In a new collection, Ilya Budraitskis provides a trenchant analysis of the ideological underpinnings of Putin’s Russia and the domestic political groups that have opposed his government.
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A conversation with Ben Davis, the author of Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy.
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Labor journalists discuss media coverage of the recent strike wave in Britain.
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The Italian far right has capitalized on the country’s profound economic dysfunction. But Meloni’s government will only bring more hardship to Italian workers.
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Slouching Towards Utopia is a rise-and-fall epic—but it is better at depicting the rise than explaining the fall.
If we think culture explains voting behavior, we should be talking about a culture of disempowerment and resignation before we talk about a culture of conservatism.
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Daisy Pitkin’s On the Line is one of the best books ever written about American trade unionism.
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In a matter of years, DSA has turned from a musty debate club for retired social democrats into an electoral powerhouse of young, ecumenical radicals. What’s next?
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Throughout the United States, racial separation remains a common feature of collective life. The consequences are significant for left political organizing aimed at building a multiracial working-class majority.
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The White House MasterClass series is a symptom of a mordant political culture in which power transforms a person into a celebrity.
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If it is actually built, Akon City will be a monument to capital, excess, and waste.
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If there’s a chance to make a better world, our best shot comes from building a working-class majority.
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A roundtable on Democrats and the left.
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On the left, talk of proletarian revolution has given way to vital debates about how to enact Medicare for All and a Green New Deal, revive unionism, and strip the power of the Supreme Court.
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Two congressional staffers discuss the push to unionize Capitol Hill.
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A conversation with Rachel Aviv, the author of Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us.
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Both merciless and humane, Happening presents abortion in the spirit of Simone de Beauvoir in the Manifesto of the 343—as something necessary to allow women the ability to realize their full potential as citizens.
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A conversation about the George W. Bush administration, the conservative religious publication First Things, and how today’s right became so deranged.
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In a tangled global economy, how can international labor solidarity go beyond symbolic support?
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British dockworkers join the podcast to talk about ongoing strikes in Liverpool and Felixstowe.
How have organizers claimed victories in a more hostile legal and political climate?
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Caroline Walker’s paintings are a reflection of modern labor conditions in an increasingly service-based economy.
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A group of strippers at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood hopes to break new ground in organizing their field nationwide as part of the Actors’ Equity Association.
A conversation about Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.
Abolitionists and advocates of criminal justice reform in Los Angeles County have amassed some impressive victories, laying out a vision for reducing incarceration and providing care that could have national significance.
In Scotland, Grangemouth oil refinery workers are just the latest to realize their power after two years of pandemic, when they were deemed essential—and watched industry profits spike—while they accepted pay freezes.
A raft of laws at the state level has given tenants new tools to fight eviction. But when it comes to the broader housing crisis, most elected leaders have done little more than kick the can down the road.
UPS workers are sharing photographs of triple-digit temperature readings inside their trucks. The Teamsters say drivers are suffering from heat-related illnesses at an alarming rate.
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The Fed’s decision to raise interest rates for the fourth time this year threatens to loosen the tightest U.S. labor market in decades. What would it look like if policymakers consolidated workers’ recent gains instead?
The president of the RMT joins the podcast to talk about the union’s recent strike and what’s next for rail workers in the UK.
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