The United Auto Workers’ Brandon Mancilla explains why his union has continued to oppose the genocide in Gaza, why slaughter abroad is tied to workers’ decline in living standards at home, and the union’s pushback to Donald Trump’s war on higher education. UAW members...
Carnivals in Germany have long satirized the powerful. Calls to keep politics out of the festivities are now being used to silence dissent. A Carnival float mocks Elon Musk, the German party AfD, and the United States during the annual Rose Monday parade on March 3,...
Great powers often decline through self-inflicted blows. By starting a trade war he was unable to follow through on, Donald Trump may have just dealt a severe one to the United States. President Donald Trump attends the White House Easter Egg Roll on April 21, 2025....
The NDP helped build Canada’s welfare state. Now, under pressure from Donald Trump’s tariffs and a shifting political terrain, the party risks electoral annihilation as voters split between technocratic centrism and right-wing populism. Canada’s New Democratic Party...
Rutger Bregman’s book Moral Ambition calls for successful people to use their talents to “make a difference.” But he’s suspicious of systemic change — making his call for personal morality into a shallow exercise in self-help. Rutger Bregman is seen during his speech...
There are no guarantees that any approaches, new or old, to reversing the labor movement’s decline will succeed. But Eric Blanc makes a case for why we should wager on worker-to-worker unionism. Starbucks union members and their supporters, including baristas who have...
On April 25, Italians celebrate liberation from Fascism. One leading partisan was Ilio Barontini, a Communist who helped lead Ethiopia’s resistance against Benito Mussolini’s colonial occupation. Portrait of Ilio Barontini. (Wikimedia Commons) Giuseppe Di Vittorio...
Amid all the confusing signals, China is clearly the prime target for Trump’s trade agenda. China’s best response to tariffs would be to rely more on domestic consumption than exports, but executing that turn presents a huge challenge for its leaders. Chinese...
After the bloody repression of the Indonesian left in the 1960s, Suharto’s regime wrote it out of the history books. Indonesian communists played a crucial role in developing national consciousness among workers and peasants against Dutch colonial rule. Members and...
You’ve been saving for retirement. But Wall Street has been using your savings to erode union strength, inflate asset prices, and consolidate its control over the economy. The logo of US multinational investment company BlackRock is seen at the company’s display stand...
As American unions denounce Donald Trump’s deportation of Kilmar Abrego García to El Salvador, it’s worth recalling when US labor used its collective power to resist repression in that country in the 1980s. US labor representatives meet with jailed Salvadoran trade...
Ryan Coogler’s vampires-n-blues thriller Sinners is everything Hollywood tells us the masses don’t want: Set a hundred years in the past, it’s not a sequel, reboot, or adaptation of anything. And yet it’s a smash hit with moviegoers. Still from Sinners. (Warner Bros....