In These Times

A former prison warden argued that a young defendant should be spared ex*****on because prisons “need that labor” and could extract “sweat equity” from him instead.

Calvin John Smiley examines what that language reveals about the relationship between incarceration, forced labor and punishment, and why unions should take a far more aggressive role in organizing alongside incarcerated workers.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/julio-foolio-unions-and-sweat-equity

Something is breaking in U.S. politics, and not just on the Right. As the old guard clings to caution and consultants’ logic, tenants, workers, socialists and grassroots organizers are building a different kind of power.

Miles Kampf-Lassin maps those fractures and the possibility opening inside them.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-rupture-democratic-establishment-left-revolt-gaza-ai-ice