Jeremy Brecher, author of the labor-history classic Strike!, considers the recent wave of teacher walkouts, how we can overcome America's "strike drought," and the future role of mass disobedience in democratic politics.
An article highlighting how the legendary organizer navigated tensions between multiple organizing traditions.
Smart organizing during whirlwind moments seeds the ground for new waves of action in the future.
In the mid-1980s, Central American solidarity activists developed a model for building resistance before disaster strikes. Their efforts may have stopped a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua.
Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera's 2020 film, The Infiltrators, profiles a distinctive tactic used by the immigrant rights movement in the Obama era.
Richard Nixon told everyone he was indifferent to protests—in fact, he was obsessed with them.
If there is a vision of U.S. patriotism that is redeemable, it must surely draw on Seeger's insistence that it encompass both ardent dissent and robust internationalism.
A 2019 article reviewing the history of the Seattle general strike a century before and discussing the ongoing relevance of mass strikes.
Twenty years ago, demonstrations against the World Trade Organization opened the space for today's critics of neoliberal capitalism.