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How Union Democracy Builds Labor’s Strike Power

Alex Press Dissent Magazine
The UAW’s reform movement brought membership back into the fold, harnessing their energy and forging it into a weapon that could force the companies to bend.

Capitalism Is Draining the Life From Our Culture Industries

Dean Van Nguyen Jacobin
Culture industries are dominated by a few big corporations that prefer to keep flogging old stories instead of taking a risk on something new. Creative workers can still produce fresh ideas, but they’re snuffed out before they get a chance to breathe

Striking Amazon for the Holidays

Alex N. Press Jacobin
Amazon workers at seven warehouses walked off the job starting yesterday, in a major escalation of the Teamsters’ efforts to organize the company. In New York, the strikers faced repression from the police.