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Wired for Profit: Fifth in a series about Alabama Power’s influence over electric rates, renewable energy, pollution and politics in the Yellowhammer State. BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Darrell Nance knows he’s being watched. We all are.  Nance, a longtime resident of the city and founder of DeFlock Birmingham, can easily point out the cameras to you if you’re […]

Both President Donald Trump and a clean energy super PAC that backed Darline Graham, sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, are celebrating her victory over Rep. Ralph Norman in Tuesday’s South Carolina Republican Senate primary. The Invest in Tomorrow Coalition (ITC), financed by solar entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley venture capitalists, spent $1 million on […]

KERMAN, Calif.—One hundred degrees on a steamy Thursday afternoon and not much can be seen along the dust-blown avenue in Kerman. A school bus cruises by. Cows lap up water or feed behind a fence. A tractor crosses the road.  What’s most evident in this span of the San Joaquin Valley is a seemingly misplaced […]

WINDBER, Pa.—Standing on the rocky banks of Paint Creek in western Pennsylvania, Jim Panaro pointed out the colors of contamination. The orange staining the boulders is from iron, he explained, and the milky-white pools stagnating at the surface are aluminum. Likely lurking beneath the surface are other metals—copper, cadmium, arsenic—toxic to both aquatic life and […]

¡La DNFSB está bajo amenaza! La DNFSB es una agencia federal independiente que supervisa la seguridad de las operaciones nucleares en Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Actualmente, la Junta tiene solo […]

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Residents and rescue workers in flood-ravaged valleys of Nepal faced the threat of a new wave of inundation Friday, as scientists warned that debris had blocked rivers upstream, forming fragile dams ready to burst.  In the narrow upper valleys, Wednesday’s flood wave crested over the tops of buildings and homes. It destroyed everything in its […]

The Trump administration is expediting an environmental review of the 800-mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline System that would reauthorize the project for another 30 years, including the pipeline, pump stations, access roads, bridges and a fuel gas line that lie within the right-of-way. The Bureau of Land Management is also shortening the public comment period for review […]

The response of Colombia’s new leader, Abelardo de la Espriella, to a deadly earthquake has been tawdry beyond belief. The reactionary president has used the disaster for publicity stunts and will only accept overseas aid from his far-right allies.

In 1924 the Industrial Workers of the World was torn apart by scandal. Some argue that the Communist Party was at the root of it. Others argue the root of it was repression from after the first World War. But a recent look at the history from that time and the primary documents that are … Continue reading "Grifters, Cons, and the IWW"

Editors note: This is the tenth issue in the “Pacey Pratt the Sabo Cat” series. This comic originally appeared in the 2026 Summer print edition of Industrial Worker.

It is always a good time to organize. Some times, however, are better than others, and we are entering a period that appears promising. The political and cultural consensus of neoliberalism is breaking down and the imperial state has been forced to blink. Unlike the early 2010s and 2016, there is little liberal energy from … Continue reading "Against the Adventurist Creep"

Three articles over the past several months in the Industrial Worker with three views in correspondence with one another. Three views – despite ebbs and flows between them – largely reflect the current outlook of many IWW members. A Ypsilanti fellow worker initiated it all with “Rebuilding the IWW”, followed with “A Response” by fellow … Continue reading "Letter to the Editor: A Wobbling Cross Section"

The IWW has a member retention problem. The following graph comes from an article FW Simon recently wrote and the IW published called “Our Goals, Our Methods, and Our Efficacy.” It demonstrates the number of initiations into the IWW versus how many members remained from those years. The article blames onboarding, failure to engage members, … Continue reading "Letter to the Editor re: More and Better Data"

The civil rights movement’s commitment to nonviolence wasn’t just moral but also strategic, based on a calculation of how the movement could best exert power. No practitioner of that nonviolence was more effective and disciplined than Rev. James Lawson.

Employers have long put customers to work watching and judging workers. With the development of technology like Ray-Ban Meta glasses, now customers have new surveillance tools of their own.

Donald Trump’s trade demands, which would have killed off whole sectors of the productive economy, like auto, were impossible to accept. The negotiations’ collapse could open space for democratic industrial strategy that rejects free trade.

France’s first presidential debate on Thursday was hosted by employers’ group Medef. Entrepreneurs laughed when left-wing candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon called for wage raises, but he was deadly serious.

Farmers have relied on plastic since the 1960s, when the mass production of affordable agricultural tools derived from petrochemicals made them widely accessible. Plastic mulch quickly became a cornerstone of crop production, helping farmers boost yields of everything from corn to tomatoes by stabilizing soil temperature and controlling diseases and weeds with fewer pesticides. Now […]

When the Sand Creek Fire crested Montana’s Maverick Mountain 16 days ago, Cory Birkenbuel watched as firefighters and aircraft fought to keep the flames from taking a place that had been part of his life since before he was born.  Birkenbuel likes to tell the story of his mother, Peggy, skiing at Maverick while pregnant […]

From Engels’s militia to the Ukrainian trench, the socialist argument over conscription was about whose war, and whose army.