Tag: Social movements
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Worker and popular education
Avery Wear and James Boyle discuss the massive adult education system organized by the U.S. Left in the early 20th century.
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San Francisco educators endorse BDS
Alex Schmaus and brian bean report on the first public school educators union in the U.S. to endorse boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli apartheid.
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Ecosocialism in Quebec
Haley Pessin interviews Benoit Renaud and Jessica Squires about a new activist organization in Quebec, Révolution écosocialiste.
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History and independent politics in the U.S.
Tim Goulet reviews Kim Moody’s “Tramps and Trade Union Travelers: Internal Migration and Organized Labor in Gilded Age America, 1870-1900.
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‘A jailbreak of the imagination’
Haley Pessin, PB Richter, and Héctor Rivera review Mariame Kaba’s We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
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No war, no KKK
Bill Mullen reviews No Fascist USA!, a new book covering anti-KKK organizing in the 1970s and 80s and argues that it contains important lessons for today.
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“If you repress us, we will rise up even more”
Ashley Smith interviews activist and poet Me Me Khant on the recent coup in Myanmar, which has triggered a mass popular uprising and general strikes throughout the country.
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Organizing Amazon
Joe Allen discusses the significance of the organizing drive at Amazon in Bessemer, Alabama
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Socialists and the BAmazon Union
Nasrin discusses the lack of a coordinated response from the Democratic Socialists of America to what could be the most significant union election in the South in decades.
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Amazon workers and the southern key?
Sumona Gupta provides an important introduction to the background behind the current efforts to unionize Amazon workers in Alabama.