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Perhaps the biggest obstacle to organizing, for workers everywhere, is the fear of retaliation. This is an even greater factor when the workers are undocumented immigrants. Not only do you fear being suspended or fired,...

This article is a lightly edited translation of a chapter from Extrême droite: la résistible ascension (Éditions Amsterdam, 2024), edited by Ugo Palheta for the Institut La Boétie book series). In both the public arena...

According to John Newsinger’s A People’s History of the British Empire, it was the outsourcing of genocide that gave Britain the edge over its European imperial rivals. By ensuring an arm’s length distance from the mass...

The first attempt to unionize a privately owned architecture firm since the 1970s started at SHoP Architects in New York City, where I was working at the time. This was part of a wave of...

This is an extract from Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World by Dan Hancox, now available from Verso Books. It is an experience as exhilarating as it is rare, but sometimes you can actually...

This is an extract from Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market by Adam Hanieh, now available from Verso Books. A few weeks into 2023, the world’s largest oil and...

Lucie Castets It’s disastrous, quite simply — and it’s linked to one of the cultural battles that we need to win. That the government is proposing such drastic budget cuts is directly linked to the...

Eight hundred workers near Toronto have won the first Walmart warehouse union in Canada or the United States. “Honestly I was pretty nervous at first because I didn’t want to lose my job,” said twenty-nine-year...

Typically, a friend or relative — sometimes it was just a mere acquaintance — invited a potential “recruit” to a private meeting of an unnamed organization. Its purpose, the friend said, was “protection”; it could...

There’s no other way to say this: worrying about how much it costs to prevent catastrophic climate change is patently  absurd. It is absurd in a political system where money is simply conjured out of...

On Monday, Kamala Harris and the Democratic National Committee started running a new attack ad in Pennsylvania. That’s not noteworthy in itself. Early voting has already started, and the Keystone State has emerged as the...

The shadowy for-profit bail industry is behind a first-of-its-kind federal effort to criminalize charitable efforts designed to help people who can’t afford to post bail. The legislation, which civil rights groups warn is part of...