By: Julia Z & Jake S WORCESTER – Students have returned to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Freshmen are being shuttled through new student orientation, professors are dusting off their syllabi,...

By: Vanessa Bartlett EVERETT – Workers at the Encore Boston Harbor, organized in bargaining units affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 25 and UNITE HERE Local 26, went on s...

Released By: Central Massachusetts & Worcester DSA Program Committee WORCESTER – Massachusetts has some of the most rent-burdened tenants in a country where the crisis is ubiquitous. Every year in Mas...

By: Reid Jackson COPLEY SQUARE – The voices and shouts of labor were audible approaching the square on September 7. Starting in the morning, the Greater Boston Labor Council (GBLC) led workers gatheri...

According to a review of FEC filings conducted by Working Mass, the Committee to Elect Dan Koh has received at least $183,700 from donors who also gave to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee,...

By: Dom S LAWRENCE, LOWELL, LYNN – As the national co-chair of the DSA’s Puerto Rico Working Group, I often hear the question from other organization members: “Why should a socialist here care about t...

By: B. Greer The terms “abundance” and “supply” are unavoidable in the housing affordability debate.  The Healey administration’s plan to address the housing crisis, “Achieve a State of Housing Abunda...

By: Jason M, Jake S WORCESTER – Teachers and staff organized under the Massachusetts Community College Council (MCCC) have been engaged in contract negotiations with the Massachusetts Board of Higher ...

By: Cayla Dodd MARLBOROUGH- A union contract campaign among school bus drivers and monitors has developed into something much larger than a dispute over wages and benefits. What is unfolding reveals i...

By: Matt Wolfinger BOSTON – Last month, the Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a long-sought victory, setting the stage for the mass deportation of roughly 356,000 people out of the United ...

By: Chris Brady BOSTON – Healthcare is in a private-equity induced freefall. But after a historic strike and ongoing negotiations, including a lock-out confrontation with the bosses, nurses at Brigham...

By: Reid J DEDHAM – In September 2025, broke and desperate, I was running food deliveries for the richest neighborhoods in Waltham while trying to get my resumé in the door anywhere and everywhere whe...

By: Chris Brady SOMERVILLE – On May 20, Somerville Mayor Jake Wilson joined the Greater Boston Labor Council (GBLC) for their municipal legislative breakfast at the Somerville Armory. There, he gave a...

By: Nelson Lichtenstein This article was originally published in New Labor Forum. These positions are the authors’ own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. Original Editor’s Not...

The immigrants’ courage is matched only by the severity of their limited options. Ultimately, the pressure for change will have to come from the outside

By: Mary Ann Sheppard GREENFIELD – On April 7, 2026, unionized nurses at Baystate Franklin Medical Center staged an informational picket to advocate for better wages and staffing. The picket, organize...

By: Siobhan McDonough The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. CAMBRIDGE — Last Monday, community members crowded into Cambr...

By: Frederick Reiber CAMBRIDGE — Harvard students are in their reading period in advance of finals as Harvard’s graduate union representing workers in around sixty programs surge to the end of their t...

By: Travis Wayne SOMERVILLE – Somerville and its new mayor face a test from organized labor as the city’s executive sits across from a burgeoning municipal workers’ union: Somerville Workers United (S...

By: Vanessa Bartlett BOSTON – On Sunday, February 22, postal workers gathered for a rally in front of South Station. Agitated by growing managerial bloat and stagnant starting wages, postal workers af...

By: Jake S WORCESTER COUNTY – On Thursday, March 26, UMass workers organized within the Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA) — the largest union of registered nurses in the Commonwealth with over 26...

The Palestine Papers aim to spotlight Massachusetts organizations to increase local engagement, accessibility, and solidarity in the fight for Palestinian liberation. This newsletter is produced yearl...

By: Mitch Gayns This was originally published as video footage for Working Mass digital on Instagram. Reporting was supplemented for print. LYNN – On March 21, hundreds took to the streets to defend t...

By: Chris Brady MEDFORD, MA – The story of Sean O’Brien’s turn is not news any longer. Teamsters’ International President and Medford native Sean O’Brien took the stage at the 2024 Republican National...

By: Jason M MARLBOROUGH, MA – On Sunday morning, February 15th, Stop & Shop workers organized under United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1445—which represents nearly 8,000 Stop & Shop workers...

The Energy Department on Tuesday issued notices purporting to terminate its collective bargaining agreements with two unions, while NASA in recent weeks has begun stripping employees of their eligibil...

By: Chris Townsend This article was originally published in Marxism-Leninism Today on February 21, 2026. These positions are the authors’ own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass...

By: Frederick Reiber BOSTON, MA – Dining hall workers at Emmanuel College voted to unionize with UNITE HERE Local 26 and signed their first collectively-bargained contract in November 2025, joining a ...

By: Shane Levett & Stefan Neumayer This article was originally published by Cosmonaut Magazine in Janaury 2026. These positions are the authors’ own and do not represent the official position of Worki...

By: Maritza S CAMBRIDGE, MA – In early February 2026, Lamplighter workers filed for union recognition for their bargaining unit of 30-40 workers encompassing the front of house, production, sales, kit...

By: Kelly Regan BOSTON, MA – “Uprooting members of a community degrades the public sphere,” observed Ben Greer, a Boston DSA member in multi-family residential architecture who works on affordable hou...

By: Steve Early This was originally published by California DSA on January 26, 2026. DSA’s “rank-and-file strategy” has 60s roots at UC Berkeley  “The lessons of the International Socialists can help ...

By: Travis Wayne Loubna Mrie was marching up the hill in a sweeping blizzard in Vermont the first time I met her. Mrie’s first words: “I have bagels.” She handed us a large box of bagels she carried a...

By: Kurt Stand This was originally published by Portside on December 18, 2025. “Here’s what’s wrong in this yard. Two white welders get fired and blackmailed into silence for their jobs. A third one, ...

By: Stanley Fogg This report is based on the transcript of Notes from Inside the Siege: A Report from Frontline Resisters in the Twin Cities. It has been rewritten and condensed for clarity, while rem...

By: Travis Wayne DORCHESTER, MA – The brisk wind warned of an oncoming Arctic storm that afternoon of Friday, January 23, 2026. Rank after rank of one thousand banner-waving union and community member...

On January 23rd there will be a unified, statewide pause in economic activity. We’ll will spend time with family, neighbors, and our communities to show Minnesota’s moral heart and collective economic...

By: James P. Cannon This was originally published in May 1934, when the Teamsters organized the last general strike in Minneapolis. Today the whole country looks to Minneapolis. Great things are happe...

Issue 7, the first of which we are publishing with a preview in this format, is the Ballot and the Rebellion. To receive a bimonthly full copy of the magazine issue delivered to your door knowing your...

By: Jake S WORCESTER, MA – On Monday, January 10, North Atlantic States Carpenters Union Local 336 members gathered against a 10-year real estate tax exemption and state tax credit eligibility propose...

By: Emma Buckley & Henry de Groot This article was originally published by Reform and Revolution in November 2025. What role did the Bolsheviks play in the trade unions? Two classic theoretical works ...

By: Ben A BOSTON, MA – In the wake of the Trump regime’s criminal attack on the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuela’s sovereignty, as well as the ICE killings of Renee Good and Keith Porter, over a th...

By: Haywood Cabral The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. As Donald Trump’s second presidency is nearing the 1-year mark, ...

By: Liam Noble BOSTON COMMON, MA – 2026 is off to an ignominious start. In the morning of January 3rd, Boston woke up to bizarre and disturbing news: the U.S. government had abducted the Venezuelan le...

Statement of the UE Officers – December 18, 2025 PITTSBURGH, PA – Our government’s escalating attacks on Venezuela are unconstitutional, immoral, and a massive waste of resources. The idea that Venezu...

By: Carlos B The modern figure of the chef did not begin in a luxury dining room. It began in the barracks, in hunger, in political upheaval. Marie-Antoine Carême—the man later called the “King of Che...