The following excerpt has been reprinted with permission and is from the book, Labor’s Untold Story (1955). I first saw Labor’s Untold Story in 1980 when I was involved in anAmalgamated Transit Union (ATU) organizing drive and a retiredsupporter in the community gave his old copy to my coworker. Then myfellow worker gave it to […]
Rutgers AAUP-AFT members marching during their most recent contract dispute. In the foreground, a sign reads “Equal Pay For Equal Work.” (Photo courtesy of Rutgers AAUP-AFT) A recent Nature editorial¹ highlighting student mental health struggles across graduate programs in the United States failed to address the crisis for what it is: a symptom of a […]
Committed revolutionaries: get a job at Amazon and help us build working class power! A global crisis is unfolding and the left must seize the moment. The coronavirus pandemic — showing no sign of slowing –has triggered an overdue recession. And as capitalists shed jobs, Amazon is hiring en masse. The company has just announced […]
The utter rout of the Labour Party in the 2019 British elections has raised serious questions about the immediate viability of an electoral road to socialism “across the pond.” Some commentators have since tried to distance the democratic socialism of Jeremy Corbyn from that of his American counterpart Bernie Sanders. However, after the latter’s underperformance […]
There is a distinction in the Left right now which divides older parts of the US Left from the newer organizations which have grown since the Trump presidency. On the one hand is a conception of politics as a series of line positions and principles held in abstract. This idea reaches its zenith with a […]