A guide to May Day 2025 actions.
Luis Feliz Leon
If we’re going to build enough collective power to win universal healthcare and the right to retire with dignity, then we need to tighten up.
J. Patrick Patterson
Congress Should mark the 50th anniversary by passing new legislation addressing the impact of Agent Orange.
Susan Schnall and Azadeh Shahshahani
The winner of our Labor Organizer of the Year Award co-runs a member-led worker center in Miami for people with criminal records and their families — the first organization of its kind in the country.
Kim Kelly
FeatureLabor Organizer of the Year
The Education of a Teamster Rebel: Antonio Rosario
Luis Feliz Leon
LaborViewpointLabor Organizer of the Year
From Permanent Precarity to Permanent Power
Katherine Passley
Labor Organizer of the Year
The Indispensability of the Labor Organizer
Nelson Lichtenstein
Columnists
InterviewCulture
Kaveh Akbar's Narratives of Love
Aina Marzia
FeatureInterview
Now Is the Time for Big Ideas
Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Chenjerai Kumanyika
Dispatch
Environmentalists and Community Members Band Together Against Buc-ee's
Lewis Raven Wallace
In These Times Honors Academic Workers
For its vitality and its protection of members against repression, the movement to organize higher education received an Honorable Mention in the Labor Organizer of the Year awards.
Fatima Jalloh
In These Times Honors Starbucks Workers
Starbucks workers received an Honorable Mention in the Labor Organizer of the Year awards for a groundbreaking campaign that is training up a generation of worker-organizers.
Fatima Jalloh
Grocery Workers VS Goliath
Kroger and Albertsons tried to merge; union organizing stopped them. But the fight for grocery workers is just beginning.
Sarah Lazare
A year into Israel's war in Gaza, four activists working at the intersection of Black and Palestinian liberation discuss the genocide, the upcoming U.S. election and the power of international solidarity.
Nashwa Bawab
A months-long investigation found even the smallest hints of dissent are often met with unemployment.
Shane Burley
ViewpointPalestine
School Curriculum Supports the Genocide. Here’s How Teachers Can Push Back.
Bill Bigelow
ViewpointPalestine
A Fateful Year: How It Feels to Lose Gaza
Yousef Aljamal
LaborInterview
Why U.S. Labor Has a "Special Responsibility" to Stop Israel's Attacks on Lebanon
Sarah Lazare
Translations
LaborDispatchSpanishEn Español
“No abran la puerta”: Cómo Chicago está frustrando la campaña de miedo de ICE
Sarah Lazare and Rebecca Burns
LaborViewpointEn Español
Presidente de la UAW: El Primero de Mayo De 2028 Podría Transformar el Movimiento Sindical—y el Mundo
Shawn Fain
FeaturePalestine
التحولات التي شهدها مجتمع المسلمين في الولايات المتحدة بعد 20 عامًا من التاسع من أيلول وكيفية تجليها بعد السابع من تشرين الأول
إيمان عبد الهادي
“I showed up for East Palestine because I realized we are not alone.”
Maximillian Alvarez and Molly Crabapple
Around the world, government forces regularly attack environmental activists with impunity—and U.S. support.
Alessandra Bergamin
Political repression is on the rise as the state finds new ways to criminalize dissent and collective action.
Adam Federman
Against Trump, For the Common Good: What Chicago Teachers Won in Their Latest Contract
Kari Lydersen
Labor
National Unions Demand Release of Detained Immigrant Workers
“We have to take actions where we can show that we can win and that help overcome people’s fear.”
Natascha Elena Uhlmann
LaborViewpoint
Unions as a 21st Century Anti-Fascist Force
Trump and his MAGA movement are conspiring with oligarchs to turn the U.S. into a rightwing authoritarian state. The labor movement can play a key role in fighting back.
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Featuring a new foreword by the late Nikki Giovanni and interviews with Marc Lamont Hill and rapper Noname, Prose to the People spotlights the unyielding resilience of Black bookstores.
Katie Mitchell
Culture
The Burning Heart of the World Follows an Armenian Family in Exile
Eleanor J. Bader
Culture
From Ruins to Renaissance: Syrian Artists Reclaim Freedom After Assad
Alessandra Bajec
ClimateRural America
Ahead of Fire and Hurricane Season, FEMA Moves to End a Major Disaster-Preparedness Program
Zoya Teirstein and Jake Bittle
Rural America
How Medicaid Cuts Could Devastate Tribal Health Systems
Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez
Columnists
