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When Polaroid Workers Fought Apartheid
Fifty years ago, a group of Polaroid employees launched the first anti-apartheid boycott of a U.S. corporation. Their activism mirrors the burgeoning organizing efforts of tech workers today.
Fifty years ago, a group of Polaroid employees launched the first anti-apartheid boycott of a U.S. corporation. Their activism mirrors the burgeoning organizing efforts of tech workers today.
Calls to rent strike have yet to cohere into a national political movement. But as the economic crisis deepens, tenants’ fates will ultimately be decided by their level of collective organization.
Unless we win serious changes now, the worst is yet to come.
The author of The Deficit Myth on why national debt is not an obstacle to progress—and why the government can afford to fund its priorities.
We have many battles, not one, not even one at a time; they are not necessarily connected, and it is important for reasons of tactics and strategy to recognize the differences among them.
The point of theorizing about racial capitalism is to focus our attention on the broader forms of organization that are constitutive of social life under capitalism, beyond how it organizes work and production.
Andrzej Duda’s re-election has been characterized as yet another victory for the global populist right, and a rejection of neoliberalism. But it is important to understand recent developments in the context of Poland’s post-1989 transformation.
No group is better positioned than organized teachers to force Washington to develop a national plan to deal with the pandemic.
Capitalism and racism overlap sometimes, as they do today in the United States. But the overlap is circumstantial, not necessary.
Conservative state governments are rolling back local public health initiatives, intentionally putting their citizens in harm’s way.
Black people suffer disproportionately from police violence. But white skin does not provide immunity.
The COVID-19 crisis has given autocrats an excuse to expand and deepen their power—while making the spread of the pandemic worse.
The occupation sought to challenge the priorities of a city government that would choose to cut funding for guidance counselors, park workers, teachers, and other social services while continuing to spend billions on cops.
The controversy over buildings, statues, and awards honoring racists has finally reached the baseball establishment.
In a moment when Black Lives Matter has succeeded in bringing longstanding police abuses to public attention, Lewis’s legacy has never been more visible.