We can’t revive labor without reviving workers’ confidence to take action on the job. In 1936 and into 1937, during a period of union weakness, Flint’s sit-down strikers in the auto industry figured out how to do just that.

Sit-down strikers occupying one of the Fisher Body plants in Flint, Michigan. (Bettmann / Getty Images)

On February 11, 1937 — forty-four days after their…

The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.

“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…

The 2006 “Day Without an Immigrant” mobilized millions and killed a draconian anti-immigrant bill. With ICE waging war on immigrant communities, the playbook for a mass strike already exists — we just have to study it.

In 2006, hundreds of thousands of US immigrants staged a one-day nationwide strike and boycott of schools and businesses. (Jim Watson and Saul McSween / AFP via Getty…