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An increasingly popular refrain you’ll hear on the Left is that if progressive candidates relentlessly focus on economic issues on the campaign trail, they can finally win over working-class voters, effectively burying the culture war under...
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Not Another Train Movie
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Kalamazoo State Hospital, c. 1875.
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The Earners, the Owners, and the Donors
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The present moment is severely damaged and in need of wide-ranging assessment.
Adolph Reed, Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College.
Host of Always at War
Author of Selling Social Justice: Why the Rich Love Antiracism (Verso, 2025)
Pennsylvania-based journalist & writer. Contributing writer, UnHerd. Contributing editor, Bungacast. Also seen in: Jacobin, Compact Magazine, Damage Magazine, etc.
James Adair is an Ottawa based writer and organizer focused on building socialist working class institutions. His writing mainly focuses on the Canadian left.
Center for Working-Class Politics
Modernist. Host of global politics podcast, Bungacast. Co-author, "The End of the End of History" (bungacast.com/book). Editorial group, Damage Magazine. Bylines in New Statesman, American Affairs, UnHerd, Compact, Jacobin, etc.
It's got eyes of brown, watery; nails of pointed yellow
Dustin "Dino" Guastella is Director of Operations for Teamsters Local 623 and a research associate with the Center for Working-Class Politics.
Spent most of my working life in the Canadian Autoworkers (Director of Research). Now working with Amazon organizers
Scott Jenkins is a labor educator and an advisory board member at ASU’s Center for Work and Democracy.
Clinical social worker in NYC. Not very active on Substack, access to essays I’ve written are posted under “activity” section.
Writer of The NASstack. Host of A Closer Look Podcast. Writer/Actor of Eephus (In theaters March 2025)
Sociology professor at NYU, editor of Catalyst journal. Hosts biweekly podcast, Confronting Capitalism.
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