Australia’s Greens just gave their backing to the government’s woefully inadequate climate bill. In order to rebuild a movement that can force real action on climate change, the Greens must use their leverage to rally opposition to Labor’s hollow symbolism. Greens...
Pharma companies and shrewd investors are poised to make massive profits off the medical legalization of psychedelics. For now, they’re united with the psychedelic movement’s true believers — an uneasy truce that must break in one party’s favor. The Biden...
By preventing centralized bargaining, existing labor laws make Starbucks organizing an uphill battle. A short-lived law from 1990s Ontario points to how incremental store-by-store wins could be transformed into more powerful, broader-based bargaining. Starbucks...
Jordan Peterson keeps running his mouth on Marx and Marxism, but a new conversation with Kyle Kulinski shows that the Canadian neo-reactionary has forgotten what little he ever knew about the subject. Given Jordan Peterson's interest in critiquing Marx's analysis, it...
French socialist thinker Daniel Guérin lived a life of extraordinary political commitment, from anti-fascist and anti-colonial struggles to his pioneering advocacy of gay liberation. Guérin’s writings and record should be a touchstone for the modern left. French...
Since Bernie Sanders’s defeat in 2020 and the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US left has been largely disorganized. The time is ripe for Bernie and the Squad to create a new mass organization to confront today’s crises. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...
The media isn’t conveying how serious the Taiwan situation is. China is willing to fight for the island — which has been part of China for hundreds of years — and the use of tactical nuclear weapons can’t be ruled out. Tourists look on as a Chinese military helicopter...
Every month, I release a report on the Starbucks unionization drive (see May 2022, June 2022) using data from the National Labor Relations Board supplemented by data from More Perfect Union. This is the report for July 2022.
Workers at the Chicago nonprofit LGBTQ health provider Howard Brown say management has not prioritized what’s best for either patients or workers — and that they’re organizing a union to change that. Howard Brown workers are currently voting to form a union. (Howard...
They’re grotesque symbols of plutocratic wealth and massive drivers of the climate crisis. We should ban private jets. The private jet of country singer Brad Paisley, photographed in 2010. (Dave Subelack / Flickr) Temperatures in the UK and across the world...
The public history of Manhattan’s Chinatown often exoticizes the neighborhood and its residents. But in its streets and its sweatshops, Chinatown has long been the site of mass struggles by Chinese immigrants. A mural on Mosco Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown by Jess...
UPS drivers are facing dangerously hot working conditions this summer. But instead of installing AC, or making changes that would reduce exposure to extreme heat, the company is installing cameras to surveil workers on the job. Now drivers are fighting back. Drivers...