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The Next Amazon Union Drive

Nelson Lichtenstein ▪ April 12, 2021

Lessons from the Bessemer defeat.

Hunger at the End of the Supply Chain

Penelope Kyritsis and Genevieve LeBaron ▪ Spring 2021

The workers who sew clothes for global apparel giants are facing widespread hunger and destitution during the pandemic—even as many of these corporations continue to turn a profit.

Belabored: Black Against Amazon, with Steven Pitts and Robin D.G. Kelley

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ April 9, 2021

Steven Pitts and Robin D.G. Kelley discuss Amazon and the state of the Black working class.

And a Union

Natasha Lewis ▪ Spring 2021

It’s in moments when even the best-case scenario on the table doesn’t get us far enough that socialist ideas are most important.

A Reparative Politics for the Climate Crisis: A Roundtable

Kate Aronoff, Richard Kozul-Wright, Asad Rehman, Thea Riofrancos and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò ▪ Spring 2021

To envision a global Green New Deal requires a serious effort to grasp the deep inequities of the international economic order.

For decades, economists have promoted low-wage textile industry as the best way for poor countries to build a manufacturing base. In East Africa, the promised trickle-down effects of foreign investment have not materialized.

From the Ashes of the Old: A New Deal for Wildland Firefighters

Daniel Boguslaw ▪ Spring 2021

A massive overhaul and expansion of the wildland workforce is the best hope we have to confront the firestorm that threatens to engulf the West Coast.

The Pandemic Risk Shift

Colin Gordon ▪ Spring 2021

In the face of COVID-19, the political response has been at best temporary relief and at worst indifference. What we need going forward is not just better public health measures, but a response to the economic insecurities and policy failures that it laid bare.