The Lost Art of Looking at Nature
While David Attenborough’s work rarely gives center stage to climate change, his project has always been to shift how humans relate to nature.
Spring 2025
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Belabored: Can the United Auto Workers Be Democratized? With Justin Mayhugh
For decades, the United Auto Workers has been controlled by a tight-knit group of insiders. Now members are voting in a historic referendum on how the union elects its central leadership.
Belabored: Toward a Liberatory Unionism, with Eve Livingston
Eve Livingston’s new book, Make Bosses Pay, aims to get young people connected to unions and to push unions to engage more with the working class as it is today: diverse, precarious, and perhaps on the brink of rebellion.
Belabored: Women on Labor’s Frontline, with Jo Grady
Jo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union in the United Kingdom, talks about the prospects for a truly feminist labor movement.
A Woman Is Afraid
Fear and rage can be an entry point into the rejection of violence against women but not the termination or sum of our collaborations.
The Battle to Frame the Defeat
Four responses to the UK’s general election.
Belabored Podcast #184: Organizing the Unorganizable, with Jason Moyer-Lee
We hear about a new union in the UK organizing everyone from foster care workers to Uber drivers. Plus: an interview with a striking General Motors worker.
Stopping the Deportation Machine
The Stansted 15 faced heavy charges for preventing a flight from deporting migrants from the UK. They avoided jail time, but the practices they protested are still in place.
Belabored Podcast #129: A New Dawn for Labour? With Ronan Burtenshaw
Ronan Burtenshaw joins us to discuss last week’s election upset and what’s next for the UK left.
Why Is the Labour Party in a Mess?
Since 2015 the British Labour party has sought to distance itself from New Labour and develop its populist appeal under left-winger Jeremy Corbyn. Why hasn’t it worked?
The British Left at a Crossroads
To guarantee its relevance and survival, the British left must choose between two options for contemporary resistance and reconstruction.
How the British Far Right Went Mainstream
From the National Front to UKIP, the British far right has a long history of linking social and economic grievances to immigration, while Conservatives play along. The left’s job is to unpick this connection.
The Left Case for Brexit
In casting its lot with the undemocratic European Union, the British left is making a profound mistake.
The Right-Wing Roots of Britain’s EU Referendum
Crazed free-marketeers and unashamed racists have brought the UK to the brink of leaving Europe. Despite the EU’s neoliberal character, only a Remain vote will allow us to take responsibility for the future political direction of a continent that we cannot escape.
Between Labour and a Hard Place
The ideological gap between Labour and the Tories is larger today than at any time in the past twenty years. But will the popularity of Labour’s social-democratic program prevail over lukewarm support for its leader—and the rise of the far right?
