Progressive Radio Network

Working class

While we cannot accept the racism and misogyny on which Donald Trump’s electoral victory fed, we must recognize that the white working-class voters who largely…
We desperately need a mass socialist party. But the dictum “build it and they will come” won’t get us very far. Such a party has…
History warns us to be very, very careful when using the phrase “white working class.” The reason has nothing to do with political correctness. Rather,…
Jeremy Corban’s unexpected 2015 rise to the leadership of the U.K. Labour Party and his recent resounding victory over the right-wing forces within the party…
“Obama Administration’s economic policies were always meant to stabilize and enrich Wall Street at the expense of the working class and poor.” The 2008 economic…
Jack Rasmus discusses the strike of 36,000 communication workers that began this week at Verizon Communications and how it reflects the radical destruction by corporations…
One of the most firmly entrenched myths of the American Ideology is that the U.S. is a “middle class society,” a “land of opportunity” where…
I have often thought about when that moment came in which my working class sensibility turned into a form of critical class consciousness. For most…
A security guard recently told me he didn’t know how much he’d be earning from week to week because his firm kept changing his schedule…