Talarico defeated Republican Ken Paxton in a state Trump won by nearly fourteen points in 2024. He ran on an essentially ...

Working-class organizing and politics. Click to read Labor Politics, by Eric Blanc, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

[An earlier version of this article painted a one-sidedly negative picture of the Working Families Party and a one-sidedly positive picture of NYC-DSA’s advance in working-class communities. Thanks to ...

Donald Trump’s war on Iran is very unpopular. As pollster G. Elliot Morris notes, it is the most unpopular a US war has ever been when it started. And “with just 38% of Americans in favor, support for ...

Renee Nicole Good’s murder by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has left millions of Americans wondering how we can stop ICE from terrorizing our communities any further. There are many well-known ...

An electoral turnaround in the second round of Brazil’s presidential election is possible, however difficult. But the illusion that the left can govern without a long-term project, without confronting ...

Why are most national unions doing relatively little to meet the current opening for new organizing? One overlooked reason is the deepening generation gap within organized labor. Consider this: the ...

Organizing isn’t just a science, it’s also an art. Normally the latter is passed on through phone calls, debriefs, meetings, and late-night shit talk. This is an attempt to share with the next ...

In the aftermath of the “No Kings” demonstrations of March 28 th, there has been renewed interest—and concern—that in many cities the participation of people of color generally, and Black people ...

Can anti-racist activism feed into labor organizing and multiracial working-class organization? Or — as some leftists suggest — is anti-racism necessarily an elitist project of corporate America and ...

There’s no sugarcoating it: Mercedes workers’ loss last week was a punch in the gut. Hopefully we can soon get some sober assessments from worker leaders and staff organizers about what — if anything ...

This wasn’t supposed to happen. When Zohran Mamdani launched his mayoral campaign in late October 2024, the candidate himself was probably the only person in the city who thought he could win. Donald ...