Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden resigned in disgrace last week after a series of emails in which he used racist, sexist, and anti-gay remarks to criticize other people working within the NFL. Gruden’s remarks surfaced within the course of a separate investigation,...
After decades with very few strikes, this fall is seeing a mini strike wave with small strikes scattered throughout the U.S. And in the past month, there have been four major strikes: 2,000 Seattle carpenters just ended a winning strike; 1,400 workers at Kellogg’s...
More than 10,000 workers at John Deere, one of the largest farm equipment manufacturers in the U.S., went on strike last week at more than a dozen plants in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas — the first major walkout at the company in over three decades. Deere workers had...
There are nearly one hundred enormous cargo ships backed up off shore at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, which handle 40% of U.S. imports. Some ships have been waiting to dock and unload since August 23. And one of these idle ships was the likely cause of a...
Introduction With all of the challenges facing us today – environmental destruction, the public health crisis of the pandemic, the overall immiseration of many of our lives – we have plenty of reasons to look at the potential for a radically different society to meet...
