Tag: Labor
A Semester to Die For
In our latest dispatch, an English professor argues that plowing ahead with university reopening in the fall is akin to the Thatcherite mantra, “There is no alternative.”
Cops Off Campus and Out of Our Unions!
A member of an emergent radical caucus in CUNY’s PSC advocates expelling cop unions from all labor federations.
Fearless and Fired Up: Lessons from the 1930s
An interview with Mark Naison, author of “Communists in Harlem During the Depression,” on how the Communist Party organized beyond the workplace in the 1930s and its applicability to the current moment.
Brazil’s Perfect Storm
Ruy Braga analyzes the likely effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the government’s neo-Pentecostal popular base.
Get Their Knees Off Our Necks
Haley Pessin’s speech for Juneteenth 2020 addressing Amazonians United, rank and file workers at Amazon.
Middle School Can’t Be Digitized
A middle school teacher explains why we can’t just throw all of our lessons online in the face of COVID-19 and pretend that education is continuing as usual.
Defunding the Police Means Transforming Our Society
Gerald Smith speaks at today’s Juneteenth West Coast port shutdown against racist police violence, continuing the ILWU’s long history of waging antiracist struggles as class struggles.
“We Survive by Working in Their Homes, If They Refuse to Pay Us, How Will Our Homes Run?”
Three domestic workers from India talk about how the pandemic has exacerbated the worst features of working in the informal economy.
Bartending in the Apocalypse
Interview with James Brooke about his graphic vignettes from Bartending the Apocalypse, and excerpts from the work. More available on Instagram: @bartendingintheapocalypse
ILWU, ILA, and Teamsters Take Action in Honor of George Floyd
An interview with ILWU’s Clarence Thomas on race, class, and longshore work in relation to the current round of uprisings