2018 elections

Teachers rebellion maps our path to power

April 9, 2018 By Erica Smiley

Like their forebears, working people today are not waiting until the perfect legal framework is in place before they fight back.

MLK’s economic ‘radicalism’ embraced at massive march and rally in Memphis

April 4, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

There was a call to register and vote in 2018 to remove the “exploiters” in the White House and the Congress.

Democrats better remember: Unions carried Pennsylvania’s 18th District

March 28, 2018 By Richard Trumka And Rick Bloomingdale

Conor Lamb's victory wasn’t because of some stale advice whispered into his ear by an overpaid consultant, or because of super PACs or corporate donations. It certainly wasn’t thanks to the Democratic Party establishment.

Signs of a Democratic ‘wave’ year in Illinois primary

March 21, 2018 By John Bachtell

In a troubling sign for Republicans, turnout among Democrats increased 300 percent over 2014 and 30 percent over 2010.

Low-wage workers, progressive Dems push minimum wage hike

March 9, 2018 By Mark Gruenberg

Half of the 26 million full-time minimum-wage workers and two-thirds of all minimum-wage workers including part-timers, are female, 11 million are parents and 4.5 million of them are single parents.