Portside

She’s been canonized as a hero of both mainstream literature and radical politics. Who was she really?

Norman Rogers, an employee of a southern California refinery and second vice president of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 675, discusses how unions must engage in climate change policy decisions to protect the planet and leave no worker behind.

The prime growing area for Jersey tomatoes is a region now known as the Inner Coastal Plain, which covers more than 1,000 square miles in southern New Jersey, bordering the Delaware River to the west.

Experts estimate that the region will see 10 million new IT job openings by 2025, driven by outsourcing and "nearshoring" by American Tech companies.

In the 1960s and ’70s, a Chicago group known as “Jane” helped tens of thousands of women get abortions.

Nine patients remain of the many former leprosy patients who chose to continue to live in Kalaupapa despite the 1969 repeal of the Hawaii law that exiled them there until death.

Sylvain Cypel's "The State of Israel vs. The Jews" shows how bereft of human decency Israelis have become in their treatment of Palestinians, and how much Jewish moral patrimony has been given up in creating, supporting, and tolerating a Jewish State

Working for the New York Daily Tribune, Marx excoriated the British empire’s opium trade that brought China under its influence with a staggering human cost

Murdered by gangsters on a dictator’s orders in 1981, these pathbreaking Filipino labor organizers fought for union democracy.

While inflation-hawks are quick to highlight the cost of higher prices, they rarely, if ever, mention the costs associated with the higher interest rate policy they recommend, costs that include higher unemployment and lower wages for working people.