Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on labor including strikes, trade unions, workers’ rights, the gig economy, corporations and their opposition to workers’ rights, democractic workplaces and co-operatives, low incomes and the fight for better wages.
Introduction Since October 7, 2023, the world has witnessed one of the largest waves of protest since the Iraq War. Student encampments…
A century ago, Britain was rocked by perhaps the most serious episode of class struggle it has ever known. Millions of workers…
With the artificial intelligence boom reshaping the global economy, workers are racing to defend their rights as the ground shifts beneath them.…
Two years and six strikes into bargainingāafter switching law firms, cancelling negotiation sessions, firing union leaders, and allegedly backing a decertification effortāperhaps…
Class warfare continues to be waged incessantly. And that warās offensives continue to be more intense. In just the past year, the…
Marcelo Assis recalled how his family arrived in the United States about 35 years ago, āpoor as hellāāyet certain that America offered…
Everyoneāyou, me, politicians, Wall Street, tech people, philosophersāis a little bit scared and dazzled by AI. This is natural. Nobody quite knows…
Well, the propaganda they sell us like soda water is that ‘ We are a free country and everyone has the opportunities…
In a time when thereās real cause for fear and despairāand when the Trump administration is pushing hard to divide usāthe Labor…
[The following was originally published in 1995 by Covert Action Quarterly.] ā¦ Independence Day was designed by the first state propaganda agency,…
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