Belabored Podcast #186: “A Boss Is a Boss”
Two organizers discuss recent efforts to unionize nonprofit workers. Plus: an interview with Chicago teacher Kenzo Shibata about the first day on the picket line.
Winter 2025
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The Abortion Rights Movement Must Rethink Its Strategy
In the face of an aggressive assault by the right, the abortion rights movement should abandon its defensive stance and advocate fully integrating abortion into the country’s healthcare system.
Trump’s Betrayal of Rojava
Turkey’s invasion of northeastern Syria is a terrible blow for the international left.
Why We Need a Working-Class Media
What could the political effects be of a media that actually served working-class Americans?
Scapegoat Country
Since the 2016 election, the American press has fixated on rural communities and created a dubious new genre: the Trump Country Safari.
The Obamanauts
What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama?
Know Your Enemy #9: Working-Class Conservatism, with Max Alvarez
Matt and Sam talk to Max Alvarez—writer, editor, and host of the podcast Working People—about growing up working-class and conservative in a mixed-race household.
Rural America Reimagined
Introducing our Fall 2019 special section, “Left Paths in Rural America.”
[EVENT | October 17] Fall Issue Launch: Why We Need a Working-Class Media
Join us on Thursday, October 17 at 7 p.m. at Verso Books in Brooklyn for the launch of our Fall 2019 issue.
Belabored Podcast #185: Riding for Deliveroo, with Callum Cant
An inside look at the gig economy. Plus: updates from the GM strike, a teachers’ strike looming in Chicago, and more.
A Limited Impeachment
Trump’s impeachment is long overdue. But the Democratic Party leadership’s desire to rush through proceedings points to fears about digging too deep into the corruption of the Washington establishment.
Meritocracy’s Casualties
The individualist credo is exacerbating already steep inequality and driving elites to protect their privilege by any means—even criminal ones.
Socialism Beyond Equality
We need to think not only about beating the 1 percent, but also about the kind of world we want to build, the kind of existence we want to have on this earth.
National Neoliberalism in Turkey
If progressive critics of neoliberalism aim to recuperate the national arena to regain policy space back from global capital, they also need to think hard about how to challenge capitalists they face at home.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Revolutions
Le Guin’s work is distinctive not only because it is imaginative, or because it is political, but because she thought so deeply about the work of building a future worth living.
