How Workers Can Win in 2022: They need to create a crisis in order to turn this country around.

• December 25, 2021
• Posted in Class Struggle, Elections, Labor Movement, Mobilizing, Organizing, Strikes, The Nation, Unions

Our new Gilded Age of obscene wealth and arrogance stands in stark contrast to the everyday struggles faced by tens of millions of exhausted workers fighting just to stay healthy and alive, avoid eviction, make the next month’s rent payment, or find the kind of job that will leave enough free time to help their children with homework. Read More

In Berlin, Overworked Hospital Staff Went on Strike for a Month — and Won: Medics launched a month long strike that forced hospital management to guarantee minimum staffing levels

• December 22, 2021
• Posted in Jacobin, Mobilizing, Organizing, Strikes, Training, Unions

The particular conversational technique that worked so well is part of Jane McAlevey’s tool kit for building mass-participation strikes, developed by drawing on the tactics of the radical Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) unions of 1930s America. Read the article >> Read More

How to Organize Your Friends and Family on Thanksgiving: With the presidential primaries in full swing, this Thanksgiving holiday requires radicals to be organizers

• November 27, 2019
• Posted in Election 2020, Jacobin, Organizing, Published work, Trump

Nobody wants to share a Thanksgiving table with a sanctimonious leftist jerk. But if you’re going to talk politics over turkey, do it the right way. Here’s how. Read More