Maximillian Alvarez

“I'm a democrat with lowercase D, and I hope someday we can win the fight for what the Democratic Party can be. I'm not willing to let go of all that infrastructure because a few folks who can't let go of power say that it's theirs.”

Four years ago, then-President Joe Biden and both parties in Congress blocked railroad workers across the US from striking. Railroad workers tell us things have only gotten worse on the job since then.

“[British Petroleum] just made $5.7 billion in three months and they're paying a bigger dividend. We've been here sacrificing our personal lives for 20 years and they are intentionally hurting us and our families. It's shameful.”

Healthcare workers in Vermont's flagship health network say they and their patients are paying the price for a historic crisis caused by decades of mismanagement by overpaid, corporate-style administrators.

Facing draconian repression from federal and state governments, Zionist groups, and their own universities, student-organizers in Maryland tell us how the student-led Palestine solidarity movement is adapting its tactics in the new school year.

25 years ago, Barbara Ehrenreich saw the inhumane brutality of capitalism and the invisible realities of working-class life that so many Americans ignored then but can't ignore now.

“Gary and Northwest Indiana are experiencing a Katrina moment.” We speak with residents and community leaders about the ongoing energy blackout in Gary, Indiana and the conditions that led to this avoidable national tragedy.

For the last five months, oil giant British Petroleum (BP) has locked 800 workers out of their jobs at a crude oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana. The facility, located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, is BP's last unionized oil refinery in the United States. BP says it is pursuing “modernized job structures, training, and upskilling,” but workers and their union—United Steelworkers Local 7-1—say that the company has not bargained in good faith, that its contract proposals pose blatant existential threats to workers' jobs, pay, and collective bargaining rights, and that the company is illegally trying to crush the union out of existence with the lockout.

Following firings from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, workers and community members came together to create the Pittsburgh Progress.

“It's like becoming an astronaut to say, ‘Oh, I'm going to go have Taylor Swift's career.' It's absurd… What I want more than anything else, which we have a lot of, is freedom. We make enough money to get by, but we can do whatever we want.”