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The Corporate Thriller Lied to Us

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Criterion Channel is hosting a retrospective on Hollywood’s “corporate thrillers” from the 1980s through the early 2000s. If anything, their message about the capitalist rot in America’s institutions looks far too tame for how the last couple of deca

Is DNC Boosting Kamala for ’28?

Norman Solomon LA Progressive
Who are party leaders protecting most by not releasing an autopsy of the former vice president’s 2024 loss to Donald Trump?

What Starbucks Taught Me About Union-Busting

Jaz Brisack The Nation
A new labor nonprofit called Union Now is trying to help workers weather firings, delays, and first-contract battles. We could’ve used their help in our Starbucks campaigns.

This Week in People’s History, May 6–12, 2026

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Official portrait of Russian Czar Nicholas II
The Czar Saved His Neck, but Not Forever (1906), Major Demonstrations Need Lots of Planning, but Not Always (1970), If Ending Slavery Was Hard, Why Was Woman Suffrage Even Harder? (1866), A Big Step Down the Slippery Slope in Vietnam (1961)

Tony Mazzocchi Embodied the Best of the Labor Movement

Steve Early and Rand Wilson Jacobin
As an OCAW local and national officer, Mazzocchi juggled day-to-day union responsibilities with a commitment to civil rights, labor-based environmentalism, job safety reform, single-payer health care, nuclear disarmament, and union democracy.

Who Killed the Florida Orange?

Alexander Sammon Slate
Deep in desiccated Southern groves, the powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal, unrelenting decline. No one wants to face what that means.