Both labor and the reproductive rights movements are fighting for the same thing: the right to control our own lives. Abortion rights advocates demonstrate outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, May 18, 2022. (Bonnie Cash / Getty Images) Abortion: it’s a topic...
China did not develop capitalism during the 18th century, despite having a market economy as strong as Britain’s. The raw material for China’s 20th-century capitalist takeoff came from an unlikely figure: Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong (1893–1976). (Universal Images Group via...
Inflation is eroding paychecks and rising interest rates are hurting people with mortgages. Anthony Albanese’s government could defend workers’ living standards by taxing the rich and controlling prices, but Labor’s neoliberal orthodoxy stands in the way. The...
Henry Cuellar, the conservative, antiabortion Democratic congressman — who Nancy Pelosi called a “fighter for hardworking families” — has shocked the labor movement with a radical bill seeking to eviscerate workers’ rights. Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX) leaves a...
Canada’s Starbucks organizing wave is moving eastward from British Columbia, with a store in Alberta going union earlier this month. Poetically, the Starbucks union win is on anti-labor Alberta premier Jason Kenney’s home turf. The first Starbucks store in Alberta,...
The British rail union leader Mick Lynch has recently gone viral for his media appearances defending his union's strike. In an interview, Lynch discusses that strike, the media firestorm he's helped spark, and how workers can defeat Britain's superrich. RMT leader...
Writer-director Jordan Peele’s mysterious third film, Nope, draws on genre tropes from both alien invasion films and Westerns, but it ends up with something altogether original: a Hollywood spectacle about spectacle. Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Brandon Perea star...
We are living in an age of abundance for visions of postcapitalist futures. This is a good thing: there is a concerted effort underway to imagine our world differently, and there is a growing audience eager to hear it all. Jonathan Crary’s latest book, Scorched Earth:...
Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin have reached a deal for an energy, health care, and tax policy bill after Manchin has delayed and watered it down. But the exact details of the bill, as well as its package, are still far from guaranteed. Senator Joe Manchin speaks to...
In early February, Bernie Sanders advocated US involvement in peace talks to head off an “enormously destructive war” in Ukraine. We should have listened. Senator Bernie Sanders speaking with attendees at the 2019 California Democratic Party State Convention in San...
Biden’s climate bill is better than nothing — but just barely. “It’s a renewable energy revolution on top of a fossil fuel build-out,” says one climate advocate: in other words, a historic clean energy investment chained to a fossil fuel giveaway. Senate Energy and...
In 1945, Italian fascists saw US forces as occupiers, not liberators. Yet in postwar decades, neofascists sought to insert themselves into the Western anti-communist alliance: an “Atlanticism” that continues to inspire the far right today. Young members of the Italian...