Tag: Labor
The Abolitionist Labor Politics of California’s Incarcerated Firefighters
Reflecting on the use of incarcerated firefighters today, Abby Cunniff takes a historical look on the radical politics of their counterparts in the 1970s.
Lessons from the Air Canada Strike
John Clarke argues for a rank-and-file movement to break combat back-to-work legislation.
Last Fair Deal in the Country
Jordy Cummings draws lessons from this year’s CUPE 3903 strike at York University in Toronto.
Canary in the Coal Mine
Cody Melcher reviews John Bardes’s The Carceral City and Lydia Pelot-Hobbs’s Prison Capital.
Higher-Education Bargaining with the “New” UAW
Aaron Berman reflects on using accreditation as leverage and the impact of the new UAW leadership on the Academic Student Workers’ strike at the New School.
Lessons from the Rutgers Strike
Six months later, Rhiannon Maton draws lessons from the Rutgers strike.
Labor’s Upsurge and the Search for Workers’ Power
Kim Moody writes about how we should understand the UAW strike against the backdrop of a larger wave.
Germany 1923
Part two of Sean Larson’s reconstruction of the failed German Revolution of 1923 and the episode’s lessons for revolutionaries today.
Germany 1923
Part one of Sean Larson’s reconstruction of the failed German Revolution of 1923 and the episode’s lessons for revolutionaries today.
Popular Protest and Labor Insurgency in Iran
Shirin Kamangar analyzes the strengths and the weaknesses of Iran’s movement cycle.