Out of the Closet, Into the Streets
The revolutionary fervor of May ’68 didn’t end with a general strike. It fueled radical demands for years to come, and brought new causes into the mainstream—not least of them LGBT rights.
Winter 2025
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The Collective Power of #MeToo
Now we know the issue that unites women across workplaces is abuse by more powerful men, how do we come up with demands that move beyond naming and shaming?
Marx at 200: Just Getting Started
In our fully globalized world, Marx’s ideas still conform to a deeply felt sense about what capital does to our labor.
Marxism’s Fatal Flaw
Marx’s social-democratic critics recognized a fundamental point that the great economist missed: that a better world was not inevitable, but achievable, and that their job was to bring that world into being through politics.
Belabored Podcast #150: Lessons Learned on the Picket Line
As education strikes continue to rock the country, we talk with two striking workers—Ian Bradley Perrin, a graduate employee at Columbia University, and Arizona teacher Noah Karvelis.
Normcore
Channeling the anti-Trump #Resistance, a slew of recent books seeks to reduce democracy to a defense of political “norms.” But overcoming today’s crisis will take more political imagination.
Why the Teachers’ Revolt Must Confront Racism Head On
Race is not an add-on to “bread-and-butter” contract issues. It shapes the terrain of struggle.
Talking Back to the Patriarchy
It is in the interest of women of all generations to invent a complex, resistant, and sexually curious strain in feminist thought and action. History can show us how.
Trump’s Triangle Fire
The blaze that killed a Trump Tower resident in early April recalls a long of history of developers and corporations putting profit over safety—an ethos that informs not only Trump’s business but his presidency.
Suicide, Watch
“Jilly determined to wait at least four hours before checking the status of her farewell post so she wouldn’t look desperate, but then she remembered that she didn’t have long left. . . .” A short story.
A Strike Against Trumpism at Columbia
Faced with the unionization of its graduate workers, Columbia University has aligned itself not with free speech and enlightenment, but with the Trump administration.
The Class Politics of Teeth
Inequalities in oral health and dental access reflect our deepest social and economic divides.
A Dismal Report Card on Global Inequality
A new report, based on the work of Thomas Piketty and his colleagues, offers a stark picture of the increasing concentration of wealth and income at a global scale.
Belabored Podcast #149: Voices from the Labor Notes Conference 2018
In a series of interviews from Labor Notes, Sarah and Michelle talk to worker-organizers from South Korea, Puerto Rico, Minnesota, and beyond about building rank-and-file power around the globe.
Disembowel Enoch Powell
Fifty years ago, British politician Enoch Powell set the template for a racist neoliberal populism that has reached its apotheosis today.
