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UK Professor Condemns Own University Over Collaboration With Oil Giant
A senior professor has accused his own university of betraying its values by working with ExxonMobil on a project that has been condemned as greenwash. Ian Williams, professor in applied environmental...
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Non-Alignment Today
The original non-alignment movement occured in 1961 following the Bandung Conference (Indonesia) held in 1955, which was attended by 29 countries, almost all of which had recently been liberated from...
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Local News Is Vital: Can We Survive the Climate Crisis Without It?
Local news has its finger on the pulse of our communities. When city council acts (or acts up), when disaster strikes, when corruption or scandal needs to be scrutinized, local news steps up. From our...
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Unions Support Student Protestors Against Campus Administrators and Police
As campus protests—and violent police repression—continue to roll across the country, some unions are getting involved. More than 2,700 protesters have been arrested on 64 college campuses since the...
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The Toughest Job Today’s Richest Ever Face?
Once upon a time, back in the middle of the 20th century, the smallest theater on Broadway could have comfortably accommodated a get-together of all the New Yorkers worth at least $100 million. Not...
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11,000% Return: Trump’s $1 Billion Offer Could Yield $110 Billion Windfall...
A new analysis reveals that the alleged $1 billion election year “quid pro quo” offer that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump made to executives of major oil company’s could, if they agreed to...
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Capitalism Attacks Argentine Workers and You May Be Next
As always when a representative of the right wing tells you he or she is campaigning to bring “freedom,” be afraid. Very afraid. For “freedom” in these cases means freedom for the richest financiers...
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What It’s Like Voting Union Inside Alabama Mercedes Plant
In the election on whether to join the United Auto Workers, being held over five days this week at the Mercedes plant in Vance, Alabama, the union negotiated rules to try to minimize management...
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‘Tick Tock’: Daimler Truck Workers Use Strike Threat to Win Big
North Carolina heavy truck and school bus manufacturing workers won 25 percent pay increases and ended wage tiers after an energetic contract campaign and strike threat against Daimler Truck. The...
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Big Oil and Civilization Don’t Mix
Prologue On May 10, 2024, my friend Jay Jones, emeritus professor of biology at La Verne University, invited me to see a documentary he was presenting to his students and colleagues. The documentary,...
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Denser Housing Can Be Greener Too
Cities across Aotearoa New Zealand are trying to solve a housing crisis, with increasing residential density a key solution. But not everyone is happy about the resulting loss of natural habitats and...
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The Strategy of the Green New Deal from Below
The Green New Deal from Below pursues strategic objectives that implement Green New Deal programs, expand the Green New Deal’s support, and shift the balance between pro- and anti-Green New Deal...
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Why Corporations Choose Lawlessness to Fight Unions
Workers in Towson, Maryland, have earned the distinction of becoming the first Apple retail workers in the nation to vote to strike over failed union negotiations with their employer. The approximately...
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How Solidarity Triumphs Over Corporate Greed
Management at Amfuel tried to bully Jo Tucker and her 200 co-workers—most of them Black women, a number of them single moms—into accepting dozens of unnecessary concessions in a new contract. For four...
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Economic Damage From Climate Change Six Times Worse Than Thought
The economic damage wrought by climate change is six times worse than previously thought, with global heating set to shrink wealth at a rate consistent with the level of financial losses of a...
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History of Co-Op City
In 1909, at a library in Manhattan’s Yorkville neighborhood, Abraham Kazan, a twenty-year-old union clerk who had grown up on the countryside estate of a Russian general in what is now Ukraine, and who...
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Alabama Mercedes Workers Lose First Union Election, Vow to Fight On
A no-holds-barred campaign by Mercedes management convinced a majority of workers at its Alabama factory complex to vote against forming a union. In addition to anti-union videos and mailings,...
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US Undergrads Are Getting an Extracurricular Crash Course in Labor Organizing
When Grinnell College wanted to begin compensating community advisors (CA), who work to provide students living in residence halls with programming and support for personal and academic issues, on an...
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How Union Reformers Passed the PRO Act in Vermont
If you’re a fan of unions, there’s been a lot to get excited about lately. Strikes and militancy are up, public support for labor is peaking, and the prospects for new organizing are better than...
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Auto Workers’ Loss at Mercedes-Benz Slows the UAW Organizing Drive, but Won’t...
Mercedes-Benz succeeded in defeating the United Auto Workers (UAW) in an election held in the company’s plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, but UAW President Shawn Fain sees the defeat as a temporary setback...
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Donald Trump’s Assault on the Wages of American Workers
Although Donald Trump, as president, proclaimed in his 2020 State of the Union address that he had produced a “blue-collar boom” in workers’ wages, the reality was quite different. Using his control of...
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The Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots
Cannabis can transform our materials economy and textiles industry, return carbon to the soil, provide sustainable housing material, nurture health and well-being and set us on a path to restorative...
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Worker Co-Ops Have a Role to Play in Socialist Strategy
Copenhagen, 1910. Here, at the beginnings of social democracy’s ascent in Europe, the Second International passed a resolution supporting cooperatives. While acknowledging that cooperation alone was...
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Retired New York City Teachers Rise and Run
They’ve really stepped in it. The incumbent Unity Caucus that runs the huge teachers union in New York City is facing a challenge from the Retiree Advocate slate who hope to take leadership of the...
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Housing, Not Handcuffs
On April 22nd, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case that focuses on whether unhoused — the term that has generally replaced “homeless” — people with no indoor...
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US Labor Today and the Way Forward
The labor movement in the United States used to be respected and looked to for leadership; people cared about what positions labor took, watched when they mobilized, noticed the causes they supported....
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Welcome to the Hedge-Fund Driven Neoliberal University
There can be little doubt that neoliberalism has undermined, if not crippled, the notion of higher education as a democratic public sphere—a protective and courageous space where students can speak,...
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Education in Gaza Has Been Decimated, but the Spirit of Refaat Alareer Will...
Palestinians have always been proud to have one of the lowest illiteracy rates in the world. Many Palestinian refugees, who lost their homes in the Nakba and Naksa, believe that investment in...
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How US Labor Law Constrains Unions’ Political Activity
A growing number of unions have taken a stand against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Yet US labor law throws up major obstacles to unions using their leverage to press political demands, including the...
View ArticleTo Win Big, Labor Has to Lose More
There’s no sugarcoating it: Mercedes workers’ loss last week was a punch in the gut. Hopefully we can soon get some sober assessments from worker leaders and staff organizers about what — if anything —...
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