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The death of actor Maggie Smith at age eighty-nine has led to an outpouring of appreciation for her great career. Though hers was primarily a theatrical life centered in London, she also made a notable...

In the late 1990s, as AFL-CIO president John Sweeney led the federation’s ultimately failed program to boost union organizing, the phrase “organize or die” was standard rhetoric in labor leader speeches and commentary. Unions did...

It was always going to end up like this. That Eric Adams would face an indictment for abusing public office for private gain was a foregone conclusion for anyone paying attention to how Hizzoner operates....

On Thursday, federal prosecutors unsealed a fifty-seven-page indictment alleging that the mayor of New York City took bribes, destroyed evidence, defrauded taxpayers, and pressured the Fire Department of New York on behalf of a foreign...

Flight attendants at American Airlines were celebrating September 12 after approving a new five-year agreement by 87 percent, with 95 percent turnout. They won a big retroactive pay package and an immediate wage increase of...

The death of Fredric Jameson on September 22, 2024, was a shocking blow to those who knew him personally — students, colleagues, friends, comrades — and the many more who read his vast variegated body...

The good scores for the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) in the recent German regional elections have attracted left-wing attention internationally. Headed by the former Die Linke spokeswoman of the same name, the BSW took over...

Under the guise of combating “woke” investing, corporate-backed House Republicans last week passed legislation that would establish a taxpayer-funded advisory board within the country’s top Wall Street regulatory agency whose sole purpose is to lobby...

On September 12, 2022, Gayane, a forty-two-year-old mother of four, made a brief phone call to her eight-year-old son, Hayk (real name withheld), to check in and let him know she would be unreachable for...

This is an extract from The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross, now available from Verso Books. When Karl Marx, from his vantage point in London, read reports of what was...

This is an extract from Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade by Jeff Schuhrke, now available from Verso Books. Working in close coordination, the State Department and the AFL-CIO’s American...

Following the war in Gaza, you often feel like you’re going crazy, and not just because of the daily atrocities carried out by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). No, it’s that it feels like you’re...