Articles
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The Labor Movement We Need to Win the Future We Want
The choice is ours: organize a unified worker movement with bold leadership, or tell stories about the good old days.
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Unbossed: Black Domestic Worker Organizing is Redefining the Future of Work
If we can win power for Black domestic workers, we can win power for all workers.
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Joseph Gruber We have the power. It’s time to start using it.
This crisis in capitalism is an opportunity to build new infrastructure and platforms and bring new people into the movement.
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Lawrence Glass Company Town 2.0: Fighting Authoritarianism from the Workplace to the White House
For worker justice movements to play their part in the takedown of authoritarian presidents and authoritarian companies like Amazon, we need to look beyond the confines of bargaining units, sectors, or industries to build the biggest possible community of interest.
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COVID-19 and the Fight for an Economy that Works for Everyone
The current economic and public health crises have made at least two things clear: we all depend on each other and having a job does not guarantee economic stability or a dignified place in our society.
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Union Perspectives: The Labor Movement We Need for The Future We Want
This fishbowl panel with organizing directors at some of the country's most ambitious and creative unions explores how they are wrestling with broken labor law, declining unionization rates, and the challenges and opportunities of organizing in this moment.
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Editor’s Note: The Future of the Labor Movement
We hope this issue is a jumping off point for more discussion, collaboration, and debate about the strategic questions labor needs to tackle to build a movement that can win a greener, more caring, and more just future.
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Joshua Cotton The Future of the Labor Movement
We need the labor movement to win the world we want. It’s up to all of us to remake it.
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“Cori is the right candidate for exactly the right time”
The lead organizer on the Cori Bush campaign talks about how the campaign coped with COVID, what they did to challenge voter suppression, and what Bush’s victory means for progressive politics in Missouri and beyond.
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Unions and Race: “I don’t think we have time to be tame anymore.”
Jake Grumbach on the effects of unions on white racial politics
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Image courtesy of Barbara Helmick From Fringe to Winnable: The Campaign for DC Statehood
Long considered a long-shot local issue, DC statehood is now a winnable campaign. Barbara Helmick tells the story of how changing the narrative allowed organizers to build the coalition they need to win.
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Connecting beyond the height of emergency
Community defense is about organizing for long term security not just immediate crisis
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Tackling the Other Public Health Pandemic
COVID-19 and structural racism as intersecting pandemics — which makes the debut of From Enforcers to Guardians: A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence right on time.
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Q&A with Zakiyah Ansari
The longtime education organizer discusses advocacy, hope, and the current movement
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Courtesy of Charles Khan Organizing During the Apocalypse
Through all of the darkness that this year has brought, we are closer than ever to achieving justice.
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“The Center Has Shifted”
We sat down with veteran organizers to talk about their strategies during the uprisings, their ongoing coalition-building work, and how they’re building spaces for Black people to collaborate, heal, and challenge the system.
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Max Bender Editor’s Note: Organizing, Innovation, and Upheaval
Racial justice organizers are innovating organizing tactics and strategies during the pandemic and the uprisings. In this series, we examine some of the innovations in organizing happening this summer.
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Chris Grafton The History of the DC Statehood Movement
A historian of the capital city on the history of voter suppression in DC, the challenges of organizing for statehood, and why winning might be possible now.
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Joshua Earle Organizing in the Belly of the Beast
The District of Columbia has a long and venerable history of local organizing that offers important lessons for how to push for change at the local level, take on powerful interests, and challenge an entrenched political establishment.
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Koshu Kunii Building a Socialist DC
Two Metro DC DSA organizers on the group’s electoral campaigning, the challenges of organizing during COVID, and their vision for a more just DC.