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Wabtec Train Manufacturing Workers Are on Strike

Alex N. Press Jacobin
Workers at the Wabtec locomotive manufacturing plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, have walked off the job. Their demands get to the heart of bigger questions about the nature of work and the role workers can play in fights like climate change.

The Popular Vote

Star Black Popular Vote
What really do we mean by the “popular vote”? The poet Star Black sees the consequences of misunderstanding.

There Is One Group the Roberts Court Really Doesn’t Like

JAMELLE BOUIE The New York Times
photo of the supreme court house overlayed with a sign saying Stand with Workersa
The American political system was not built with the interests of workers in mind. If labor is ever going to get what it needs, it probably won’t be with the helping hand of a judge or a justice.

Celebrating the Leadership and Comradeship of Charlene Mitchell

William P. Jones Portside
“People who truly believe in justice and equality, and peace and socialism, should not actually really care whether their contributions are individually noted,” Angela Davis asserted at a tribute to her friend and mentor, Charlene Mitchell, in 2009.

Abolition As Method

Kay Gabriel Dissent Magazine
Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Geography is written to be used.

Of Potato Latkes and Pedagogy

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Perspectives on History
The process of examining recipes and cooking instills concepts more deeply than traditional modes of assessment; learning about Jewish women just by reading texts would be particularly ahistorical.