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How Evangelicals Turn Supporters into Leaders—and What the Left Can Learn. Part 2

In Part 2 of his series, Eric Blanc draws ten lessons from Rick Warren on retaining members, building small groups, training organizers and delegating responsibility to turn episodic mobilization into durable mass organization.

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11 Oct 2026
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Mary Anne Trasciatti on her new book, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

In Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: The Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution (2025), historian Mary Anne Trasciatti traces Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s path to becoming one of the most important labor radicals in US history, taking part in almost every major left campaign of the first half of the twentieth cen…

12 Oct 2026
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UAW President Shawn Fain Wins Reelection Victory

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain has won a second four-year term, winning 68 percent of the vote in member balloting for the union’s top officers. The election was a referendum on the new fighting direction Fain has taken the union by leading 2023’s Stand-Up Strike against the Big 3 automa…

07 Oct 2026
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Film Review: A Portrait of How Workers Build a Strike

“Who Moves America” is touring the U.S., with upcoming screenings across the West Coast, Northeast, and South. See when it’s coming to your town, or request a screening, here . In the new documentary “Who Moves America,” filmmaker Yael Bridge offers a window into the working-class culture of one o…

10 Oct 2026
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Speedup or Closure: The Global Shop Floor of 1970s Silicon Valley

Home >Journals >International Labor and Working-Class History >FirstView >Speedup or Closure: The Global Shop Floor of 1970s... You have Access Open access English Français International Labor and Working-Class History Article contents Extract “Jet-plane automation” and the “ethos of c…

24 Sep 2026
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Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Protect Their Hearing and Their Craft

Philadelphia Orchestra musicians have won first-in-the-nation protections against hearing loss. The groundbreaking provisions, which could serve as a model for other orchestras, are part of a contract just ratified by Musicians (AFM) Local 77-274. They also secured a raise of almost 13 percent ove…

30 Sep 2026
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Federal worker unions get shutdown settlement win over Trump

SAN FRANCISCO—In a big union win in GOP President Donald Trump’s continuing war against his federal workforce, the workers’ unions beat him in a settlement agreement in federal court—and one the U.S. Supreme Court can’t overturn. But the calendar can. In a 65-page settlement the two sides signed a…

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