Spawned in the wake of World War II, tool libraries lend implements and provide practical guidance to community members who can’t afford to own or store their own tools.

Restorative practices, abortion rights, and a fearless labor movement: We look back at a year of resistance.

Sluggish institutions, corporate mergers, billionaires behaving badly: It’s been a watershed year for the labor beat.

The CIA spent decades promoting apolitical, individualist art. These artists are fighting back.

A look back at our coverage of 2022’s highest-profile union drive.

If a budget reveals what we value, this one should give us pause: extravagant spending for the war machine, scraps for workers.

With no national regulation, employers often provide subpar housing to the migrant farmworkers who sustain the billion-dollar food industry.

Kurt Vonnegut's words live on.

The dominance of predatory financial firms has allowed a class of super-rich investors to exert vast control over our economic and political lives.

A cartoonist illustrates police union leaders’ statements, in their own words.

In September, the U.S. created a foundation that was supposed to unfreeze Afghanistan's foreign assets. Yet, interviews with trustees reveal that, in three months, no funds have been disbursed—or concrete plans made—to help the Afghan people.

AI's menace, institutional failures and a labor movement basking in energy not seen in decades.

The court-ordered termination of Title 42 marks an important step toward restoring access to humanitarian protections at the border. But the Biden administration must do more to fight the program's racist legacy.

La terminación ordenada por la corte del Título 42 marca un paso importante hacia la restauración del acceso a las protecciones humanitarias en la frontera. Pero la administración de Biden debe hacer más para luchar contra el legado racista del programa.

Starbucks workers at around 100 stores have begun a national three-day walk out, the union campaign’s largest action yet.

Then and now, how does the bipartisan embrace of austerity help working people?

Strategic differences come to the fore as the largest higher education strike in the country's history enters its second month

Republicans don’t have a strategy to lower costs for consumers, but they are plotting to slash the safety net.

Labor militants ousted entrenched leadership at the mine workers’ union in 1972. Current organizers can take lessons from both the challenges and successes of the historic campaign.

Inflation myths only benefit the rich.

The cryptocurrency bubble reveals the emperor’s new grift.

Three weeks before the holidays, Twitter laid off its custodial staff. We spoke to them on what they saw at HQ.

Here’s what happens when a school rethinks punishment.

On December 11, 1981, El Salvador’s US-backed soldiers carried out one of the worst massacres in the history of the Americas at El Mozote.

Native and Black communities suffering the most from coastal damage need reparations for past abuse while we fight for systemic change.

To mark the anniversary of the Starbucks union movement, workers are holding rallies in 10 cities—and asking customers to publicly show their support.

The legal hurdles facing Biden’s student loan cancellation plan underscore the need to overhaul our democracy—and make debt relief universal.

“There’s so much politicizing of trans lives and at the heart of it, I just want to wear my dress.”

"Get ready to negotiate with a UAW where the membership is back in charge."

While the Biden administration is seeking to avert a strike by backing a contract over union objections, Bernie Sanders and other progressives made a last-ditch effort to win guaranteed paid sick leave.

More than 15 million people now have access to ranked elections, and that number is only growing

This year’s UN climate conference offered some reason to celebrate. But the growing clout of the “carbon capture” industry is hindering urgent efforts to clamp down on fossil fuels.

Unions representing British postal, rail, education and communication workers are rediscovering the workplace as a battleground.

Unions representing British postal, rail, education and communication workers are rediscovering the workplace as a battleground.

Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) produce dangerous amounts of animal waste, but only one third of them have a federal permit.

After rejecting an agreement brokered by the White House, railroad workers could walk off the job ahead of the busy holiday season.

Reports of widespread labor exploitation and safety hazards cast a dark shadow over the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Lawmakers and bosses are citing a supposed lack of workers as justification for a suite of reactionary policies aimed at further squeezing the working class.

The midterms showed that rural voters must be an integral part of the Democratic strategy if they want to win in 2024.

We spoke to strikers in Boston, New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh about their fight to bring the multi-billion dollar company to the bargaining table.

After the midterm elections, more left-wing insurgents are going to the House, Bernie Sanders has two strong allies in the Senate and progressive ballot measures passed everywhere.

By banding together to demand justice on the job, essential workers paved the way for a resurgence of labor unrest—and showed how to create a crisis for capitalism.

After the midterms, Congress will have more socialists than ever—while progressive policies won across the country. The Left will have to use its power to take on the anti-democratic GOP.

An interview about the midterms with reproductive justice pioneer Loretta Ross.

To reverse their dismal midterm election performance, Florida Democrats need to embrace working people, the environment and Unite Here.

Once a tourist destination, the Salton Sea faces ecological collapse, toxic dust storms—and maybe a lithium boom.

The midterms proved the climate generation is a force to be reckoned with.

The meager returns of Democratic control of the government remind us that true power comes from organizing workers.

What the surprising results mean for the electoral left.

In Tuesday's midterm elections, a majority of Illinois voters backed the Workers Rights Amendment which will enshrine the ability to organize. A coalition of unions, along with socialists, helped propel the campaign.

In 2020, UNITE HERE workers led the charge in canvassing voters and played a key role in Democrats’ electoral victories. This year, they’re taking the lead once again.

Minnesota nurses made national headlines by going on strike this fall, but as contract negotiations stall, they’re fighting for a voice on the job.

Houseless protesters in Chicago occupied a parking lot and then set up a long-term camp to fight gentrification—with the support of the neighborhood.

As social movements move beyond the default anarchist sensibility that prevailed through Occupy, they must still reckon with hard questions about bureaucracy and cooptation.

A ceasefire in Ukraine has been needed since day one—and it’s more urgent now than ever.

The first TDU-endorsed leader in 30 years sought to meet the hopes of the militant rank-and-file, promising a UPS strike if needed.

An anti-abortion constitutional amendment identical to one Kansas voters rejected this summer is on Kentucky’s November ballot.

Work-to-rule is not walking away from a fight, but a different way to fight.

A lot is uncertain about the midterms, but there's one thing we do know—the House will have the largest left cohort in decades.

When have you ever seen a poor vampire?

Starbucks workers at a roastery in New York are on the picket line alleging unsafe working conditions and a refusal by management to bargain in good faith.

Workers at Westrock’s Mahrt Mall paper mill in Cottonton, Alabama, have been locked out since the beginning of October due to an ongoing contract fight.

The Marxist writer and activist Mike Davis (1946-2022) showed us all how to live and fight as an “old-school socialist.”

The Marxist writer and activist Mike Davis (1946-2022) showed us all how to live and fight as an “old-school socialist.”

Casting corporate profiteering as a key driver of inflation would be a political winner for Democrats—and it has the virtue of being true.

A barista in Buffalo says he was fired for wearing a suicide awareness pin. Now, workers in at least seven other states are wearing it in solidarity.

A private-equity startup acquired two rural Missouri hospitals during the pandemic. In March, it suspended all hospital services.

Crime plays on primal emotions. We need deep engagement to transform people's thinking.

“They treat you like you’re nothing. Like cockroaches.”

The three-week, multi-state strikes caused supply chain interruptions but drew widespread community support.

The UFCW may be contemplating supporting Kroger's mega-merger. That should give every union member a sinking feeling.

A sweeping ballot initiative dubbed the “mansion tax” would raise funds to build supportive housing, provide rental assistance and implement other measures to help curb the crisis facing unhoused Los Angeles residents.

“Feminism—despite all our efforts—is still largely a middle-class movement and ideology,” Ehrenreich wrote in 1984—words that are still relevant today.

Delta is the last major airline in the US where flight attendants are not unionized. Its workers want to change that.

As the Fed seeks to cut workers’ wages amid inflation, a new report shows corporate executives have seen a monumental surge in compensation.

The Biden administration has taken the first step to ending harsh and discriminatory laws around marijuana. But it’s a far cry from justice for all those impacted.

Insurance may suck, but it doesn't lie.

Sen. Manchin has justified fossil fuel extraction because it “creates jobs.” He's also pushing a policy that would cut them.

Media portrayals of police as good-hearted heroes warp our collective view of reality. Don't trust them.

El plan sólo afianzará aún más las razones por las que la gente se va.

It’s been 12 years since the oil spill caused by British Petroleum devastated the Gulf. A people’s history of this disaster has yet to be told.

The expanded Child Tax Credit was the most impactful anti-poverty program in a generation. Democrats should campaign on bringing it back.

While polling shows most Americans support banning lawmakers from trading stocks, legislation to do so has been delayed by House leadership.

Since the 1980s, says Professor Marc Edelman, financial capital has developed imaginative new ways to seize assets from small towns and rural areas.

Workers at Howard Brown Health in Chicago are set to walk out next week after months of stalled negotiations.

As part of the nationwide protests in Iran, women union members are taking to the streets, saying: “we have nothing to lose but our lives.”

The tragic suicide of Evan Seyfried has been linked to targeted bullying and harassment by coworkers and management at Kroger—his loved ones are still seeking answers and justice.

Home Depot workers tried to get the company to address low pay, lack of training and understaffing. No one listened, so they're unionizing.

To build power and transform communities, socialists and movement organizers need to engage in the electoral arena.

Under Biden, monitoring of immigrants by cell phone has jumped 808%.

The West Virginia senator is “getting desperate” as objections to his permitting deal grow louder, saying he’s a victim of “revenge politics.”

It is time to forsake the Chicago school of economics.

On the eve of the presidential election in Brazil, which will pit former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, In These Times revisits Lula’s first year in power.

Pandemic safety net programs kept millions out of poverty in 2021. Cutting them will lead to more unnecessary misery.

While Biden has taken steps to provide student debt cancellation, union workers are excluded from a key relief program—while workers at anti-labor groups like the Heritage Foundation are covered.

The inspiring wave of independent labor organizing also represents the failure of existing unions.

A national rail strike could still be on the table if rank-and-file workers reject the tentative agreement announced by the White House this week.

Rapid job growth and increased worker bargaining power are very good—there’s a whole lot more progressive policy that could be done.