The House That Marx Built
The incomplete or fragmentary state of Marxism is a sign of its ongoing life. It remains unfinished because so does history.
Spring 2025
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Marxism for Tomorrow
An intelligent left today can neither live within nor without Marx’s thought. Marxism today is most useful when it is erratic, irreverent, non-doctrinaire.
Belabored Podcast #93: The Good, The Bad, and the Hopeful
A look back at year’s best and worst moments for labor, and what there is to look forward to in 2016, for workers from China to Chicago and everywhere in between.
What Should Unions Do Now?
For U.S. labor, this is a moment of great peril but also great potential, unmatched since the New Deal era.
Collective Bargaining 3.0
In addition to reimagining who workers bargain with, we must expand what they bargain for. Public sector unions often address similar issues at the bargaining table that community organizations tackle legislatively.
Labor Needs New Ideas
Labor needs to argue more. Unions always need solidarity, but it should not be the solidarity of the stolid and defeated.
How a Group of Migrants Fought for $15 and Worker Power—And Won
“You feel free—you feel this is your business,” says trafficking survivor Judith Daluz of the cleaning cooperative where she is now a worker-owner.
Beyond the Polluters
Bernie Sanders’s climate plan offers a welcome alternative to the vagueness of the Paris Agreement. But to win over a broader public, a leftist climate agenda will require a vision of a “just transition” that goes beyond our energy system.
Toward a Post-Zionist Left
The left must move beyond the false binaries of liberal Zionism and embrace a post-Zionist politics of civil rights and nonviolent resistance.
With a counter-argument by Susie Linfield.
Is a Left Zionism Possible?
The spirit of left Zionism, which was strong enough to build a country, has receded to the margins of Israeli politics. Can it be revived?
With a counter-argument by Joshua Leifer.
Booked: A Global History of Time
An interview with historian Vanessa Ogle about her new book The Global Transformation of Time.
A Defense of Civil Libertarianism 
Defending civil liberties is not merely a “strategy” or a means to some other end. One can, and should, oppose both torture and endless war.
In response to Samuel Moyn.
Civil Liberties and Endless War
Civil libertarians have tolerated the normalization of perpetual, if more sanitary, war.
With a response by David Cole.
Trumping History
The Trump phenomenon is best understood as an amalgam of three different, largely pathological strains in American history and culture.
Belabored Podcast #92: Don’t Mourn, Organize!
A celebration of pioneering union activist and radical troubadour Joe Hill.
