Category Archives: Labor

This article by Anne Lewis was published on The Rag Blog. This is about the fertilizer explosion in West, Texas, on the night of April 17, 2013. It’s also about Patrick Bresnan who found himself in West on the night … Continue reading →

This article was originally published on The Rag Blog. AUSTIN, Texas — On January 29, 2013, University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers convened the UT-Austin community to make recommendations about increasing our efficiency that would include job privatization for … Continue reading →

In light of the right-to-work law recently rushed into law in Michigan, Chris Kromm at Facing South looks at the history of right-to-work and its white-supremacist roots. This week, Republican lawmakers in Michigan — birthplace of the United Auto Workers … Continue reading →

This article was originally posted on BlackCommentator.org. Hostess Bakeries was recently allowed to close its doors when mediation between the union and the company failed.  In St. Louis, the company never really changed its image or racist practices in 40 … Continue reading →

The re-election of Republican politician Scott Walker–union-buster, Tea Party favorite, crook and all-around barking dog—as Governor of Wisconsin after a huge, mass-based recall campaign, has been one of the biggest political stories of this election year. It has certainly dismayed … Continue reading →

The Workers’ Commission of Freedom Road has recently produced two pieces in advance of the 2012 Labor Notes conference: Working People’s Assemblies: Social Justice Unionism for the 21st Century, which takes on the current crises of the labor movement, their … Continue reading →

In the hundred and fifty year history of workers in the San Francisco Bay Area, the watershed event was one that happened 70 years ago – the San Francisco general strike. That year sailors, longshoremen and other maritime workers shut … Continue reading →

The student movement has been fertile ground for the left. Time away from the daily grind of work, exposure to a wide variety of ideas and experiences changed many people’s lives. Thirty years ago political activists coming out of college … Continue reading →

This piece was originally published in Monthly Review. It is reprinted with the author’s permission. Have books you love? Let us know! Check out the Freedom Road GoodReads account and send us an email to add books to our favorites … Continue reading →