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Despite its outcome, this week’s NBA wildcat strike provided a crucial lesson for all of us: we have to disrupt owners’ profits and engage in collective action if we have any hope of making change.

“I’m trying to tell you that the world is beautiful,” writes Brooklyn poet Cynthia Manick; and in her rendering it is.

By striking, the players in the NBA, MLB, and beyond have brought their bosses to the table and launched a national conversation.

Union membership in the UK hit a historic low (23%) a few years ago. The pandemic has reminded many workers that the unions are their protective shield in a situation where employers were ordering them back to work in unsafe circumstances.

An epochal general strike of workers in Seattle a century ago was not just an event in labor history but a testament to what workers can achieve when they organize. The book under review charts sharp lessons for today.

This book uses the history of photography and the history of imperialism to shed light on both the work of images and on the work of colonial and imperial domination.

Biden believes the future of auto workers can be as great as it was in the 1940s and 1950s, an era of growth for the auto manufacturers.

In a powerful new film, director Katherin Hervey explores a program at San Quentin prison that pairs inmates with ‘surrogate victims’ as a form of therapy

Changes to the guild’s cash-strapped health plan could force thousands of seniors off their coverage in the middle of a pandemic.

I continue to seek healing in the kitchen, the way I recover from the churning news cycle of sickness and police violence.