Urgent Times Call for Something Old And Something New from the Labor Movement
Peter Olney and Rand Wilson
Labor Notes (October 16, 2025)
For workers to survive Trump’s MAGA moment and build a fighting labor movement for the future, both electoral politics (something old) and militant actions to disrupt business as usual (something new for many unions) will be key.
Published On: 11/06/2025
Manufacturing Dissent: How America’s Most Popular “Opposition” Media Protects Oligarch Power
Christopher Armitage
The Existentialist Republic
Power no longer exclusively manufactures agreement. American oligarchs and their media companies have now learned to manufacture the allowable form of disagreement itself.
Published On: 10/28/2025
Fifteen years after Citizens United, the Montana Plan poses the latest challenge to dark money
Natalie Jonas
Open Secrets
The proposed amendment to the state Constitution redefines what is considered legitimate business activity and acceptable corporate donations by limiting corporate charters.
Published On: 10/25/2025
America is Overdue for a General Strike
A.J. Schumann
Counterpunch
Across continents, workers are organizing to do what ballots alone have not: enforce the public will. It’s time American workers join our peers abroad by reclaiming strikes as part of our own democratic tradition.
Published On: 10/22/2025
Galvanizing power through joyful, local action
Sarah Van Gelder
How We Rise, With Sarah
Building power locally is a really key part of it. If you want to be a dictatorship, but you have lots of power centers all over the country choosing their own path, that’s much harder to do.
Published On: 10/21/2025
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