The Teachers’ Strike, the World Cup, and the Struggle for Mexican Sovereignty
As Mexico co-hosts the World Cup, the CNTE fights a broader struggle over who controls the nation’s wealth, public institutions, and future.
At a Historic Conference, Frontline Groups Push for a Just Transition
Though the First Conference on Transitioning away from Fossil Fuels is a historic achievement, movement organizers question if it will create needed pathways toward a just transition.
Milei’s War against the Working Class
Argentina’s sweeping labor reform, heavily resisted in the streets, is set to roll back nearly a century of hard-fought rights.
Cuba’s Cosmopolitan Enclaves: Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns (Review)
A new book places multiracial sugar workers in Cuba’s northeast at the vanguard of inter-war internationalism, solidarity, and anti-imperialism.
The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice (Review)
The recent book by Emma Amador examines Puerto Rican women social workers’ advocacy for political and social justice under U.S. colonialism throughout the 20th century.
Mexico’s Teachers Demand Pensions Over Profit
Education workers in Mexico are leading a renewed struggle to reclaim public retirement systems from global finance.
From Anti-War to Anti-Immigrant
Once vocal advocates for workers’ rights in war-torn El Salvador, some Albany labor activists turned against Central American migrants at home—fueling exclusionary narratives that persist today.
Milei’s Chainsaw Slashes Mental Health in Buenos Aires
In March, 200 workers were dismissed from the Laura Bonaparte Hospital as part of Milei’s drastic cuts to the country’s public budget. Mental health care has deteriorated, having dire effects on patients.
The Reinvention of the Strike: 10 Years of Feminist Uprising in Argentina
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Ni Una Menos movement. Understanding the tensions that mark these moments of intense rearrangements and changes in increasingly militarized capitalism is urgent.
At the Thresholds: Labor Organizing as Travesti-Trans Formal Workers in Argentina
Travesti and trans workers in the formal sector expand imaginaries about the relationship between LGTBQ+ people and work, contributing to broader labor struggles for all of society.
Transfeminist Struggles Against Debt and Dispossession
In Argentina, sexual dissidents mobilize transversal alliances to denounce indebtedness as a tool of capitalist displacement and violence.
Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade (Review)
Schuhrke documents the AFL-CIO’s anti-communist campaign and role in weakening left-wing labor unions around the world, between the 1940s and 1990s.
