The first month of 2026 has seen the eruption of major social struggles in the US, with mass protests against ICE killings and dictatorship developing into a growing, class-based strike movement.

An interview by Ryan Stanton of Joe Burns—a labour lawyer, union activist and bargaining negotiator since the 1990s—about where the US union movement has gone wrong and what needs to change. Burns ...

The percentage of US workers belonging to unions fell one-tenth of 1 percent in 2024, reaching a new all-time low of just 9.9 percent. The number belonging to unions declined in both absolute and ...

After the recent Labour Day, I want to focus on the role of unions. This continues my reply to Taj Donville-Outerbridge’s op-ed of August 26. During an uprising, it is not uncommon that amid fighting ...

The fact that there is no absolute “pure” morality, that morality is always a class morality, that it depends on the person who applies it and the person to whom it is applied, that it depends on the ...

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ought to be a household name, given the decades she spent challenging an assortment of powerful forces, including big business, the police, politicians, and judges in her ...

Alex Snowdon traces the early development of capitalism and the struggle it generates against it Exploitative and deeply unequal class societies have existed for thousands of years.

Swedish social democracy produced one of the most humane societies in history. That wouldn’t have happened without a militant labor movement and a working-class political party.