A Trumpist Constitution?
Conservative judges are advancing a vision of a country divided by religion, culture, and race, where Christians, white men, and corporate interests get special constitutional protection. We need a strategy to respond.
Spring 2025
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Water Democracy
Farmers in New Mexico have banded together to protect scarce water resources from developments that could end their way of life. Their collective activity is a model for grassroots politics in the age of climate change.
No Power without Organizing
Workers must build durable collective identities on their own behalf, and unions must institutionalize that social solidarity.
Belabored Podcast #175: Shut off the Apps, with International Striking Uber and Lyft Drivers
Drivers and organizers in New York, Los Angeles, and the UK talk about Wednesday’s strike.
Daniel Bell at 100
Bell never quite reconciled the Jewish conservative and the Yiddish radical within him. This tension helped generate some of his most important and creative insights.
[EVENT | May 14] Spring Issue Launch: Labor’s Comeback
Join us in celebrating our spring issue, “Labor’s Comeback.”
In Memory of Martin Kilson
Long-time Dissent contributor and editorial board member Martin Kilson died on April 24 at the age of eighty-eight.
What Milwaukee Can Teach the Democrats about Socialism
The Democratic Party didn’t choose Milwaukee for its 2020 convention because of its radical past. But the city’s history shows how socialism worked in the United States—and could work again.
Airport Workers Strike Back: An Interview with Sara Nelson
“This is about reviving a labor movement that really fights for the working class.”
New Youth in China
On the hundredth anniversary of a youth movement that kickstarted the Chinese Communist Party, student activists are using Marxism to rebel against the party.
The Venezuelan Crisis
Socialists need to fight against the dangerous and destabilizing actions of the Venezuelan opposition and the United States, while supporting the vast majority of the Venezuelan people in their struggle to regain democracy.
A Seat at the Table: Sectoral Bargaining for the Common Good
We must once again imagine a legal regime that encourages workers’ collective activity and gives their organizations real power in the governing process.
Belabored Podcast #174: Stop & Strike
Stop & Shop workers staged the biggest private-sector strike in years. We talk to two of the strikers about what they won.
The Mass Movement That Toppled Omar al-Bashir
The Sudanese protesters’ victory built on a long history of opposition to the country’s dictatorship. Now, they are determined to create a civilian government and avoid military rule.
Making the Monument
At the dedication for the Lincoln Memorial, President Harding portrayed Lincoln as the president who “maintained union and nationality” rather than the president who ended slavery. Changing the monument’s meaning took political struggle.
