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Daimler Truck Workers Are Strike-Ready in the Anti-Union South
Autoworkers in the South are currently engaged in a historic, high-stakes labor struggle against the multinational corporation Daimler Truck North America (DTNA). The labor contract between DTNA and...
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The Power of Finance Is Inherent to Capitalism
Much of the Left sees finance as being parasitic on industry. Financialization, in this view, amounts to financial institutions capturing the state, hollowing out the “real” economy, and hastening the...
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Limits of Green Capitalism
Despite the rather common neoliberal hallucination of eternal growth, the Club of Rome’s seminal study “Limits to Growth” (1972), showed that the catechism-like faith into endless growth, fabricated by...
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How Are US Tax Dollars Being Spent? Hint: The Pentagon Is Cashing In.
Every year at tax time, the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies releases a tax receipt to show where your federal income tax dollars go. Every year, militarism in all its...
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How Unions and Joe Biden Are Launching a New Frontier in American Manufacturing
Tom Bixler and several hundred of his co-workers produced top-quality glassware at the Libbey Glass plant in Toledo, Ohio, over the years while keeping the aging equipment there operating through sheer...
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Building Global Labor Solidarity: Where We Are Today (Early 2024)
Encouraged by Flora Tristan’s exhortation—greatly amplified by Marx and Engels—“Workers of the World, Unite!” (Armbruster-Sandoval, 2013), activists have been encouraging workers to build international...
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Project 2025: A Warning For Labor
The right to strike, the eight-hour day, and the minimum wage have only been recognized by federal law since the 1930s. Even those basic protections come riddled with loopholes. Important groups, such...
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The Sad Spectacle of Lesser-Evil Elections
One of the two major-party candidates for the presidency of the United States has allowed an decades-long ethnic cleansing to morph into a genocide, a horror that could be stopped with one phone call;...
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No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B...
Democracy Now! speaks with two of the Google employees who were arrested staging sit-ins on Tuesday at the company’s offices in New York City and in Sunnyvale, California, to protest the tech giant’s...
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Nobody “Earns” a Billion Dollars. We Need a Wealth Tax.
U.S. billionaires have seen their wealth nearly double since the Trump tax cuts took effect in 2017. In the meantime, the planet is getting hotter and the richest 1 percent of humanity accounts for...
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Militancy—and Beyond
“At a moment when the political climate for workers is far less hospitable than it was at the height of the New Deal, when right-wing ethnonationalism is competing for the loyalty of the working class,...
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Climate Crisis to Cost Global Economy $38 Trillion a Year by 2050
The climate crisis will shrink the average global income 19% in the next 26 years compared to what it would have been without global heating caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels, a study...
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In a Historic Victory, Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Vote Union
In a watershed victory, workers at the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted tonight “UAW, yes!” The company’s sole non-union plant will finally join the rest of the world. “If Volkswagen...
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Are the Flat Tax Folks Winning — or Have They Already Won?
What makes an income tax “fair”? Right-wing lawmakers the nation over have a ready answer. To be fair, they tell us, an income tax needs to be “flat.” Their core claim: In an evenhanded tax system with...
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Whose Side Are You on, the People or the Polluters?
It’s well known that Republicans are “friendly” to corporations. But, as Montana’s top elected officials, Gov. Greg Gianforte and Attorney General Austin Knudsen, increasingly side with the polluters,...
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Don’t Talk To Me About Solutions
It’s 2024 and I’m suspicious of “solutions”. Solutions to what, exactly? The excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that have already seen us breach the 1.5 degree limit set by the Paris Agreement?...
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1964’s Freedom Summer Offers a Model for the Voting Rights Work We Need to Do
The day after I graduated from college, I jumped into a car with my roommate and another friend and headed south to Mississippi. We were in good spirits after graduation, but we were in a racially...
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Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, Fifty Years Later
For forty years I have been writing an article about each decade of the revolution of April 25, 1974 that brought democracy back to Portugal after 48 years of dictatorship. The analysis of...
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How Reaganomics Fueled America’s Homelessness Crisis
Back in 1967, a friend of mine and I hitchhiked from East Lansing, Michigan to San Francisco to spend the summer in Haight-Ashbury. One ride dropped us off in Sparks, Nevada, and within minutes of...
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Jane McAlevey on UAW’s Astounding Victory in VW Tennessee & Her Fight Against...
Democracy Now! speaks with the celebrated labor organizer and writer Jane McAlevey about the historic victory for Volkswagen employees at a Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory who voted overwhelmingly to...
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