Thousands march through Chicago for May Day 2025
protest
Working Class History Podcast – Pirates
Double podcast episode about the Golden Age of Piracy, with historian Marcus Rediker. The legendary pirates of this era weren’t just thieves—they were daring rebels challenging the very systems of…
Ice kidnaps
labor and immigrant rights activists
AI Threatens Literary Translation
The etymology of the word translation—“to carry across”—conjures an image of physical labor. It is deeply relational, requiring at least two bodies, those of an author and of the person…
433 protests
at 433 park site in the US
Fired Federal Workers
in there own words
dictatorship of the proletariat
the transitional phase from a capitalist to a communist economy
The Memphis sanitation strike
Mayor Henry Loeb refused to recognize the strike and rejected the City Council vote, insisting that only he possessed the power to recognize the union.
We have to support the workers first
We’re not going to buy our way out of this.