Marianne Garneau reviews Angry Workers’ Class Power on Zero Hours
Eric Dirnbach reviews Toni Gilpin’s The Long Deep Grudge
Marianne Garneau reviews Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You
Nick Driedger reviews Jane McAlevey’s “No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age”
A former Teamster at UPS and alternate shop steward reviews Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman.”
Eric Dirnbach reviews Elizabeth Anderson’s Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It)
On the surface, this is a review of a classic documentary about a massive, illegal 1965 strike by Canadian postal workers – written by a postal worker, who was himself involved in the rotating strikes at Canada Post last year. But deeper than that, it’s more »
Marianne Garneau reviews Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto. In a new book, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (Verso, 2019), Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser put forward the “women’s strike” as the much-needed reinvention of the strike tactic. The authors are also the organizers more »
The author, who worked as a coal miner as a teenager, reviews this classic documentary about a miners’ strike in Kentucky, and talks about the historic significance of these struggles. Barbara Koppel’s 1976 documentary Harlan County, USA depicts the efforts of coal miners employed by more »