Riding the Whirlwind vs. Systematic Organizing Strikers guarding window entrance to Fisher body plant number three. Flint, Michigan, 1937. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs […]

Will the Data Center Boom Make the Climate Go Bust? Caption: Roof of a data center featuring cooling towers and backup generators in Mesa, Arizona. Credit: Rsparks3, Wikimedia Commons In […]

Looking Forward: America’s Marxist Past Caption: Enslaved people picking cotton while watched by a white overseer on horseback. Picture taken circa 1850 in the American […]

Assessing Donald Trump’s Federal Workers Union BloodbathUntil this past year, one had to go back a century or more in U.S. history to find instances where hundreds of thousands of workers were suddenly […]

Leveraging the Laboratories of Democracy to Empower Workers Caption: No Kings Day Protest on the U.S. Capitol grounds on February 17, 2025, organized by the 50501 Movement. Credit: Geoff Livingston, […]

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 […]

Shawn Fain's UAW Is Facing Strong Headwinds Official White House portrait of UAW President Shawn Fain. Photo: Official White House Photo by Erin Scott Editor’s Note: This article […]

Labor and the Struggle for Iranian Democracy Riot police against protesters in Tehranpars, 2019. Photo: Mehr News Agency, CC 4.0 International License For Iranian people who imagine a […]

It's All About the Leaders: Manufacturing Wins in the UAW The United Auto Workers’ (UAW) recent organizing breakthroughs in auto manufacturing in the South, major nationwide strikes, and decisive c […]

Cesar Chavez Revelations Show It’s Time for Truth and Reconciliation in the Labor MovementReports that Cesar Chavez sexually abused girls and women while building the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) into one of the most celebrated and […]

“I Built That Building”: The Working Life of a GlazierFor this article, New Labor Forum contributor Peter Lucas interviewed Charles Anderson, a field superintendent for Walters & Wolf in Southern […]

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 […]