As I walked around Kyiv on a beautiful, sunny morning in early September, I noticed the scaffolding in the city’s squares. Statues had been covered up to protect them from bomb damage. Later, I saw a statue with no protection around it– a graffiti-covered memorial to a Red Army general whose name nobody remembered. I was…
Las Vegas has long had an image as a place where anything goes, but as the site of the nation’s deadliest mass shooting on October 1, 2017, it became a flashpoint for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Foundation’s rapid budget growth. Development of a “reality-based” training center was already in the works before that…
Real full employment means many more jobs, and many more good jobs. The National Jobs for All Network’s Full Count shows that the real unemployment rate in August was 8.7%, not 3.8%. There are 15 million people who are unemployed or underemployed at part-time jobs because they cannot get full-time work. Whether or not the official unemployment rate goes up or down a little may suggest job market trends, but it does not tell us how far away we are from real full employment.
Immediately After the 1973 Chilean Coup, US Socialists Supported Those Fighting For Freedom
George Floyd may have been murdered in Minneapolis, but he came from Houston, Texas, and his hometown has returned to the streets as Houstonians agitate for justice after another racist police murder. On July 26, 2023, the family of 29-year-old Jalen Randle, joined by Black Lives Matter HTX, Black Lives Matter Grassroots FL, Restaurant Workers…
Into the Bright Sunshine, by Samuel Freedman (Oxford University Press) is subtitled » Young Hubert Humphrey and the Struggle for Civil Rights.» You might think the book was something for a history class, a chronicle of events long ago; even for that, you might turn away, if like many DL readers you mostly think of…
Strike Ready DSA: An Instrument of Solidarity By Sean Orr On August 22, Teamsters ratified their tentative agreement with UPS overwhelmingly– 86.3% yes with over 58% turnout. As their contract struggle recedes (but does not disappear), it is an ideal time to reflect on DSA’s solidarity campaign with these workers and what it has meant…
Through the tragic story of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the inspiring images of those who keep their memories alive, audiences will experience a universal – and very timely – tale of official injustice and human resilience.
Does the United States have a general labor shortage? Clearly there are problems in specific locations and occupations. There are shortages at 911 call-centers across the country. The U.S. Postal Service is short of staff. In Los Angeles County where I live, the government legal infrastructure is a mess; there is a shortage of public…
A wave of rank-and-file reforms is sweeping through the United States; from the United Auto Workers (UAW) to the Teamsters (IBT) to National Nurses United (NNU), the rank-and-file are taking back their unions. But, with union density at only 10.3% nationally, many workers have had no union experience. Union bureaucracy and the internal politics can…
