
How the Ivy League Collaborates with Donald Trump
Top university officials at Columbia and Yale have found in Trump an ally in their longstanding efforts to resist graduate employees’ efforts to unionize.
Top university officials at Columbia and Yale have found in Trump an ally in their longstanding efforts to resist graduate employees’ efforts to unionize.
Trump’s promises notwithstanding, many factory workers in the Rust Belt are just as frustrated after the election as they were before. Sarah Jaffe speaks to three labor organizers in Indiana to understand why.
Organizers and participants in three recent strikes—the Yemeni bodega strike, the taxi workers’ strike at JFK airport, and last year’s Verizon strike—discuss labor under Trump.
George Borjas argues that a protectionist approach towards immigration would be good for American workers. Economists almost universally disagree.
Tressie McMillan Cottom talks about her new book, Lower Ed, and why the expansion of the for-profit college industry is a labor issue.
Join Sarah Jaffe, Michelle Chen, Pam Galpern, Bhairavi Desai, and Rabyaah Althaibani for a discussion about how labor can fight Trump.
Having gained “trifecta” control over the state’s government in November, Iowa Republicans are implementing a big-business agenda with astounding speed—and devastating implications for workers.
An interview with Olympic silver medalist Monique Lamoureux-Morand on why the U.S. women’s hockey team are threatening not to play in the upcoming World Championship.
Two new histories show how the CIO of the 1930s and ’40s led the charge for racial equality not just on the shop floor but at the national level, precipitating the Democratic Party’s embrace of civil rights.
Actor and activist Danny Glover and worker Morris Mock talk about the March on Mississippi and the fight for a union at the state’s Nissan plant.
In support of the International Women’s Strike on March 8th—a day of action planned by women in more than fifty different countries—Dissent presents a series of socialist feminist highlights from our archives.
As the Trump administration intensifies its war on immigrants, undocumented workers are resisting with the most effective weapon: a refusal to be afraid.
For black lives to truly matter, we need labor rights for all workers—including prison laborers and those in the drug and sex trades.
Following last week’s Day Without Immigrants, organizers share their insights about how to fight Trump at work and in the streets.
For nearly two centuries, immigrants have been among the U.S. left’s most important partisans. As a new mass movement comes into being, they must again be at the heart of it.