Why we need a freedom agenda.

Locked-out workers watch their jobs flee across the border as their employer demands major concessions

Building worker power has always been an uphill battle. Revisiting history can guide us forward. An interview with Erik Loomis.

The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) voted overwhelmingly on Monday to authorize a strike for 20,000 nurses in NYC — a move made just two weeks before their contract expires.

December 11 saw a massive general strike in Portugal. This was not just a workplace dispute but a political strike, directed against the government’s planned labor reform. Trade unions widely see this...

JOHANN MOST: LIFE OF A RADICAL(University of Illinois Press, Dec 2025), 296pp.

In his new book, Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History, David McNally intervenes in ongoing debates over the relation between slavery and capital

There’s a common narrative about why Canada Post is in such bad shape—the company’s financial difficulties lie in excessive spending, and that the decline of letter-mail has made Canada Post too costl...

TORONTO - The head of Canada's largest private-sector union says she's glad to be putting this year behind her, but next year will present a whole new set of daunting

For years, critics inside and outside the New Democratic Party have warned that the party is drifting away from its historic base. In election after election, the NDP has struggled to connect with the...

2026 PCB Call for Papers We will be meeting July 29-31 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The 119th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association “We Hold Thes...

ESDC removed data tables reporting ‘work stoppages’ from its website several months ago.

More often than not, governments across Canada sided with corporations instead of workers.

Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world, as historian Sven Beckert does in his massive new book, Capitalism: A Global His...

The Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS) is an academic association for scholars interested in work, workers, and labour.

Duties & ResponsibilitiesProvide broad intellectual insights, top-tier scholarly credentials, and the leadership and managerial capacity to sustain an...

The fact that the meeting was even happening was enough to produce an air of subversive excitement. On August 25, 1925, a century ago this year, black sleeping car porters hoping to form a union at th...

After years of pressure from labour, there will finally be a strict certification program to ensure workers are protected.

August Code works at the first ever Starbucks location to unionize in 2021. But four years after that vote, he and his co-workers in Buffalo, New York, are still waiting on their union contract. “I wo...

For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution

Labor Politics, a Related Group of the American Political Science Association (APSA), invites abstract submissions for the Sixth Annual Comparative Labor Politics Workshop. The workshop will take plac...

Ian Rocksborough-Smith interviewed Naomi R Williams about their recent book, A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin,

One of the earliest foundations of the progressive theatre movement in America was contributed by the Yiddish Theatre, 1887–1913, in the formation of the

This won’t come as a surprise to union activists, but the mainstream press doesn’t always fairly represent the labor movement. That was true in 1919, the year the Federated Press (FP) was founded, and...

These days, and once again, “anarchism” has become an official swear word. For Trump’s Justice (or injustice) Department, every anarchist appears to be a violent member of Antifa, remarkably so becaus...

The uranium industry left a trail of sickness and loss through Navajo territory, yet Trump is pushing for another mining boom.

The new issue of of Labor is now available. The entire Up For Debate forum section of the issue will be available for free until January 26, 2026. The

On October 17, historian Rudi Batzell presented at the Labor 2025 Big Book forum about his new book, Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery: Global

Ministry says ‘stakeholders raised concerns’ about data on its website, gives no timeline for republishing

This is yet another example of government interference eroding free collective bargaining by curtailing the right to strike.

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The Windsor Ford Strike was a 99-day strike from 12 September to 19 December 1945 by 11,000 employees of the Windsor, Ontario, Ford Motor Company plant. Some 8,...

Quebec Labour Minister Jean Boulet tabled a bill that proposes dividing union dues into mandatory and optional ones.

It is with deep sadness that I must convey the news of the passing of Bill Chedore, former 1st National

Zohran Mamdani’s quoting of Eugene Debs in his recent victory speech (for mayor of New York City) should awaken interest in the man who gained a name for himself as “Mr. Socialism.” For seventeen year...

Canadian autoworkers have faced many crises over the years, but the present threat is distinct. Lana Payne, President of Unifor, has warned that “If we don’t push back hard against him [US President D...

They face inferior socioeconomic outcomes, including higher poverty rates and lower wages

Another beacon has been raised in the art world as the workers of the Detroit Institute of Arts have announced their formation of a union: Detroit Institute of Arts Cultural Workers United. The news c...

Once a radical breakthrough, settler colonial theory now dominates Canadian scholarship. In his review of On Settler Colonialism in Canada, Bryan D. Palmer welcomes its moral clarity but warns that it...

There is a military axiom that if your positions are encircled by far superior forces, you will inevitably be annihilated, unless you break out. I have been a member of our labor movement and left win...

Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York’s Democratic Party primary for mayor in June 2025 and victory in the general election on November 4th has provided a dose of hope to a Left seeking a path...

GM announced last month that it was pausing production of an electric cargo van at the GM CAMI Assembly plant.

D’ici la précision des détails, les activités de grève et de lockout sont suspendues.