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Coal mining is already one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. Now, the Trump administration has taken aim at a l...
05/23/2026

Coal mining is already one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. Now, the Trump administration has taken aim at a little-known federal agency that helps enforce miners’ safety rights.

The Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission lost 16 workers and its Pittsburgh office in one day. Kim Kelly reports advocates fear the cuts could be a preview of deeper attacks on mine safety enforcement.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-coal-miners-doge-fmshrc

The Jewish Labor Bund built a vision of Jewish life grounded in “hereness” — the belief that liberation should be fought...
05/22/2026

The Jewish Labor Bund built a vision of Jewish life grounded in “hereness” — the belief that liberation should be fought for where people actually live, work and build community.

In this interview, Molly Crabapple discusses how discovering her great-grandfather’s history with the Bund led her into a larger story of Jewish radicalism, Yiddish culture, labor organizing and anti-Zionism.

What can organizers today learn from the Bund? According to Crabapple: the importance of solidarity across difference — and the need to make political projects practical, democratic and alive.

Read Shane Burley’s interview with Molly Crabapple: https://inthesetimes.com/article/jeiwsh-labor-bund-molly-crabapple-israel-gaza-zionism

In 2021, Starbucks workers in Buffalo became the first in the company’s U.S. stores to unionize.Five years later, nearly...
05/22/2026

In 2021, Starbucks workers in Buffalo became the first in the company’s U.S. stores to unionize.

Five years later, nearly 700 Starbucks stores are unionized — and workers are still fighting for their first contract.

In a new Working People episode, Maximillian Alvarez talks with director Mark Mori and contributing producer Alec Baldwin about the new documentary "Baristas vs Billionaires," the young workers who pushed the Starbucks union drive into the national spotlight, and why labor stories like this matter far beyond one coffee chain.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/baristas-vs-billionaires-movie-alec-baldwin-starbucks-workers-union

“No church is sacred enough, no hospital is critical enough, no school is precious enough to stop the persecution of our...
05/20/2026

“No church is sacred enough, no hospital is critical enough, no school is precious enough to stop the persecution of our neighbors,” writes Congresswoman Delia Ramirez.

In this essay, she calls for an independent prosecutor to investigate alleged crimes by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz—and warns that “the erosion of the rule of law” is on the line.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/ramirez-delia-ice-special-prosecutor-midway-blitz

This is it: our May Day campaign closes tonight at midnight.Readers have helped fund reporting on coal miners’ health an...
05/20/2026

This is it: our May Day campaign closes tonight at midnight.

Readers have helped fund reporting on coal miners’ health and safety, May Day movements ignored by corporate media, and more

Reader-funded journalism matters. Give today: https://bit.ly/48Gc9Dk

“They are not declaring it, but it is like martial law here.”That’s what an activist with Defend Mindoro told Alessandra...
05/20/2026

“They are not declaring it, but it is like martial law here.”

That’s what an activist with Defend Mindoro told Alessandra Bergamin about conditions in Mindoro, where communities resisting unwanted development and extractive projects have been met with aerial bombings, strafing, curfews and intensified military presence.

Bergamin’s latest reporting follows the detention of Chantal Anicoche and a larger pattern of red-tagging, coercion and state violence against activists in the Philippines.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/martial-law-philippines-anicoche-environment

In Baltimore, Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse grew out of the anarchist infoshop tradition and now serves as a hub for ...
05/19/2026

In Baltimore, Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse grew out of the anarchist infoshop tradition and now serves as a hub for social justice movements, mutual aid, books, food and political programming.

In Chicago, Pilsen Community Books makes space for organizing meetings, teach-ins and community events in a neighborhood where working-class and immigrant communities are often pushed out of commercial and civic space.

Co-op bookstores may not topple Amazon. But they prove culture can be more than corporate mush.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cooperative-bookstores-big-idea-collective-sustainability

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05/19/2026

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Tony Mazzocchi came out of the shop floor, not a think tank. At a Queens cosmetics factory, he helped triple the size of...
05/18/2026

Tony Mazzocchi came out of the shop floor, not a think tank. At a Queens cosmetics factory, he helped triple the size of his union local, built shop-floor leadership, started a book club and credit union, and made Local 149 a force for civil rights at a time when much of organized labor was moving the other way.

Steve Early and Rand Wilson remember a working-class hero who understood that a union could be a school, a political home and a fighting organization all at once.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/tony-mazzocchi-labor-unions-life-legacy

Rent strikes are not just fights over rent. Rent strikes are fights over who gets to stay, who gets pushed out, and who ...
05/18/2026

Rent strikes are not just fights over rent. Rent strikes are fights over who gets to stay, who gets pushed out, and who gets to tell the story.

In Chicago, tenants organized after learning their building would be converted into luxury apartments. They settled their eviction cases, but the agreement came with restrictions on public speech—and then a landlord tried to use that agreement to stop reporting based on comments tenants had made before signing it.

Hope Davis reports on what happened and why housing and press freedom experts say the case could set a chilling precedent.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/landlord-chicago-tenants-silence-rent-strike

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