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About Jonah Furman

Jonah Furman is a labor activist in New York City.
  • Auto worker activists for direct democracy leafleted at plants across the country to promote a yes vote on the referendum.

    Auto Workers win direct Democracy in referendum

    Originally published: Labor Notes on December 1, 2021 (more by Labor Notes)  |

    It’s a historic win for reformers in one of the nation’s most important unions, where members have pushed for this change for decades.

  • Members of UAW Local 74 at John Deere's Ottumwa Works are among 10,000 workers on strike at the farm equipment maker.

    ‘Let’s put a wrench in things now’

    Originally published: Labor Notes on October 20, 2021 (more by Labor Notes)  |

    Ten thousand John Deere workers in Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas launched an open-ended strike October 14.

  • Teachers strikes

    Teachers strikes fever spreads

    Originally published: Labor Notes on March 23, 2018 (more by Labor Notes)  |

    It started with a few hundred West Virginia teachers and school employees pulling one-day walkouts. It became an unqualified victory in that state, which educators elsewhere were quick to emulate.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Struggle between the Future and the Past: Where Is Cuba Going?
    Editor Cuban Flag, Museum of the Revolution, Havana, Cuba, 2012

    I have 2 favourite sayings. One draws upon the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack Cade envisions that the effect of his plot will be that “all the realm shall be in common.” To this, comrade Dick responds, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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