Police Unions: A Fraudulent Solidarity
Are police unions like other unions? Do they have a shared interest with other workers? Or are they an enemy of the working class?
Ian Cooper-Smith
March 6, 2023
Blog
Working Class Hero of the Week: Lucy Parsons
A look back on the life of Lucy Parsons, whose life was committed to advancing the struggle of the working class
Ian Cooper-Smith
February 6, 2023
How the Ruling Class Utilized ‘Whiteness’ to Divide the Working Class.
The year is 1741. New York City’s white aristocratic population is gripped with terror as a series of fires spread across lower Manhattan. Rumors of
Ian Cooper-Smith
January 9, 2023
Working-Class Hero of the Week: Angelo Herndon
During the height of the Great Depression, leftist organizer, Angelo Herndon united Black and white Workers in the Jim Crow South.
Ian Cooper-Smith
December 19, 2022
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
A major railroad strike in 1877, “the Great Upheaval,” kicked off one of the first nationwide worker uprisings in this country.
Ian Cooper-Smith
December 5, 2022
Workers are angry and quitting their Jobs. Should they consider striking for Union Recognition?
With millions of workers quitting bad jobs, and bosses scrambling to find employees, it may be time for workers to organize and strike for union recognition.
EWOC
October 18, 2021
‘We Took Care of Each Other’: A Maritime Union’s Hidden History of Gay-Straight and Interracial Solidarity
Decades before the modern LGBTQ+ movement, West Coast maritime workers organized against gay-bashing and red-baiting.
Jonathan Kissam
June 25, 2021
What Is Taft-Hartley and Why Is It Bad?
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 dismantled the labor gains of the New Deal era and tipped the scales of bargaining power in favor of employers.
Mack Harden
April 5, 2021
The History Behind the NLRA, America’s First Modern Labor Law
The NLRA sets general rules on U.S. workers’ right to collective bargaining, protection from employment retaliation, and the right to strike.
Samuel Fleischman
March 26, 2021
What Is Right-to-Work and Why Is It Bad?
Right-to-work laws originate in racist fearmongering and serve to gut working-class power. They play a significant role in pushing inequality.
Mack Harden
March 8, 2021
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