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Wisconsin working people are at a cross roads. If we are to regain workplace rights we will have to show the employer how valuable we are. In the absence of that, even with effective political mobilization, the balance of forces will not change.

As more of Robinson’s books come back into print, the reviewer argues that reading them with his seminal work Black Marxism can enrich our understanding of racial capitalism and offer additional tools for fighting our present political impasse.

More than ever, many entrenched Democrats are worried about primary challenges from the left. Such fears are all to the good.

Workers at fast-food restaurant chains in 15 cities around the US went on strike on Tuesday demanding a raise in their minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Black civil-rights activists—and especially Black women—delivered on the promise of the Founding. Their victories are in peril.

Republicans are blaming renewable energy, when it’s the state’s powerful utilities that failed to prepare for the worst.

This new novel is a tale of union organizing, class struggle, and romance.

Essential workers prepare international strike on Women's Day, and more reports from popular movements and left parties

With the formidable pressure on Amazon, the new Democratic control in Washington, D.C. , and the unique circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic, the progressive current of Alabama's labor history may bode well for the union election at the tech giant.