Subjects Archives: Labor

Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

In a recent essay, we advanced a proposal for sub-federal governments to sell municipal bonds to their own public banks. We took the city as our primary point of departure, but the same lessons are applicable to U.S. counties and states. Establishing a public bank that regularly purchases municipal debt, we argued, would not only significantly […]

“We asked ourselves: if coffee shapes our culture as growers, if it organizes our daily life, and if we already cooperate in so many ways, why shouldn’t we also come together economically?”

Much of organized labor in the United States seems to go merrily on its way as we enter the second year of Trump’s second term. Many unions are dutifully hiding in the weeds and still hoping to go unnoticed.

Any productivity gains from AI will come from job losses and any new value will swing to the owners of AI capital, not workers.

In the mountainous coffee-growing region of Morán municipality, in Lara state, generations of campesino families have built their lives growing coffee. Steep slopes, misty mornings, and hard physical labor are part of daily life in this territory, where coffee is not only a crop but a way of organizing time, work, and community. In recent […]

In this episode, we speak with Tyler Creighton about the ongoing struggle to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from defunding and closure at the hands of Russell Vought in the second Trump Administration. Creighton is a lawyer at the CFPB and a member of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), Chapter 335.

Amid all the bombast and threats over Greenland in his Davos speech, U.S. President Trump made a series of boasts about the success of the U.S. economy, which was, of course, down to him.

For those who lived through Richard Nixon’s lurch toward authoritarian rule, the period after his reelection in a landslide in November 1972 was frightening. (And it was a real landslide, with 60 percent of the vote.)

Peter Mertens, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Belgium, tells Peoples Dispatch that 2026 brings opportunities for class struggle – if the left is ready to act boldly.

The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensions are building behind the scenes over the party’s economic programme. On December 12, 2025, just over 3 months since Zack Polanski’s election as party leader – the […]

Some of David Graeber’s basic assumptions about money and public provisioning limit what the left can imagine and accomplish.

By now, you may have seen the story making the rounds. It’s about a University of Oklahoma student named Samantha Fulnecky who received a zero on a psychology essay, filed a discrimination complaint, and got her trans graduate instructor placed on administrative leave.

The monthly report by human resources firm ADP (Automatic Data Processing) found that U.S. private employers cut 32,000 jobs in the month of November, the latest sign of an accelerating jobs massacre.

ACoM recently reported on an immigration raid in Santa Maria, California, involving a U.S. citizen believed to be at the center of a visa fraud ring.

How a young Black organizer challenged Amazon’s power and redefined what worker-led activism looks like in America.

US president Donald Trump rumbles fatuously on as his phony “peace” plan for Gaza unravels, the US/NATO war against Russia sinks ever deeper in the mud of Ukraine, and his bunker-buster blow failed to put a dent in Iran’s nuclear program. In the United States he has sent federal agents in military gear to grab […]

Media reports, as well as a veritable cottage industry of ethnographic explorations documenting right-wing views among workers, have consolidated an image of a class hopelessly lost to resentment and reaction.

Canada’s long codependent economic relationship with the United States has abruptly and involuntarily ended.

The effects of climate change are disproportionately felt by the working class, with billions of workers forced to toil in conditions of excessive heat.