Left-Critic Consciousness and a Right Kind of Worker
If we’re going to criticize trade-union consciousness, we should do the same for “left-critic consciousness,” which too often privileges a “right kind” of worker.
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Class Divides in the Politics of Building
The turn to a “politics of building” is a welcome change in environmental thinking, but the green Left is still at odds in important ways with the labor movement, which better understands what is needed for deep decarbonization and, most importantly, has the power to help bring it about.
The Utility of Utilities
Climate activists are no fans of electric utilities. But the market-based alternatives that they often prefer—for rolling out renewable technologies faster than utilities—will not deliver infrastructural change at the scale we need.
Can the Republican Party Become A Vehicle for Equality?
A Reply to Sohrab Ahmari.
A. Philip Randolph on Labor Day and Racial Justice
A. Philip Randolph was one of the most prominent civil rights and labor leaders of the twentieth century. Here his Labor Day address at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh in 1967 is reprinted in full.
