David Bacon

Trump’s Executive Orders — The Return of Cold War Repression

Trump's border czar Tom Homan, who headed the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in the last Trump administration, announced at…

10 months ago

The Evolving Strategy for Defending Immigrant Workers

If employers can get replacement workers at low wages, they have no loyalty to the workers they now have. But…

10 months ago

The Life of the Party, Bring American Communists Out of the Shadows — and Closets

  Published in Jacobin, Aug.15 https://jacobin.com/2024/08/communists-san-francisco-lgbt-race https://davidbaconrealitycheck.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-life-of-party.html In the 20th century, American Communist Party members were portrayed as the Red…

1 year ago

The Use And Misuse Of A “Can”

This year the University would not be defeated so easily. On Jan. 4, in the dead of night, police reoccupied…

2 years ago

The Human Cost of a Strawberry Wage

Civil Eats, April 24 Driving north on California's Highway 101 through the central coast, a traveler approaches the Santa Ynez…

2 years ago

The Strategic Cross-Border Alliance

  Feb. 27 Interview with Benedicto Martinez and Robin Alexander UCLA - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment/NACLA Report…

2 years ago

Forced Migration and Detention Are the Real Immigration Crisis

While Republicans cry “invasion” and Democrats placate them with hard-line border policy, immigrants languish in prisons or die in dangerous…

2 years ago

Oaxacans Celebrate 30 Years of Organizing

Photographs by David Bacon On Dec, 1 the Centro Binacional de Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueña (the Binational Center for Oaxacan Indigenous…

2 years ago

Waiting For Refuge In Mexico City – Mexico City Streets

The neighborhood authorities who maintain the plaza have painted on a wall behind the migrant tents, "Amor es el vinculo…

2 years ago

What Does It Take To Win Power For Workers?

Raising the percentage of organized workers in the U.S. workforce by just one percent would mean organizing over a million…

2 years ago