The Hotel Trades Council (HTC) has won a remarkable level of economic security for its 40,000 members. Shaun Richman joins New Labor Forum Editor Chris Maisano to talk about how New York's hotel worke

The civil rights movement’s commitment to nonviolence wasn’t just moral but also strategic, based on a calculation of how the movement could best exert power. No practitioner of that nonviolence was m...

How do we know where, when, and for how long strikes and other labor actions happen in the U.S.? Since 2021, the Labor Action Tracker has been the only comprehensive database of strikes and other work

The Democratic Party establishment was not happy about Zohran Mamdani’s election, but most did not treat it as an existential threat. The results of the 2026 primary elections can’t be so easily dismi...

Zohran Mamdani’s victory was rooted in organizations that took up the base-building and mobilization functions that once fell to parties.

Labour lost many seats and councils to Reform in the recent UK local elections, leading many to assume that they lost many voters to Nigel Farage’s far-right party. But a look at the data suggests thi...

The forthcoming UAW election will constitute more than a referendum on the Fain leadership. It will be a token of the hopes and frustrations of US workers.

Report using research from senior Blair and Clinton pollster comes as Labour braces for dismal election results

What can the UAW’s efforts to scale up new organizing efforts teach the rest of the labor movement? Former UAW chief of staff Chris Brooks shares his reflections on organizing in higher education and

Workers have been central actors in the struggle to achieve democracy in Iran in the face of domestic repression and foreign intervention.

The United Auto Workers’ 2023 Stand Up Strike against Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis delivered historic gains for our members. But just as significant is what came next. Before the strike even e...

Finalist for the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award<br /> Longlisted for the 2026 Plutarch Award (Biographers International Organization)<br /><br /> <em>Publishers Weekly</em> • Best Books of 2025 [Nonfi...

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Radical right-wing politics is commonly understood as a cry of the “left behind” - working-class voters who lost out in the transition to a post-industrial, services-based, and globalized economy. Phi

Capitalism is commonly understood as an economic system, but Columbia University legal scholar Katharina Pistor argues that its more properly understood as a kind of legal regime. Pistor joins Chris M

A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policy

Jacobin has been a flagship publication of “millennial socialism,” a phenomenon that began gathering force around 2010 and first fought its way into the political arena through the 2016 Bernie campaig...

The statement was an apparent reference to Van Hollen's trip to El Salvador last week to meet with a constituent who was mistakenly deported to the country.