Deric Blanc News Today

Corrections that appeared in print on Friday, April 26, 2026.

One labor expert and professor said it is "hard to overstate how big a deal this is."

After an eight-year hiatus, local woodworking clubs, rotary groups, retired teachers and current educators revived the woodshop elective this past August.

After an eight-year hiatus, local woodworking clubs, rotary groups, retired teachers and current educators revived the woodshop elective this past August.

The flurry of activities represents an ideological shift that has reshaped a union — once known as a conciliatory behind-the-scenes dealmaker — into a more populist workers’ rights movement that eagerly blocks state policies it opposes and pushes for new initiatives, such as better social-emotional supports for students and greater racial equity.

The work stoppages in Massachusetts coincide with a national resurgence in strikes across the public and private sectors that started in 2018.

In his latest Substack newsletter, US socialist and labour-movement writer and activist Eric Blanc writes about the challenges posed for workplace organisation by the fact that many more workers live over wider areas than in the past.

In his latest Substack newsletter, US socialist and labour-movement writer and activist Eric Blanc writes about the challenges posed for workplace organisation by the fact that many more workers live over wider areas than in the past.

Paul Le Blanc — For those wanting to make use of Marxism to understand and change the world, among the most important classical thinkers are, surely, Rosa Luxemburg and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

Stephen Franklin on labor's losses—and explosive resurgence