Bradley Crowder

Bradley Crowder helped organize fast food and academic workers and supported the organization of unemployed workers, especially those in the hospitality and food service industry. He worked with the American Federation of Teachers and the Fight For 15. He studied economics at Texas State University and labor studies at UMass. He was born and raised in the Permian Basin oil patch in west Texas.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Bradley Crowder

Labor

Labor, civil rights, and a new Reconstruction: Thoughts from the MLK conference
January 22, 2025 By Bradley Crowder
Whatever its limits and contradictions, the conference pointed clearly at the tasks at hand: building unity, practicing solidarity, and fighting together for real power.
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Environment

The sand cannot stop
September 6, 2024 By Bradley Crowder
The Permian Basin contains some of America’s most productive oil fields. Our People’s World correspondent reports on efforts to organize the drivers who are essential to Big Oil’s profitable fracking operations there.
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Environment

Hurricane Beryl shows the lethal consequences of monopoly power
July 17, 2024 By Bradley Crowder
The monopoly of companies like CenterPoint Energy plus the political favors of their Republican friends in the state legislature have proven a deadly combination.
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Opinion

Beating Trump isn’t enough
September 14, 2020 By Bradley Crowder
This failure to pivot from the democratic struggle of popular forces against the ultra-right to the class struggle against neoliberalism resulted in conceding populist rage to the astroturfing Koch brothers.
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Bradley Crowder

LATEST ARTICLES BY Bradley Crowder

Labor, civil rights, and a new Reconstruction: Thoughts from the MLK conference

The sand cannot stop

Hurricane Beryl shows the lethal consequences of monopoly power

Beating Trump isn’t enough