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Belabored Podcast #180: General Strike in Puerto Rico Gets the Goods, with Mercedes Martinez
The President of the Puerto Rico Teachers Federation talks about this week’s protests and the ongoing fight against corruption.
Belabored Podcast #179: Samsung’s Labor Abuses
South Korean journalist Lee Jae-yeon discusses her investigation of working conditions in Samsung factories in nine cities in India, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
The First Democratic Debates
Three Dissent editors on the first Democratic Party primary debates of the 2020 campaign.
Belabored Podcast #178: A Nurse’s Prescription for Fixing Healthcare
Unionized nurses are campaigning for sweeping changes to the healthcare system, including Medicare for All and safe staffing levels in hospitals.
Belabored Podcast #177: More Hours for What We Will, with Will Stronge
What if the best thing we could do—for ourselves, the planet, and even our workplaces—was to work less?
The New Housing Politics
Three new articles on the movements and ideas behind the fight for housing justice.
After the EU Elections
What do the recent elections for the European Parliament tell us about political developments across the continent?
Belabored Podcast #176: Talking Union in NYC
Three New York organizers—Bhairavi Desai, Bianca Cunningham, and Valeria Treves—talk about how the labor movement can evolve to become more inclusive, powerful, and responsive to the needs of diverse working-class communities.
Belabored Podcast #175: Shut off the Apps, with International Striking Uber and Lyft Drivers
Drivers and organizers in New York, Los Angeles, and the UK talk about Wednesday’s strike.
[EVENT | May 14] Spring Issue Launch: Labor’s Comeback
Join us in celebrating our spring issue, “Labor’s Comeback.”
Belabored Podcast #174: Stop & Strike
Stop & Shop workers staged the biggest private-sector strike in years. We talk to two of the strikers about what they won.
Belabored Podcast #173: Wages for Warcraft, with Jamie Woodcock
The labor that makes the multi-billion-dollar video-game industry possible, educators fighting back in New York and Chicago, the IRS auditing poor people, and much more.
Belabored Podcast #172: Putting Climate Justice to Work, with Rusty Hicks
Capitol Hill is abuzz with the Green New Deal. But is the rest of the economy, and its workers, ready for the kind of dramatic transformation that the climate change movement is calling for?
The Christchurch Massacre and the White Power Movement
The horrific attack in New Zealand was not the work a lone wolf or a few isolated radicals. It’s the latest in a series of violent events carried out by a transnational movement that wants to foment race war.
