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Book Review, Tell the Bosses We’re Coming: A New Action Plan for Workers in the Twenty-First Century, by Shaun Richman. Monthly Review Press, 2020.

Politics and special interests, not economic constraints, are what’s keeping the U.S. Postal Service from becoming a hub for affordable banking and other valuable community services in the 21st century.

Advocates have overcome opposition from conservative Democrats to secure four weeks of paid leave in the House budget bill, but more obstacles remain

U.S. school bus drivers in nationwide strikes over poor pay and Covid risk Drivers are left ‘begging for better pay’ even as the school bus driver shortage is worsening in the new school year.

Sudanese women took part in the revolution in large numbers for the same reasons they are now part of the resistance against this treacherous coup: Their human rights are at stake.

Is Biden ready to insist that national economic planning is not just ideologically permissible but urgently necessary?

Occasionally, in politics and social-economic struggles, there occur "moments of rupture," periods of dizzying and dramatic change when hosts of opportunities present themselves and existing arrangements of power are radically altered.

A new collection explores the early twentieth-century artists and institutions that made the Black Chicago Renaissance possible.

This article by Michael Goldfield and Cody R. Melcher introduces a new “Moments of Rupture” series from Organizing Upgrade, meant to draw lessons from prior key historic moments for organizers today.

In Priya Fielding-Singh’s book “How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America,” the author argues that increasing access to food requires addressing underlying structural problems.