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US Labor Unions Still Need to Get Serious About Organizing
11 hours ago — As I’ve written about previously, organized labor continues to amass a staggering cache of cash and investments. Net assets (assets minus liabilities) grew $2.6 billion in 2023, from $32.7 billion in 2022 to $35.3 billion in 2023. According to data from the Bureau of Economic Affairs, union dues are up $871 million as of June 2024, likely ...
About Us - Jacobin
Raison d’être. Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. The print magazine is released quarterly and reaches 75,000 subscribers, in addition to a web audience of over 3,000,000 a month.
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An Ode to the Art of Economic Survival. The Exit Is the Entrance chronicles a working life spanning some 30 jobs in 25 cities across eight states. Author Lydia Paar went AWOL from the military at age 20 and never stopped moving, an escape artist evading everything but her student debt. 08.30.2024.
What You Should Have Read in 2022 - Jacobin
Dec 31, 2022 — There’s no sugarcoating it: 2022 was rough. Between spiraling living costs, the war in Ukraine, and the return of fascists to power in Europe, it gave 2020 a run for its money as a year we’d all rather forget. But it’s also been a year of promise, with workers across the United States and the world striking in response to these challenges ...
Aaron Regunberg - Jacobin
4 days ago — Aaron Regunberg is a progressive organizer, former state representative, and senior climate policy counsel at Public Citizen.
Aging - Jacobin
The older they grew, the more energetic and heroic they became.... Our children are young, they will do heavy work. We are old, we cannot do heavy work, but leaning on our sticks, we will take the lead to encourage them and impart our experiences to them. We are elders, we must sincerely unite first to set an example to our children.”.
Inflation - Jacobin
Inflation. So long as capitalism is not overthrown by the proletarian revolution, it will continue to live in cycles, swinging up and down. Crises and booms were inherent in capitalism at its very birth; they will accompany it to its grave. But to determine capitalism’s age and its general condition — to establish whether it is still ...
Nationalism - Jacobin
Nationalism. True socialists cannot at the same time be nationalists, militarists, and capitalist ‘patriots.’. They are either one or the other; they cannot be both. The self-called socialists who are nationalists first and who set the ‘fatherland’ of their masters above the whole earth and above all the workers of the world are not ...
Dealignment - Jacobin
Dealignment. Issue 47. Fall 2022. Stop and give a hitchhiking family a ride. Never cross a picket line, even when your family can’t pay the rent. Share your last cigarette with a stranger. Steal milk when your kids have none and then give half to the little kids next door (this is what my own mother did repeatedly in 1936).