Kim Kelly
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Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Why the Warrior Met Strike Is Ending
After 23 months, the union tells more than 1,000 coal miners in Alabama it’s time to head back to work—without the contract they want. → Read More
Mehmet Oz’s crudité video gave opponent John Fetterman a golden opportunity
Wealthy Republicans absolutely love cosplaying as working-class everymen, and Oz’s performance was dismal even by those subterranean standards. → Read More
Starbucks Baristas in Philly Are Brewing Up a Union
Workers at four locations have joined the organizing wave, and the beverage behemoth is about to learn what happens when you mess with Philly. → Read More
Journalist Mary Heaton Vorse Spent Decades on the Front Lines of Labor
The Progressive Era labor journalist, feminist, and war correspondent devoted her long and uncompromising career to giving poor and working people a voice. → Read More
Maida Springer Kemp Championed Workers’ Rights on a Global Scale
The Panamanian garment worker turned labor organizer, Pan-Africanist, and anti-colonial activist advocated for US and African workers amid a Cold War freeze. → Read More
The Militant Passion of Emma Tenayuca
Eighty-four years ago this week, this Mexican American labor organizer led one of the largest strikes in Texas history—and was arrested and blacklisted for her trouble. → Read More
Ah Quon McElrath and the Power of Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity
The Chinese Hawai’ian labor activist and social worker would ask, “Look, you are exploited, what are you going to do about it?” → Read More
A Bold New Flavor of Tennessee Whiskey: Union-Made
In the heart of Nashville, the United Distillery Workers of Tennessee are fighting to become the state’s first unionized distillery. → Read More
Concrete Actions Toward Worker Power
Three hundred Teamsters in the Seattle area are bringing the local construction industry to a standstill. → Read More
The Radical Vision of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes
Murdered by gangsters on a dictator’s orders in 1981, these pathbreaking Filipino labor organizers fought for union democracy. → Read More
Workers Are Paying the Price for Kroger’s Profits
A survey of 10,000 grocery-story employees lays out the job’s human cost. → Read More
The Indomitable Rev. Addie L. Wyatt
The trailblazing Black labor leader and civil rights activist took her fight for equality from the packinghouse to the pulpit. → Read More
Why Alabama Coal Miners Are Still on Strike
Greg Pilkerton has been fighting for better pay and working conditions for 10 months. He explains why he and his union comrades aren’t giving up. → Read More
What We Can Learn From Portland’s “Queen of the Bolsheviks”
More than a century ago, the US government tried to silence Marie Equi, a radical queer abortionist. → Read More
100 years after the country's largest labor war, its dark legacy still looms
In Brookwood, Alabama, in the northern part of the state where the tip of the Appalachian Mountain range digs deep into the red clay, 1,100 coal miners are on strike. They, their families, and their union, the United Mine Workers of America, are… → Read More
Labor Day lessons from the American union movement's hidden history
This year, find inspiration in the bravery and sacrifice of generation after generation of workers who had nothing left to give — but still gave everything they had. → Read More
The Coal Miners' Wives Keeping a Strike Alive in Alabama
The women in miners' lives is a labor trope that reaches back centuries, but these women are on the front lines of the struggle here and now. → Read More
King Woman: Celestial Blues Album Review
Kristina Esfandiari and her band move from the darkness to light on their second album, taking liberally from post-rock, grunge, and doom to tell a tale equally inspired by a childhood brush with death and Paradise Lost. → Read More
Alabama’s Coal Miners Are Striking for Their Lives
Over a thousand miners at Warrior Met Coal have been on strike now for over two months, and the conflict is only heating up. → Read More
Mare Cognitum: Solar Paroxysm Album Review
Jacob Buczarski’s cerebral, complex melodic black metal is an elegy for a dying planet. There is little hope on offer here, but plenty of silvery, well-executed riffs. → Read More