Why Is the World Bank Attacking Land Reform in the Philippines?
The proposed market-oriented SPLIT reforms, which the bank supports, would undermine the country’s coops.
Domestic Workers: A New Face of Solidarity
In the United States, Canada, and Mexico domestic workers have similar problems, but have taken different directions in trying to force a change.
What Trump Can and Can’t Do to Immigrants
Still relevant from 2017: Understanding how the economic system Trump and his appointees will operate in constrains immigration policy.
How Filipino Migrants Gave the Grape Strike Its Radical Politics
Honoring Larry Itliong and a generation of radicals whose political ideas are as relevant to workers now as they were in 1965.
Migration, Labor, and U.S. Policy
One winter morning in Los Angeles, a group of health care activists set up a street-corner clinic for day laborers.
What Trump Can and Can't Do to Immigrants
People make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under
The People in the Tents Say "Yes"
Fernando Mendez has been a leader of the encampment from the beginning. When Ruben Beas says he's been
Blood on the Palms
In the coastal lowlands of the Colombian department of Nariño, oil palm plantations are spreading through historically Afro-Colombian lands. The Colombian government, with the help of USAID, is promoting the expansion as a way of resettling members of right-wing paramilitary groups. Afro-Colombian a
The Real Political Purpose of the ICE Raids
Using immigration raids as a pressure tactic to get Congress to approve new guest worker programs is not a legitimate use of enforcement.