Why I Keep Coming Back to Reconstruction

Jamelle Bouie New York Times
Du Bois’s mode of analysis in "Black Reconstruction" can help us look past so much of the ephemera of our politics to focus on the roles of power, privilege and, most important, capital in shaping our political order and structuring our conflicts.

Ahead of Halloween, Sysco Teamsters Give Corporate Ghouls the Heebie-Jeebies

Luis Feliz Leon Labor Notes
black and white drawing of picketers
Teamsters won their strike at America's largest wholesale food distributor with an old-fashioned militant tactic: the mass picket line. “It was old school—unions shutting the thing down,” said a UPS driver. “It’s a magical feeling, the solidarity and the power that comes with it; the connection that’s made by standing together shoulder to shoulder, holding the line."

The War With Ukraine Is Coming Home to Russians

President Putin has announced a 'partial' mobilisation of citizens with military experience. This is what the reality of students, pensioners and people with no army training being called up looks like.

Friday Nite Videos | October 28, 2022

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