Volume 35, Issue 1, Winter 2026 Contents From the Editorial Team Kent Wong: Educator, Organizer, Visionary 1956-2025  By Gregory Mantsios UAW to Labor: Go Big or Go […]

From “Right-to-Work” to “No-Right-to-Exist”: Florida Public Education Sector Unions in an Age of Authoritarianism Editor’s Note This article appears as SB 1296 makes its way through the Florida Senate this month. SB 1296, which requires 50% of a bargaining […]

How New York Unions Can Rebuild under Mayor Zohran MamdaniIn June 2025, Zohran Mamdani shocked the political establishment when he, as a little-known state assemblymember, won the Democratic primary for […]

Seizing the Moment: Lessons from the Front Lines of the UAW’s Fight to Scale Up The United Auto Workers’ 2023 Stand Up Strike against Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis delivered historic gains for our members. But just as s […]

Is Labor at the Point of No Return? Unions are in a death spiral, and the numbers show they could nearly vanish within our lifetime. That’s not alarmism. It’s arithmetic. Private sec […]

Morally Bankrupt: The Dollar System After American Legitimacy Credit: Mackenzie Marco, Unsplash American hegemony is in crisis. Since World War II, the coercive powers of Wall Street and the […]

Reclaiming May Day for a Working-Class Fightback Caption: A crowd at a union rally on August 16, 2024, as UAW Local 2300 was in the middle of contract negotiations with Cornell […]

Kent Wong: Educator, Organizer, Visionary 1956-2025 Caption: Kent Wong pictured in front of the UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center in MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, California. Credit: Sam […]

Volume 34, Issue 3, Fall 2025 Contents Can Trump’s GOP Make a Home for the Working Class? Does “Conservative Leftism” Have a Future? By Chris Maisano How the Democ […]

The Labor Movement Must Call the Question on Medicare Privatization Caption: Seniors and retirees protest cuts to Medicare, July 13, 2023. Credit: William Alatriste/NYC Council Media Unit The passage of […]

Moving Beyond Free Trade and Protectionism: Tariffs Then and Now Caption: Bahamas flag container ship, Myriad, Iyo Nada, Seto Naikai, Japan. February 23, 2023. Credit: EZEK, Flickr Trade policy has […]

“You’re Terminated”: Under Siege at the DOEEditor’s Note On May 9, 2025, New Labor Forum’s “Working-Class Voices” columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Alyssa Picard. At the time, P […]

The Urban Librarian: Out of the Stacks and into the CommunityEditor’s Note For this article, New Labor Forum’s Working-Class Voices columnist Kressent Pottenger interviewed Kayla Hoskinson, Librarian and Co- […]

Building a Conservative Labor Movement: American Compass and the Right’s Pro-Worker Policy AgendaWhat does it look like when the right attempts to articulate its own version of a “pro-worker” program? That is the question driving the Ame […]

Volume 34, Issue 2, Spring 2025 Contents Thinking Big for Organizing, Past and Future Could Sisyphus Have Tried Harder? Reflections on the Sweeney Administration’s Efforts a […]

How the Democrats Can Rebuild a Working-Class Majority What is the best way to build working-class power when labor’s leverage over capital is near a historic low? With private-sector union density at j […]

Does “Conservative Leftism” Have a Future?Commentators right and left survey today’s political landscape and conclude, with historian Matt Karp, that “the political story of the 21st cen […]

Revisiting Harry Braverman’s Classic Labor and Monopoly Capital Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century By Harry Braverman Monthly Review Press, 1974 ISBN: […]

Resentment and Recrimination: Can U.S. Labor Unions and Indian Tech Workers on H-1B Visas Ever Get Along? Credit: RDNE Stock project, Pexels The start of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term will probably be remembered for the flurry of e […]

Could Sisyphus Have Tried Harder? Reflections on the Sweeney Administration’s Efforts at Mass Organizing, Thirty Years Later Credit: Luis Feliz Leon, labor journalist. Caption: Amazon delivery driver Jogernsyn Cardenas stopped his van to join the strike and was […]