After the end of World War II, the U.S. employer class—the capitalists—faced overlapping threats, both domestic and foreign. On the domestic side, a coalition of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), two socialist parties, and a communist party had grown large and powerful during the 1930s Great Depression.
United Steelworkers Lead Mobilization Drive as American Unions Face Growing Vulnerability
The USW must navigate factionalism while championing labor rights amid rising anti-union pressures and global trade fragmentation.
Why Sandbagging Public Servants Invites Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Workers who issue licenses and permits for the city of Dallas fought back in 2024 when officials moved them into a building that failed to meet the very same safety requirements they enforce at dozens of other office towers.
How Worker-Owned News Outlets Are Changing the Media Industry
For growing numbers of media companies, employee ownership offers journalistic freedom and job stability.
‘Only the People Can Save the People,’ Say Migrant Workers
The National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) embodies an ethos of “solidarity, not charity,” in both fire relief and immigrant rights.
Time for Truthful Narratives on Immigration
The “migrant crisis” was manufactured and is the fault of both Trump and Biden. We need to understand that the U.S. needs immigrants more than immigrants need the U.S.
A Reformist Program on Immigration (or What Harris Might Have Said)
The immigration issue has split and/or weakened both center and left parties and movements across many nations in recent years.
U.S. and China Why Not a Deal?
An old theme within social theory holds that societies with very unequal distributions of wealth can sustain their social cohesion so long as total wealth is growing.
Why It’s Essential for America to Own Supply Chains
A knot formed in Sam Phillips’s stomach a few months ago when he learned that corroded titanium—sold with faked documents—somehow made it into doors and other components on civilian airliners.
A Circular Economy
Latino community members in Southern California use the tanda system for mutual financial support.
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