Feminism for the 99% with Tithi Bhattacharya
View Transcript Striking women have begun to reclaim feminism as a project of working-class struggle against not only patriarchy’s domination of women by men but also against capitalism’s domination of …
LA Teachers Strike with Sarah Jaffe
The teacher strike wave continues as more than 30,000 members of United Teachers Los Angeles walk picket lines not only for the higher wages that they deserve but also for …
A Post-Janus Plan for Labor
Janus was an entirely expected and atrocious decision. The conservative business interests that successfully obliterated private sector unions hope it will do the same to their public-sector counterparts. Chris Maisano, …
Struggle and the State
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West Virginia and Labor after Janus with Sarah Jaffe and Gabriel Winant
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The Militant 70s Labor Movement You Never Heard of with Lane Windham
Everyone agrees that the 1970s was the beginning of the end of capitalism as we had known it since the New Deal. But historian Lane Windham makes it clear that …
Workers’ Rights Are Students’ Rights
Student workers at Rutgers University are fighting for $15 an hour. Undergraduate history major and dining-hall worker Danny Taylor of @RutgersUSAS talks about their struggle. Thanks to Verso Books for …
Alex Press on Collective Action to Fight Sexual Harassment
The exposure of Weinstein’s predations has reignited widespread fury over the longstanding problem of sexual harassment and assault—especially in the workplace. Jacobin editor @alexnpress discusses two new pieces she wrote …
Sarah Jaffe: We Didn’t Start the Class War
Workers have for years faced a neoliberal onslaught administered by a bipartisan establishment of technocratic elites who have ensured the redistribution of wealth into the hands of the rich. This …