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The Fight for $15 Can Still Win

Jesse Kudler ▪ January 19, 2017

Even with an openly anti-labor administration and Congress settling in on Capitol Hill, the fight for a living wage has the wind at its back.

[EVENT | January 25] Trumpism: How Should the Left Respond?

Editors ▪ January 18, 2017

Join Bhaskar Sunkara, Nancy Fraser, Paul Berman, Robert Master, Deva Woodly, and Michael Kazin for a debate on how the left can fight—and defeat—Trumpism.

Undergraduate Unions: The Next Frontier?

Evan Burger ▪ January 18, 2017

It’s not just graduate workers who are pushing the envelope of campus organizing. Undergraduates like the dining hall workers at Iowa’s Grinnell College are finding creative new ways to win better wages and working conditions, too.

Belabored Podcast #119: The No-Rights-At-Work Attack, with Bill Londrigan

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ January 13, 2017

Bill Londrigan of the Kentucky AFL-CIO joins us to talk about the right-to-work bill that just passed in his state, and the fight to maintain union power under a hostile regime.

A Tumultuous Year in Dissent

Michael Kazin ▪ December 30, 2016

It’s been a rocky year, but not without its highlights for the democratic left. Our best of 2016.

[LONDON EVENT | January 4] Donald Trump, Brexit, and the Transatlantic Left

Editors ▪ December 28, 2016

Londoners: Join Dawn Foster, Peter Mandler, Pragna Patel, and Natasha Lewis to discuss the political shocks of the past year, and how the left should respond in 2017.

Hanukkah and the Apocalypse

Dan Sinykin ▪ December 23, 2016

A 2,200-year-old cold take on Donald Trump’s election.

Belabored Podcast #118: Fighting for Sanctuary and Solidarity

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ December 16, 2016

Rosanna Aran and Christina Fox of #SomosVisibles join us to talk about immigrant organizing in New York under Trump.

The Triumph of the 1%

Colin Gordon ▪ December 14, 2016

A new study by Thomas Piketty and his colleagues shows that American inequality continues to rise, with no sign of abating.

Belabored Podcast #117: Welcome to the Resistance, with Barbara Madeloni

Sarah Jaffe and Michelle Chen ▪ December 2, 2016

Massachusetts Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni joins us to talk about an election victory for public education, and how labor should respond to Donald Trump.

We’ve Been Fighting Authoritarianism Since 1954. Are You With Us?

Editors ▪ December 2, 2016

Dissent was founded in a moment that must have felt as bleak as today, with two principal aims: to “defend democratic, humanist and radical values” and to attack all forms of authoritarianism. For 63 years, we’ve done just that, and we’re not going to stop now.