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A time to try our souls

The labor movement has to become a movement that inspires people with a broader vision of social justice. There’s something fundamentally wrong with the priorities of this society, and unions have to be courageous enough to say it.

It’s been done before—we can do it again in New York and beyond

Since dockworkers operate at a crucial “choke point” in the military supply chain to Israel, their boycotts are a powerful form of solidarity with Gaza.

Dean Baker speaks with historian Dr. William P. Jones about his book "The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of the Civil Rights Movement."

How the 1937 Oshawa GM strike and radical industrial unionism reshaped labour—and why its lessons matter today