Skip to main content

This Week in People’s History, Jun 11–17, 2025

Portside
Monument to a striking miner who was murdered by company guards
A Martyred Miner’s Sacrifice (1925), An Empty Threat (1775), ‘The Part Which Black Folk Played’ (1935), Danger! Curriculum Deviation! (1965), A Very, Very Unpopular Treaty (1960), How to Shrink an Economy (1930)

Flotilla Member Rima Hassan: Israel Is Breaking the Law, Not Us

Interview by Hanno Hauenstein Jacobin
This morning, Israeli authorities captured the aid boat Madleen, halting its mission to Gaza. Just hours before it was intercepted we spoke to Rima Hassan, a French member of the European Parliament who was aboard the vessel.

To Unionize Amazon, Disrupt the Flow

Benjamin Y. Fong Jacobin
Organizing logistics behemoths like Amazon and Walmart will require the labor movement to figure out how to disrupt the flow of goods across the supply chain rather than simply organizing individual workplaces — and that requires a major rethinking

MobLand Is the Platonic Ideal of Dad TV

Brian Tallerico AV Club
We're all Harry Da Souza. There has been a lot of discussion about the success of what some have called “dad TV,” shows not watched exclusively by men but targeting them through casting, concept, and execution.