Guest Posts

Retaliation Can’t Stop Growing Starbucks Union
Starbucks is responding to the wave of organizing by union-busting and firing union supporters. But the company's retaliation can't stop this wave.
Jonah Furman
April 23, 2022‘Add Personal Story Here’: Starbucks Anti-Union One-on-Ones Fall Flat
A Starbucks Workers United member and shift supervisor describes how baristas are refusing to fall for the company's union-busting tactics.
Sara Mughal
April 22, 2022Lebanon: a Country in Permanent Crisis
In recent years, Lebanon has been a hotbed for popular uprisings. The cause? A country that is shaped by capitalist crises and world imperialism.
Elia El Khazen
April 20, 2022‘They’re Playing Really Dirty’: Amazon Lashes Back in Staten Island Warehouses
The unionization of the Staten Island warehouse shook Amazon. Now, the company is lashing back at other warehouses and ramping up its union-busting efforts.
Luis Feliz Leon
April 16, 2022Why Was a Ukrainian Filmmaker Censured for ‘Denying the Russians’ Collective Responsibility?’
The Ukrainian Film Academy has expelled a director for saying he does not consider all Russian people enemies. Right-wing nationalism is not the solution to the invasion.
Daniel Werst
April 8, 2022The Unbelievable Struggles of Queer Organizers Trying to Unionize an Ohio Starbucks
From rampant misgendering and denial of promised trans healthcare to hostile store management and callused corporate rebuffs, queer union organizers at one Cleveland Starbucks have their work cut out for them.
Mandy Shunnarah
April 7, 2022Housing Activists Publish Statement Against Sweeps and Call Rally for Friday
Brooklyn Eviction Defense and Rent Refusers Network have put out a statement against the recent evictions of an unhoused encampment at Tompkins Square Park. They have called a Rally this Friday, April 8th to demand an immediate end to the sweeps and real housing for every unhoused person in NYC.
Brooklyn Eviction Defense
April 7, 2022There is No ‘Green Transition’
It’s hard to take talk of a “green transition” seriously when both the total volume of emissions, and the rate of increase in concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, continue to hit new highs.
James Plested
April 4, 2022Staten Island Amazon Workers Pull into the Lead, While Bessemer Re-Vote Is Too Close to Call
New York Amazon warehouse workers are ahead by hundreds of votes in favor of forming a union, while in Alabama the election is too close to call. The efforts reflect the momentum for organizing within Amazon’s vast network of warehouses.
Luis Feliz Leon
April 1, 2022Ukraine-Russia: Like an Economic Earthquake
The war in Ukraine will have damaging economic consequences across the world, and it's happening as the global economy is supposedly recovering from the pandemic slump.
Michael Roberts
March 25, 2022