Flashpoints and Righteous Struggle: A Call for Submissions
Trumpโs One Big Beautiful Act, which ironically was passedย on July 4th, will provide billionsย of dollars in funding to ramp up the federal governmentโs wide-ranging military-style campaign against unarmed civilians across the country. Prior to the billโs passage, masked and armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were already raiding workplaces, ambushing individuals going …
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What Gets Passed Down
This piece tells a story of rural Southern Missouri through the forms of knowledge inherited when the state offers nothing: no direction, no infrastructure, no recognition. The author is from Douglas County, where his family still hunts and welds and buries its dead. Electricity came late. Broadband still hasnโt come at all. Seth comes from the Western Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri, a tribe erased not just by settler removal but by federal recognition itself.
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Since When Has Working Been a Crime?
This article by Dave Ranney was originally publishedย in Hard Crackers on February 4th. It is even more timely now. In the months since, Trump’s immigration police forces have stepped up their targeting of undocumented workers in workplaces. It is essential that we focus our efforts on building a broad working-class resistance to all attacks on workers, includingย those that are undocumented
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An Ordinary White: My Anti-Racist Education
Interview with esteemed labor historian David Roediger about his memoir, An Ordinary White: My Anti-Racist Education.
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The Return of the Magonista?–Los Angeles and Borderland Revolt
This article was written in the days immediately following June 6th. The author was not able to participate in the street movement due to geographical distance from Los Angeles. ConquestIn August of 1846, US troops under Stephen Kearney occupied Santa Fe without firing a shot. In January of 1847, a combined force of Hispano and …
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Dancing for FDR: How My Father Met My Mother (and Vice Versa)
A key drama at the heart of all our personal origin stories is the saga of how our parents met. Iโve known the basics of this piece of my family history as long as I can remember. My mom and dad met, so the story went, when they were paired as dance partners performing in …
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From the Archives
โI donโt think Tysonโs gives two shits about their workers.โ
It was the workers and their kids who shut down Tysonโs Waterloo, Iowa meatpacking plant on April 22, 2020. Not the governor of Iowa, Kim Reynolds, who seemed to show more concern for the hogs who werenโt being slaughtered than for the thousands of workers who were being daily exposed to COVID-19 by showing up …
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Advertising in the Virus Age
To borrow a phrase from the Madison Avenue ad people โIn these difficult times, itโs reassuring to know that we still have enough of what we need.โย Well, letโs be more truthful here.ย We may have limited access to some of what we need.ย We may not have enough masks, or tests or essential drugs.ย …
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