In the decades after Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, many considered the country immunized from the far right. This has been challenged by the rise of Chega, the anti-immigrant party that won almost a quarter of the vote in Sunday’s election. Leader of far-right...
California boasts some of the most expensive cities in the country. Union organizing can help workers afford to live in those cities. At Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, 371 workers voted to form Monterey Bay Aquarium Workers United with AFSCME Council 57. (MBAWU)...
As Elon Musk and DOGE take a sledgehammer to federal agencies, corporate interests are mounting a coordinated effort to dismantle state-level rules and regulations, from environmental and consumer protections to worker safeguards. Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting...
As Donald Trump works to undermine the Social Security Administration, his ultrarich Social Security commissioner, Frank Bisignano, was just approved for a giant tax break on a $484 million capital gains sale. Frank Bisignano, commissioner of the Social Security...
The Trump coalition unites anti-corporate populists and libertarian futurists — two factions with irreconcilable views. The struggle over AI copyright underscores just how unstable that alliance has become. Elon Musk speaking with Donald Trump on November 19, 2024, in...
While the South Korean media has been focused on a snap presidential election, an important scandal has emerged involving the union that represents Samsung workers. It’s a cautionary tale about the difficulties facing organized labor in South Korea. Members of the...
The Inflation Reduction Act has helped create good union jobs in the clean energy sector. Republicans want to derail this progress to pay for tax cuts for the rich. The building trades are starting to fight back, and environmentalists should join them. Construction...
The New Jersey Transit engineers’ strike caught many commuters by surprise. But since 2019, the engineers have been working without a new contract while making less than their counterparts at Metro-North, Amtrak, and the Long Island Rail Road. Striking New Jersey...
For nearly two centuries, Karl Marx’s ideas have had a significant impact on US politics and intellectual life. In turn, Marx’s close study of the US informed the development of his ideas about capitalism and human freedom. Painting of Karl Marx in his study, ca....
Germany has clamped down on pro-Palestine protest more harshly than most other European states. Despite the threat of violent repression, protesters, many of whom were Jewish and Palestinian, gathered in Berlin to commemorate the Nakba. Police disperse a...
When United Food and Commercial Workers president Marc Perrone announced his retirement May 13, the union’s leadership immediately appointed his successor. This makes four presidents in a row first selected by UFCW leadership rather than by convention. Union members...
There are few events that have set the terms of Western politics more than the French Revolution. Socialists and liberals claim it as their legacy and the far right sees it as the moment in which traditional authority was irrevocably shaken. It is an event that is...