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Two of Britain’s most powerful unions oppose soft-left MP Ed Miliband’s bid to become chancellor. They fear the green transition could cost jobs in the oil industry, one of the few sectors where workers have consistently secured above-inflation pay raises.

A handful of oil-producing countries and their corporate allies stalled and ultimately derailed the entire process

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Antifascism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Documentary in the 1960s by Julia Alekseyeva University of California Press, 2025. 270 pages. $29.95 paperback. THIS EXUBERANT BOOK reveals, or in a favorite word of film critic and historian Julia Alekseyeva, “unveils,” the deep connections among three seemingly disparate times and places of radical documentary filmmaking. The scenes range… Continue reading The Cultural Vanguard Is Antifascist

For Olivia Reingold, one of the most prominent and prolific contributors to Bari Weiss’s Free Press, defending Israel seems to be a far greater priority than the facts.

Big Tech has grown enormously due to tactics such as price gouging and anticompetitive mergers and acquisitions. New legislation to address these in California faces a stiff and very well-funded resistance.

The surge at the border under Joe Biden was a political failure, and one that MAGA weaponized with brutal efficiency. The Left has to offer its own solutions.

Unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, B.C.) – Activists from Frack Free BC, Stand.earth, and Wilderness Committee have peacefully unfurled a 6m x 6m banner which reads “DEFEAT LNG: RESIST CARNEY’S PIPELINES” at Creekside Park by the Science World soccer ball. Speaking at the banner drop, Stand.earth Oil and Gas Campaign Director Sven Biggs, said: “As […]

While President Trump has repeatedly declared the Green New Deal dead, Green New Deal-type programs are burgeoning at a sub-national level. These initiatives are facilitated by the advent of new technologies that have enormously improved fossil free energy production and use and made them far cheaper. This commentary takes a look at Greentech New Deal initiatives in American cities.

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Three Roads: Labor, Music, Ecology is a new book by LNS president and founder Joe Uehlein. Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants/Communication Workers of America says, “Three Roads is both an instruction manual for building campaigns to win big fights and a deeply personal and uplifting memoir. Joe is a true champion for working people and our planet, and he makes the stories of our fight sing off the page.”

The post LNS Prez Joe Uehlein Touring with New Book and Guitar first appeared on Labor Network for Sustainability.

Minnesota trade unionists are among 15 people indicted in mid-June on charges of “conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer” during ICE attacks on Minneapolis since December 2025...

The post “Then They Came for the Trade Unionists…” first appeared on Labor Network for Sustainability.

Data centers are large warehouse-like structures filled with digital electronics that process artificial intelligence (AI). They can encompass more than a million square feet. Today by one count there are 4,149 data centers in the US, with 2,788 more under construction or planned. LNS is currently preparing an informational guide about the impact of data centers on workers...

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The Green Workers Alliance is an organization of 1,800 renewable energy workers across the country who are mobilizing to win more and better jobs in the sector...

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In two new pieces in his Commentary on Solidarity and Survival series, LNS co-founder and senior strategic advisor Jeremy Brecher reviews Donald Trump’s war against fossil-free energy and examines to what extent it has succeeded.

The post Has Trump Defeated the Greentech New Deal? first appeared on Labor Network for Sustainability.

In March, 2023 the UN General Assembly asked the International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, to rule on the obligation of nations to protect the climate under international law...

The post UN General Assembly Backs World Court: International Law Says Governments Legally Responsible to Protect the Climate first appeared on Labor Network for Sustainability.

In an advisory opinion issued May 21, the International Court of Justice ruled that the right to strike is protected under the International Labor Organization’s Convention No. 87 on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said in a statement...

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Beginning Memorial Day weekend 2026, the free Westracks shuttle will operate Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays through Labor Day.

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Elections keep handing power to elites. Anand Gopal and Ben Burgis debate whether choosing officials by lottery, as ancient Athens did, would be an improvement on representative democracy.

The late Carlo Ginzburg is the best-known pioneer of microhistory, looking at social change from below. His approach was deeply affected by his family’s experience of fascism and the rival antifascist traditions shaping postwar Italian society.

Furious Minds: The Making of the Maga New Right By Laura K. Field Princeton University Press, 2025, 432 pages, $35 hardcover. “Usually, intellectual movements precede the use of political ones, but in the case of Trump’s camp followers they are reverse engineering an intellectual doctrine to match Trump’s basic instincts.” (Jacob Heilbrunn, New York Review… Continue reading The Making of a Menace