3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (257+ words) Progressive candidates endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders swept to victory on Tuesday in Democratic primaries across the'US. Sanders-backed candidates in California also put in strong showings, with former San Francisco city supervisor Jane Kim advancing to the general election in…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (624+ words) PORT SUDAN'The rain falls gently on the tin roof of a'cramped workshop as Areej Hussein cradles her overheating i Phone 15. Around her, 11 young women sit, their stories of displacement heavy in the sweltering'air. The film project emerged between filmmaker Mohammed…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (577+ words) These poems come from my forthcoming collection, When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America, a'book produced by Palestinian grief and anticolonial resistance, in this genocidal'moment.' While poetry cannot materially save us, it can become a'vessel through which one arrives at…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1694+ words) New jail construction is quietly booming across the United States. Some may be surprised to learn that during the most intense jail-building years, from 1990 to 2005, a'new facility opened every 10'days. There are nearly 2'million people presently caged in more than…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (213+ words) New comics on the state of the world by Brian Mc Fadden, Ruben Bolling, Tom Tomorrow and Jen Sorensen. Turn the Tables on the Oligarchy and Strike! New comics on the state of the world by Brian Mc Fadden, Ruben…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (328+ words) The May Day holiday is rooted in the history of collective worker action. But it's grown into much'more.' May Day also represents a'fight for a'different vision of society, one in which working people strip power away from the ultra-rich who…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1103+ words) In 2021, workers in Buffalo, New York made history by becoming the first Starbucks store in the United States to form a'union. Five years later, and after a "the most aggressive and illegal union busting campaign in the modern history of…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (21+ words) Tomorrow, a judge will rule whether to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate crimes by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz....

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1150+ words) In 1948, the radical sociologist C. Wright Mills published a'book called The New Men of Power, which examined the careers of post-war labor leaders who emerged from industrial union struggles in the 1930s. At the time, the author was hopeful that labor's progressive…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1694+ words) In late August 2025, I'sat in on a'meeting of Chicago's Belden Sawyer Tenant Association (BSTA) and interviewed members about their six-month rent strike for Shelterforce. The tenant union formed and launched its rent strike after members learned their once affordable building…...