A Demonstration of Working-Class Power
Labor Day was the first national holiday that a social movement both created and persuaded the state and businesses to honor.

Labor Day was the first national holiday that a social movement both created and persuaded the state and businesses to honor.
“This is about reviving a labor movement that really fights for the working class.”
In the face of a far-reaching austerity package being imposed by an unelected government, more than 1 million Brazilian workers took the streets Friday for the country’s first general strike in decades.
Last week’s general strike in India might have been the largest strike in history.
Dissent has recently acquired a fax machine—not, to be sure, the very latest model, the cast-off of one of our editors who is “upgrading,” but a new machine for us nonetheless. Will this make us more efficient? Maybe so, and …