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The Industrial Revolution's chief product was not goods, but a new class of laborers who owned nothing and worked to survive. Historian Peter Linebaugh traces the creation of this working class through the violent enclosure of the commons they once r

Who owns the Arctic?

We can’t let gig-worker protections remain dependent on each new administration’s priorities. We need to experiment with new approaches, from passing strong state classification laws to scaling employer-of-record systems that give gig workers stabili

Barbara Kopple’s films Harlan County USA and American Dream captured labor struggle as it was happening: on picket lines, inside unions, and under pressure. Decades later, both remain some of the finest labor documentaries ever made.

The Haymarket Martyrs got a monument of their own in the cemetery where they rest, initiated and funded by working-class people—not “city fathers.

Experts say it won’t work. Spending on image should be “like investing in jets, bombs and missile interceptors,” Israel’s foreign minister says.

Walkouts, marches and other gatherings held for ‘May Day Strong’ demonstrations across the country

Walkouts, marches and other gatherings held for ‘May Day Strong’ demonstrations across the country

The workers of Uptown and The Bronx have been making the demand for a better life for over a century but Washington has ignored their demands for too long. I’m running to make sure it finally has an answer.

On May 1 1944, Wehrmacht soldiers shot 200 communists in Athens. Recently photographs of the massacre surfaced online, reopening old wounds.