Portside

The award-winning poet Marge Piercy decries America’s refugee policies that would make an earlier poet, Emma Lazarus, weep.

Shipbuilding was a key symbol of the working-classes in Yugoslavia's early socialist years. But during the transition to a market economy in the 1990s shipyards began to close. Today, workers are directly organizing to save the industry.

Despite Trump’s destructive presidency, the Left made important strides this year — from electoral victories to strikes, union campaigns, movement organizing and popularizing left-wing policies. Insurgent candidates can push the agenda left.

Hundreds of asylum-seekers spent part of Christmas Eve in a downtown parking lot here without knowing where they’ll end up next. Lawmakers and immigrant rights groups scramble after ICE releases hundreds of migrants without alerting local shelters.

Military leaders literally don’t know what they’re doing with our money, but they want more. People on the left and right have had enough.

The right promised its anti-union campaigns would yield Republican victories in 2018. But unions have been bouncing back, as the GOP’s defeats make clear.