Salt of the Earth | Movie

Based on an actual strike against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico by Mexican-American workers seeking wage parity with Anglo workers in other mines and to be treated with dignity by the bosses. Stars Juan Chacon, Rosaura Revuelta, Will Geer. Full story of how the movie was made.

Before Roe

Peter Neil Carroll
They say you can’t go home again, but the Supreme Court says otherwise. Peter Neil Carroll’s Before Roe offers a glimpse of “normal” from the bad old days.

The Memo Writer

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
Jennifer Abruzzo, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, has outlined an agenda that would transform the American workplace.

Who Is Working-Class, and Why It Matters

Van Gosse Convergence
Throughout U.S. history, class has been bound up with other forms of oppression—so the disenfranchisement of Black men after Reconstruction decisively shifted class relations.