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Impending Strike in Las Vegas Exposes Labor Abuses in Service Sector Nationwide
Service work now dominates the economy. That changes how we build worker power, scholar Annie McClanahan says.
Democratic Party Leadership Still Refuses to Address the Root of Inequality
Three decades ago, it cleared a path that led toward the likes of the DOGE wrecking crew.
Policing Has Always Been a Tool to Repress the Working Class
Modern policing was born out of a series of transatlantic ruling class experiments to repress radical rebellion.
Trump Is Setting the US Economy Up for Another Great Financial Crisis
Trump and tech capitalists like Elon Musk are trying to become kingpins of a largely unregulated financial system.
Trump’s Attacks Are Designed to Exhaust Us. Here’s How We Fight Back.
Our fatigue under Trump is deliberately engineered. We must understand burnout as a tool of control in order to resist.
“Parasite” Director’s New Sci-Fi Film Holds Up a Mirror to Life Under Trump
Bong Joon-ho's “Mickey 17” is both a critique of gangster capitalism and an argument in favor of proletarian revolution.
Prisons Are Anti-Labor Institutions. We Need an Anti-Carceral Labor Movement.
Guard unions are pushing states to expand their prison budgets while schools face mounting austerity.
Washington Post Editor Quits After Bezos Orders Staff to Defend “Free Market”
Articles opposing the “free market” will no longer be published by The Post, Bezos warned the paper's opinion staff.
Behind Trump Tariffs Is Capital’s Warfare Against the Working Class
Trump’s tariffs will escalate exploitation and desperation of US workers. That’s the point.
What Do Trump’s Tariffs Really Mean for the US Working Class?
Trump’s challenge to the neoliberal order is aimed at increasing capitalists’ profits, not helping workers.