Vitya Ershov reflects on the limits of online activism and the decline of parties and trade unions. Drawing on Anton Jäger’s idea of hyperpolitics, he asks how fleeting outrage can become lasting collective action.
Vitya Ershov reflects on the limits of online activism and the decline of parties and trade unions. Drawing on Anton Jäger’s idea of hyperpolitics, he asks how fleeting outrage can become lasting collective action.
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Caption : Thousands of protesters march during the Ice Out of MN march in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 23, 2026. Credit : Lorie Shaull, Flickr I’ve lived in Minnesota for the last eight years, but I never felt like a Minnesotan until Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) invaded our stat…
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Three years ago the United Auto Workers, glowing with confidence after a successful strike at the Big 3 and pledging ambitious new organizing drives, put out a call for a national strike on May 1, 2028. UAW President Shawn Fain called for unions to align their contracts with the Big 3 to build lev…
In every sector of the capitalist economy, firms have developed business practices that routinize the extraction of surplus value from workers through production of commodified goods and services. This appears as the designation of “Key Performance Indicators” toward which managers optimize the ope…
In this excerpt from the new book This Is How We Win: A Guide to Building Working-Class Uprisings , SEIU Local 26 President Greg Nammacher describes how his union, its members battered and exhausted from ICE attacks, went on the offensive against a federal occupation of Minnesota. -Editors Trump’s…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has established the Office of Worker Power, a first-in-the-nation initiative to connect workers with education, resources, and organizations to help them form a union or demand better working conditions on the job. The office will also allow workers more input int…
The publication of Danielle Tartakowsky’s latest book is welcome news: it is part of a historiographical and editorial revival centered on the history of labor exchanges.
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"The Bottom of the Sea" is, originally, the Arabic name for Bikini Bottom, the fictional city located at the bottom of the ocean where SpongeBob and his friends live in the famous cartoon. But in recent days, it became a trend on social media, was then attacked by the government-controlled media, a…
Labor Journalism, Labor Feminism: Women at the Federated Press explores the cooperative labor-focused news service, Federated Press (FP). The FP reached hundreds of labor publications and millions of readers and hired many labor journalists. It also fielded stories provided by unpaid rank-and-file …
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