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06/12/2024

"Accepting powerlessness is not an option," said Chicago organizer Asha Ransby-Sporn. "Movement leaders need to be honest with our folks about how the odds are stacked against us, and what it will take to build the power we need anyway. We don’t have the luxury of giving up."

Read more from our recent roundtable discussion with five movement organizers on how we build power under Trump here:

Five movement organizers discuss the dangerous terrain of a second Trump term—and the critical task of building working-class power.

03/12/2024

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03/12/2024

This is a crucial time for independent journalism.

This Giving Tuesday, we're counting on you to support In These Times so we can continue to cover the movements at the forefront of the fights against fascism and repression -- and so we can be on those front lines ourselves.

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27/11/2024

For a limited time, if you donate to In These Times you'll get a copy of THE HAMMER by In These Times columnist Hamilton Nolan

In the book, Nolan tells the stories of diverse labor struggles from across the country, and through in-depth profiles of workers, shows us how individuals and their unions can build and wield power even in the face of strong headwinds. These organizers and their stories will provide a roadmap for the movement in the coming years.

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27/11/2024

When it comes to workers’ rights" writes Economic Policy Institute's Samantha Sanders, Trump's "record is crystal clear: from attacks on unions and workers’ freedom of speech to rolling back laws that would have boosted paychecks or expanded worker safety protections, Trump has been a disaster." Here are three major policy changes toward labor we're likely to see in a second Trump administration.

Judging by the first Trump administration, workers and unions are set to face new attacks and a roll back of rights.

22/11/2024

BREAKING: Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia just filed for a historic union—a first at the Bezos-run chain.

Kim Kelly has the story for us:

Workers in Philadelphia say they’re tired of being treated like robots.

21/11/2024

"When Dems won back power in 2020, they were handed a clear mandate: bring real material relief to working people...It turns out it’s Trump who’s back, and it’s largely because Dems squandered a historic opportunity to rein in unchecked capitalism to benefit the working class."

The latest from Miles Kampf-Lassin here:

Democratic failure gave rise to the second round of Trumpism. Collective action is the way out.

12/11/2024

For four years, disciples of MAGA have been waiting for this moment, stewing on the need for social and political retribution. The wait is over—and we need to be ready.

New analysis from Maximillian Alvarez

For four years, disciples of MAGA have been waiting for this moment, stewing on the need for social and political retribution. The wait is over—and we need to be ready.

11/11/2024

"Last week, the U.S. electorate affirmed that one of the groups it doesn’t give a s**t about — which are, to be fair, legion — is victims of sexual assault. Apathy in some quarters is accompanied by gleeful triumph in others, from people who find sexual assault and its perpetrators laudable. Across the country, in high schools and the fetid digital kingdoms of right-wing influencers, one refrain resounds: ​'Your body, my choice!'"

Read the whole op-ed from Talia Lavin here

Across the Right, one refrain resounds: “Your body, my choice.”

10/11/2024

"The election is over. Trump won," says Saqib Bhatti in this new essay. "While many in the United States are justifiably filled with fear and dread about another Trump presidency, our Palestinian and Lebanese neighbors are also filled with fear and dread about the U.S.-made bombs falling on their families. We must recommit to the fight for an arms embargo."

Read more here:

We must recommit to the fight for an arms embargo.

08/11/2024

In a deeply unequal society in which most peoples’ everyday life is wracked by precariousness, anxiety, debt or inflation, the forces of authoritarian populism always have an advantage...When existential issues are on the agenda, from genocide to the mounting climate catastrophe and the manifold crises it will bring, betting on liberalism is a fool’s errand.

More from Alberto Toscano here:

Trump’s recoronation is another symptom of centrism’s global bankruptcy.

07/11/2024

With a second Trump administration on the horizon, we need to be united in our fight against fascism and repression. We are committed to ensuring we can arm progressives and the Left with the news and strategic analysis you need in that fight.

Trump has made it clear that he intends to crack down on immigrant communities, on reproductive rights, on labor rights and on press freedom. Now more than ever, progressive publications like In These Times are here to cover the ways our communities are building power and fighting back.

These are scary times but we will be there every step of the way, as we always are, holding those in power accountable via strong, independent reporting and highlighting the global resistance to fascism and capitalism.

Every Saturday, the In These Times email newsletter provides readers with breaking and exclusive web-only stories, as well as the best of our online-only labor coverage, reporting from rural America and more.

07/11/2024

“It should come as no great surprise" Senator Bernie Sanders said in a statement on Wednesday, "that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working-class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”

Jessica Corbett as more here:

"It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working-class people would find that the working class has abandoned them," Sanders said.

07/11/2024

"In late July when Harris took over the Biden campaign, she could have chosen to break from the White House, she could have chosen to follow international and US law, she could have chosen progressive energy and greater support from the base, she could have chosen life. Instead she chose genocide. And this was the inevitable outcome."

More from Adam Johnson here:

By refusing to budge on Palestine, Harris and the Democrats surrendered their moral advantage, forcing them to track right and alienate their base.

07/11/2024

The Mo********er is back.

Hope will return. But right now there is only a sickening contemplation of what just happened. You’re going to get it good and hard, America. Hang on tight.

Powerful words from Hamilton Nolan. Read more here:

America made its choice: Donald Trump.

05/11/2024

Looking for people to be with tonight? Haymarket, Pilsen Community Books, Nabala Cafe, and In These Times are having an Election Night Hangout in Logan Square. Movies, games, food, drinks, music, camaraderie. If you think you'll make it, sign up here so we can get numbers: https://bit.ly/ElectionNightHang

05/11/2024

Trump and Musk Want the U.S. to Become a Corporatocracy: The two dangerous demagogues are openly colluding with one another to seize political power so they can milk taxpayers and dismantle government regulations that protect the public.

The two dangerous demagogues are openly colluding with one another to seize political power so they can milk taxpayers and dismantle government regulations that protect the public.