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Three articles over the past several months in the Industrial Worker with three views in correspondence with one another. Three views – despite ebbs and flows between them – largely reflect the current outlook of many IWW members. A Ypsilanti fellow worker initiated it all with “Rebuilding the IWW”, followed with “A Response” by fellow … Continue reading "Letter to the Editor: A Wobbling Cross Section"

The IWW has a member retention problem. The following graph comes from an article FW Simon recently wrote and the IW published called “Our Goals, Our Methods, and Our Efficacy.” It demonstrates the number of initiations into the IWW versus how many members remained from those years. The article blames onboarding, failure to engage members, … Continue reading "Letter to the Editor re: More and Better Data"

The civil rights movement’s commitment to nonviolence wasn’t just moral but also strategic, based on a calculation of how the movement could best exert power. No practitioner of that nonviolence was more effective and disciplined than Rev. James Lawson.

Employers have long put customers to work watching and judging workers. With the development of technology like Ray-Ban Meta glasses, now customers have new surveillance tools of their own.

Donald Trump’s trade demands, which would have killed off whole sectors of the productive economy, like auto, were impossible to accept. The negotiations’ collapse could open space for democratic industrial strategy that rejects free trade.

France’s first presidential debate on Thursday was hosted by employers’ group Medef. Entrepreneurs laughed when left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon called for wage raises, but he was deadly serious.

Farmers have relied on plastic since the 1960s, when the mass production of affordable agricultural tools derived from petrochemicals made them widely accessible. Plastic mulch quickly became a cornerstone of crop production, helping farmers boost yields of everything from corn to tomatoes by stabilizing soil temperature and controlling diseases and weeds with fewer pesticides. Now […]

When the Sand Creek Fire crested Montana’s Maverick Mountain 16 days ago, Cory Birkenbuel watched as firefighters and aircraft fought to keep the flames from taking a place that had been part of his life since before he was born.  Birkenbuel likes to tell the story of his mother, Peggy, skiing at Maverick while pregnant […]

From Engels’s militia to the Ukrainian trench, the socialist argument over conscription was about whose war, and whose army.

In August 2024, excavation crews breached the last of four dams on the Klamath River in far northern California, marking the first time in over a century that salmon could swim above the dam sites.  Now, new research published on Thursday shows that in the two years since dam removal, over 20,000 chinook salmon have […]

Read this article in English. Esta historia cuenta con el apoyo del Centro Pulitzer. JALAPA, Guatemala—En una tarde calurosa y bochornosa, en el pequeño pueblo montañoso de El Duraznal, Soila Elizabeth Cruz recogía basura plástica atrapada en la tierra debajo de una cerca con alambre de púas, mientras los camiones pasaban zumbando. La comunidad se […]

VINELAND, N.J. – Community and environmental groups are demanding answers from Microsoft after an investigation alleged that an AI data center backed by the company in Vineland, N.J. has been running dozens of gas generators without permits, in direct violation of federal and state law. According to the investigation published earlier today by Floodlight and […]

The new slasher film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma promises “a frenzy of psychosexual mania.” What director Jane Schoenbrun delivers is tamer but considerably funnier.

When ocean temperatures soar, the consequences reverberate beyond the water. In coastal communities, marine heat waves threaten livelihoods, food security and human health—particularly the well-being of children.  New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that greater exposure to marine heat waves increases the odds of children dying, suffering stunted growth […]

Researchers analyzing modern and fossil corals from the Galápagos Islands concluded that global warming has intensified El Niño cycles over the last 40 years, making them more extreme than natural variations seen during the previous millennium. Their study, published Thursday in Science, revealed sharper swings in sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean […]

Media coverage around Michigan’s Senate race and Abdul El-Sayed’s ties to Hasan Piker has become constant and hysterical. Less discussed: Michigan Republican Mike Rogers’s career-long advocacy for an Iran war now wreaking economic havoc on Michigan.

Democratic Party centrists’ well-funded and single-minded war on socialists is leading them to take increasingly contorted, absurd positions against figures like leftist streamer Hasan Piker.

Blue-collar and white-collar workers increasingly find themselves on opposite sides of the groundswell against AI data centers. But there are opportunities for building trades unions to make common cause with data center opponents.

United Auto Workers members are now voting by mail ballot for their top officers. The election will decide whether President Shawn Fain, who led 2023’s stand-up strike against the Big Three automakers, will continue the effort to reform the UAW.

Spooked by anti-billionaire talk from the Democratic Party base, ultrawealthy donors are backing Republicans this cycle. That confronts the Democrats with a choice they’ve spent years avoiding: chase big money or build mass politics.