Taking on voter suppression is one piece in a long-term project of building grassroots organization and political power.
Grassroots groups rooted in communities of color and low-income communities are rising up against efforts to suppress the vote.
Contending for political power on the state level, especially in the South, is critical for winning fights in the short and long term.
We need to create an urgency that puts pressure on Senators to finalize a robust relief package and pass it now!"
The arrest of Black Lives Matter protestors in Portland by unidentified federal officers marks a dangerous escalation of political repression in the US.
The pathologies afflicting the U.S. body politic today have deep roots in the history and underlying structure of the country.
If we fail in November, the GOP is determined that we will never be given a second chance.
Members and staff from three unions speak about ways unions can take the fight for racial justice to new levels.
We've hit a social movement trifecta: a racial justice uprising and pandemic in an election year where everything is on the line.
By Max Elbaum The COVID-19 pandemic and the uprising to defend Black lives have cast a spotlight on a level of deep-rooted inequality, ruling class degeneration, and public-health-be-damned behavior that makes the U.S. unique even among capitalist countries. My next column will examine the sources of these pathologies in a nation founded on racial slavery […]