The Strike That Didn’t Change New York
How do we move from homegrown resistance to a national movement?
How do we move from homegrown resistance to a national movement?
Behind American auto’s latest PR campaign lies a bleak economic reality.
It’s an old adage of city life: commute home to masturbate, but don’t masturbate during the commute.
The Oslo Accords weren’t a failure for Israel — they served as a fig leaf to consolidate and deepen its control over Palestinian life.
It’s an old adage of city life: commute home to masturbate, but don’t masturbate during the commute.
How do we move from homegrown resistance to a national movement?
Behind American auto’s latest PR campaign lies a bleak economic reality.
Automation isn’t freeing us from work — it’s keeping us under capitalist control.
In a leftward-moving region, the iron fist of Honduras’ Porfirio ‘Pepe’ Lobo makes him Obama’s sort of ‘democrat.’
In a society ravaged by crime, radical ‘law-and-order’ forces end up being at the root of the problem.
While some level of personal sacrifice on the part of union organizers is inevitable, that can’t justify rendering them powerless over their own workplace conditions.
In resisting standardized testing, today’s teachers are part of a rich tradition of struggle against dehumanization in the workplace.
What would a national core curriculum to prepare students for work in the Age of Service look like?
What does it mean to strike when “production” isn’t the production of widgets, but care for children, the ill, disabled, or elderly?
What use is playing the long game when the arc of the universe feels so frighteningly short?
Without radical change, disquiet finds other outlets. Dystopic visions have replaced Shulamith Firestone and Adrienne Rich’s utopian ones.
Postcolonial theory discounts the enduring value of Enlightenment universalism at its own peril.
The Oscar ceremony has finally acquired an ideal twenty-first century host in the smirking, tap-dancing, bland-faced Seth MacFarlane.
The reaction to a new film about sex workers tells us more about liberal reviewers than the workers themselves.
Zero Dark Thirty is a film that didn’t need to be made — it strives for realism, but ends up rehashing Bush-era tropes about the ‘war on terror.’
Was the mid-century dominance of southern Democrats essential to the defeat of Hitler and the triumph of American democracy?
The Left has a checkered history when it comes to Palestine.
By organizing based on international law, the struggle for Palestinian liberation has been transformed into a question of rights.
The Oslo Accords weren’t a failure for Israel — they served as a fig leaf to consolidate and deepen its control over Palestinian life.
Two-state proponents argue that comprehensive peace is only possible with deeper US involvement in the process. They couldn’t be more wrong.
Thatcher’s great achievements were also what made her so vile. Her talents were harnessed to horrible ends.