A Ukrainian academic from Donetsk told me last year that the region of eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down is sometimes called the “house of burning stones.” The coal-rich region is home to shallow methane repositories …
Kurdish activist Dilar Dirik in conversation with Meredith Tax, Thursday, October 22, 2015, 7 p.m. at the New School.
Recent contract negotiations at Fiat Chrysler are signaling an end to the infamous two-tier wage system. We speak with Chrysler worker Alex Wassell and Professor of Industrial Relations at Clark University Gary Chaison about the new deal.
Thinking of the United States as a nation of immigrants may promote inclusivity in a time of rising xenophobia, but it also serves to exclude and obscure what the U.S. really is: a nation of migrants.
Jedediah Purdy explains why there is no more “nature” independent of human activity—and what that means for our politics.
Among her many achievements, Grace Lee Boggs should be remembered for her deep involvement in Detroit’s black freedom movement and role in articulating a new brand of class politics rooted in the experience of black workers.
Megan Erickson joins us to discuss her new book, Class War: The Privatization of Childhood, and how education can’t solve inequality, but can become less unequal.
Last week, while some commentators mused on the possibility of Pope Francis and Xi Jinping bumping into each other during their dueling high-profile U.S. tours, I pondered instead what two much younger men would say if they ran into each …
Does our basic humanity suffer as we pursue our “dream jobs”? We speak with Miya Tokumitsu, who examines the dangers of the “do what you love” ethic in her new book. Plus: the Seattle teachers’ strike, LA sweatshop struggles, adjunct agony, and the latest in the campaign for workers’ rights at Walmart.
An interview with Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen.
Fifty years after the founding of the United Farm Workers, farmworker activism has been reborn in a new form.
Activist Bálint Misetics, who has witnessed the situation in Budapest in the past days, speaks with Political Critique editor Veronika Pehe about Hungary’s response to the refugee crisis.
The EU as a whole is once again, as Europe was in the 1930s, a world of borders and refusals.
The National Labor Relations Board made news last week when it ruled to revise its definition of a joint employer to include many business owners who get their workers through a temp agency or subcontractor. We discussed what this means for workers with Larry Engelstein of SEIU 32BJ.
At the end of the Yonkers fair housing battle depicted in the new David Simon mini-series Show Me a Hero, 200 poor black and Latino families were housed on the affluent side of the city. But a quarter-century later, a long-standing pattern of residential segregation and concentrated poverty persists nationwide.
