elect Zohran Mamdani as mayor of the largest US…
Peter Olney
Peter Olney is the retired Organizing Director of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). He has been a labor organizer for 50 years in Massachusetts and California, and worked for multiple unions before landing at the ILWU in 1997. For three years he was the Associate Director of the Institute for Labor and Employment at the University of California. He co-edited (with Glenn Perušek) John Womack’s Labor Power and Strategy (PM Press, 2023).
It appears that the citizen outpouring of rage and discontent over Trump’s autocratic actions resulted in over 2,500 No Kings protests and…
For workers to survive Trump’s MAGA moment and build a fighting labor movement for the future, both electoral politics (something old) and…
The heroes of this election victory are the thousands of grassroots political activists who busted their butts to defeat Trump by working for Biden, particularly in the key battleground states
There is talk about national strikes and those should not be ruled out, but a more plausible course of action in every major American urban center would be to join with NBA stars and provide a cordon sanitaire of safety for voting at arenas
For several decades, corporations have sought to undermine labor rights by turning more employees into “independent” workers, foregoing any responsibility for paying Social Security, unemployment compensation, workers compensation or other benefits like vacation and sick time
Peter Cole has demonstrated that the social and political context of unions is important in determining their course of struggle, and he has highlighted the great impact that dockers have had on social justice struggles
Bill Fletcher and Bob Wing have written an important post election analytical essay with many excellent recommendations on the path forward. “Fighting…
Now that the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia has ended with Hillary Clinton as the party’s nominee, Bernie Sanders’ campaign for “political…
Whether you’re expecting a strike or lockout, the steps are similar—and there’s no need to reinvent the wheel