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The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) Local 59 march while on strike in 2022.

"An Optimistic Book for Horrifying Times": An Interview with Labor Writer and Historian Dave Kamper

By Isabela Escalona | October 6, 2025

An interview with Dave Kamper on his book, ‘Who’s Got The Power?’, and balancing optimism and critique in the labor movement.

A banner with fist made up of soil layers and the words "The Land Knows the Way" next to a rotating greeting card holder and a banner of a sunset landscape

What Does the Land Know? Ricardo Levins Morales on Art and Organizing

A crowd of protestors holding signs, one up close reads "The Working Class holds the Power"

Every Life Is a World: Sarah Jaffe on the Power of Collective Grief

President John F. Kennedy is shown a model for AIFLD’s Mexico City housing project in November 1963. Upon its completion the following year, the project was named the John F. Kennedy Memorial Housing Project in honor of the assassinated president. From left: AIFLD Social Projects director William Doherty Jr.; George Meany; Kennedy; and project supervisor Andrew Klay.

Labor's Reckoning: What We Can Learn From the Cold War History of the AFL-CIO

A worker from UNITEHERE! leads a demonstration in Las Vegas.

Expand or Perish: Hamilton Nolan's Simple Message to the Labor Movement

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Autoworkers from Ford Cuautitlán burn the company flag after a march.

3 Decades Ago, There Was a Deadly Attack on Mexican Autoworkers. Here’s What It Can Teach the U.S. Labor Movement Today.

By Isabela Escalona | May 17, 2023

A review of Rob McKenzie’s book, ‘El Golpe,’ and the quest to uncover AIFLD.

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Telling a Complete Story of the Pandemic Must Start with Workers

By Amie Stager | March 27, 2023

What a new book can teach us about listening.

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