Archive of labor movement

Political organizer and historian Mike Davis helped nurture the political development of countless young leftists up until he passed away last October. In this 2011 article, Mike shares key lessons from his lifetime of political struggle to help guide a new generation of organizers politicized by Occupy Wall Street. 

The working-class scholar and labor activist Jeffrey B. Perry passed away in September 2022, leaving behind a legacy of radical writing and labor struggle. Sean I. Ahern remembers Perry's life and work in this obituary.

For two weeks, graduate student workers from across the University of California have been leading the largest academic workers' strike in US history. Striking worker Misha Lerner details the history of the strike and workers' demands in this article.

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Jonah Furman talks Striketober, the US labor movement, and the future of neoliberalism in this in-depth interview

Andrew Anastasi remembers the radical sociologist Stanley Aronowitz

Craig Gent analyses the role of unions and potential for social movements in creating a workers' future without scarcity. Part of the Verso Roundtable on Automation and the Future of Work.