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A group of people smiling triumphantly, holding pieces of paper. Most are women; many wear scrubs and puffy shower-cap type covers on their heads.

by: Eric Dirnbach
Article published:: September 6, 2017

This new memoir by a union organizer recounts dramatic organizing campaigns with laundry workers and offers thoughts on building worker solidarity and power.

People are lying on their backs on a brick plaza, knees up, feet on the ground. In the center of the photo stands a young Black boy in a white shirt. A Black man in a neat grey suit leans over, wrapping an arm around him as if to comfort him.

Community Organizing

Criminal Justice Reform

AVAILABLE NOW FROM OR BOOKS

A Convergence Series

Mapping the Moment

Posed group of about 30 people, mixed ethnicities, men and women, mostly young.

Electoral Strategy

Community Organizing

DSA’s Sumathy Kumar & the Socialists in Office Committee

By: Stephanie Luce

Group of women sitting on folding chairs around a table. Some have laptops; there are plastic cups and canned drinks and some snacks on the table. They’re of various ethnicities; some have cornflower blue T-shirts with “Nelsie Yang” printed in white letters.

Electoral Strategy

Danger from the Right

Mapping the Moment: Elianne Farhat Says Rifts Reflect Our Power

By: Tobita Chow

In the foreground, a white woman with short dark hair and a red-orange sleeveless shirt gestures to an easel with a large pad on it. She holds a microphone and two markers in her hands. People are clustered around her; those facing the camera are all women, two white and one Black. The woman at the easel is Katey Lauer. She’s facilitating a state meeting of West Virginia Can’t Wait.

Electoral Strategy

West Virginia

Mapping the Moment: Katey Lauer says West Virginia Can’t Wait

By: Marcy Rein

Movement Voices

Tobita Chow

Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Sean Estelle

Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon

Podcasts

Beverly Guy-Sheftall: All Our Oppressions are Interconnected

Women's Research and Resource Center

Hosted by: Sheri Davis; and Steven Pitts

Labor Organizing

Electoral Strategy

Racial Justice

How Border Deployment Led to Union Organizing In Texas

By: Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon

‘Who Gets the Bird?’: Looking the Real Labor Movement in the Eye

By: Jonah Furman

‘Power Concedes Nothing’ Preview: UNITE HERE

By: Convergence Magazine

By: Carl Davidson

Wake Up, Everybody! Midterms are Almost Here

By: Rand Wilson and Peter Olney

Key to Strategy #3: Assess the Balance of Forces

By: Max Elbaum

By: Steven Pitts; and Toussaint Losier

NTanya Lee: We Need a Liberatory Strategy for Today and Tomorrow

By: Steven Pitts; and Toussaint Losier

Bringing Our Humanity to the Long Work of Change

By: Elisabeth Long

Making Sense of the War in Ukraine

Global militarism

To see beyond the propaganda around the war in Ukraine—and build meaningful solidarity—we need deep study, and strong ties with Left activists in the region.