American exceptionalism has always had an absurd and self-serving character to it. But any pretense justifying it has collapsed in the face of Donald Trump’s cruelty and oligarchic corruption.

What Bundist influence on American labor history can teach a new generation of Jewish workers

When Shawn Fain was elected UAW president in 2023, hopes were high that he could reshape America’s most important industrial union. His successes have been undeniable, but they haven’t come without in...

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How can unions adapt to a new landscape of work?

Abstract. This essay explores the historiographic ideas and political experiences that influenced the work of Mike Davis, the prolific Marxist historian who died in 2022. His first two books, Prisoner...

Why the work of the 2025 Labor Organizers of the Year is so critical.

By Nelson Lichtenstein, co-author of Labor’s Partisans: Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today Labor’s Partisans is a retrospective on the evolution of the labor movement, as...

Don’t mourn the professional-managerial class — organize it.

The super rich are in command, as Donald Trump and Elon Musk run a rampage on the working class. To stop them, the labor movement needs to lead.

Throughout the entire history of left-wing and working-class organizing in the United States, the participation in and building of institutions of political education has been key.

On Ganz’s “When the Clock Broke” and Lichtenstein and Stein’s “A Fabulous Failure”

Democrats may be in the minority, but they are not yet an opposition. What’s the difference?

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Seventy years of reporting capture the ebb and flow of American labor power in this robust collection of articles from Dissent, ...

Midway through his eighth year in office, President Bill Clinton kicked off a White House conference on the "new economy." The internet age was underway, unemployment was low, inflation was dormant, t...

On Ganz’s “When the Clock Broke” and Lichtenstein and Stein’s “A Fabulous Failure”

Seventy years of reporting capture the ebb and flow of American labor power in this robust collection of articles from Dissent, ...

Records show one of the union avoidance firms Amazon has hired in recent months is the Florida-based firm RoadWarrior Productions.

How corporate conservatism trumps MAGA gestures on behalf of the working class