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Today, we publish the 2026 edition of the PALESTINE PAPERS uplifting Boston-area organizers for Palestine liberation, the pulse of the movement itself. Read, download, and share: working-mass.com/2026/04/14/t...

With the North Shore Labor Council putting up verifier flyers and organizers training verifiers to respond with whistles like in Minneapolis, Lynn is preparing to defend its community from ICE. working-mass.com/2026/04/08/l...

This new political movement [of] labor bureaucrats, pseudo-populist politicians, and disaffected working class voters, is increasingly shaping the labor movement with a new right-wing force, animated and with collaboration of a wing of labor leaders and strategists. working-mass.com/2026/03/26/w...

"In a time when rising healthcare costs and insurance prices are putting increasing financial burdens on working-class Americans, affordable healthcare was a must-have for Stop & Shop workers in their contract. Read our latest from Marlborough: working-mass.com/2026/03/17/u...

The Trump administration continues to attack federal workers — shredding contracts, straining our workplaces to the breaking point & cutting vital services. But every attack is fuel for new waves of organizing. We stand together & we won't back down. #unionstrong www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Opinion: '[Labor leadership] for the most part consider new organizing to be too difficult, too expensive, too controversial... with lavish lifestyles and pursuits taking the place of the hard slogging work to reach out and mobilize the unorganized masses.' working-mass.com/2026/03/12/i...

On Emmanuel College dining hall staff's campaign with @local26-unitehere.bsky.social for first contract: 'The work was intensive. Salazar described “meetings after meeting” as employees gathered before shifts, after work and on days off to build majority support.' working-mass.com/2026/03/03/e...

Originally from @cosmonautmag.bsky.social, @worcdsa.bsky.social organizers lay out how they developed chapter electoral strategy around choosing candidates, chapter priorities, and investigating other chapters. working-mass.com/2026/03/03/p...

As Lamplighter workers approach an imminent union vote on Friday, February 27, Working Mass spoke with one worker on the organizing drive with UFCW 1445: working-mass.com/2026/02/26/i...

Thirty two years after rent control was banned in Massachusetts, housing justice advocates want to bring it back. On the campaign for rent control 🧵 working-mass.com/2026/02/17/t...

REVIEW: "If you want to be an individual or organizational long-distance runner on the labor left, there are, in this book, some very good role models to follow." working-mass.com/2026/02/10/f...

Review of DEFIANCE: "As she notices Kurdish shoe shiners amidst the Syrian working class not visible within segregated urban enclaves, the mass action all around her against brutal repression inspires her to imagine new creativities to contribute to the new world." working-mass.com/2026/02/04/l...

GOLIATH: "Set at a shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts where Brandow worked for 9 years, he uses his experiences as a welder and a union officer to give Goliath an authenticity that is too often lacking in fictional depictions of labor." working-mass.com/2026/01/31/s...

This is what it looks like when people accept that no one is coming—and decide to stay anyway. working-mass.com/2026/01/28/i...

READ: Boston labor issued a warning to ICE: if we can organize this in a few days with solidarity alone, imagine what happens when you come to Massachusetts? working-mass.com/2026/01/26/b...

Communities in Minnesota & across the U.S. are mobilizing for coordinated economic blackouts as part of a “Day of Truth and Freedom”. This national moment of solidarity calls for courageous, nonviolent, lawful action against ICE’s violence. Here's 1 way to show up: actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-t...

WAY BACK FROM 1934 - "Today the whole country looks to Minneapolis. Great things are happening there which reflect the influence of a strange new force in the labor movement, an influence widening and extending like a spiral wave..." working-mass.com/2026/01/23/l...

In Issue 7: The Ballot and the Ballot, organizers debate electoral strategy, from cadre candidates to victory infrastructures, around clocked-in shifts and picket lines of the Red Cup Rebellion. working-mass.com/2026/01/21/a...

A journey-level carpenter and 5-year member of the union told Working Mass that union carpenters weren’t being “prioritized” by City Hall , despite their best efforts to support ostensibly pro-labor candidates. working-mass.com/2026/01/20/b...

"The perspective of socialists today is not so different to that of early Russian revolutionaries... believing that socialist revolution would be won by the people themselves, they sought to embed themselves among the ‘rank and file’ of the Russian population." working-mass.com/2026/01/19/r...

We've been saying it for years: Martin Luther King Jr. was a democratic socialist. www.dsausa.org/blog/saving-...

"Trump’s regime would rather dump hundreds of billions of dollars into paying for war in other nations and tens of billions into expanding ICE operations, instead of helping working class people afford their rent, their groceries, or their utilities." working-mass.com/2026/01/16/j...

OPINION: "The point is to work in BIPOC communities, to build trust through praxis, to prove that DSA is an organization that will stand up for the right of self-determination for all oppressed nations." working-mass.com/2026/01/04/o...

The US military Southern Command had violated the most basic principles of state sovereignty. Less than twelve hours later, outraged protests erupted in every major city across the United States - including on the Boston Common. working-mass.com/2026/01/04/b...

Before Christmas, the @ueunion.org officers released a statement: "War with Venezuela would be a disaster for the working people of both countries, and we as a labor movement must do our part to prevent it." working-mass.com/2025/12/27/n...

Carlos, chef and organizer of @sbworkersunited.org solidarity kitchens: "When a crisis arrives, kitchens appear. They appear because eating every day is a fundamental human need, and because the ability to feed each other is one of the oldest acts of resistance." working-mass.com/2025/12/18/t...

We're excited to drop three op-eds on 2026 electoral strategy from members of different tendencies of @bostondsa.org. These take up wins and losses, what should be prioritized, the meaning of cadre, and what kinds of new members are brought into organization through elections.🧵

To sustain the four-day strike shutting down every store in Boston except one, @bbiunion.bsky.social organizers raised roughly $18,000 in community donations—enough to ensure that every striking barista received their full wages for the duration of the walkout. working-mass.com/2025/12/16/b...

As @sbworkersunited.org continues to strike across the country, @bostondsa.org organized a 5k run to amplify the strike with a unionized shop midpoint and start and endpoints on the picket line. working-mass.com/2025/12/09/s...

Allston Community Seethes and Rallies After ICE Abduction of 9 Allston Car Wash Workers “This abduction in my neighborhood, in our neighborhood, is personal. How dare a member of BU – my school – participate in this act of terror?” Read: working-mass.com/2025/11/21/a...

THREE PIECES ON THE GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA 🧵 Today, we are publishing a series on the flotilla, from a local feature on the Stumo Brothers who participated, to republished interviews with key organizers of the Italian general strike mobilizations -

Boston federal workers, members of Congress & allies rally to protect SNAP & defend Ellen Mei. Mei is being targeted for termination for speaking up while the Trump administration deliberately attacks working families & the people who serve them. Sign our pledge: actionnetwork.org/forms/pledge...

INTERVIEWS WITH @uaw.org WPI-RAU ON STRIKE - "I really can’t imagine why they would want to do a restructuring of our roles that they know could harm residents unless it would be for financial gain." working-mass.com/2025/11/08/w...

@sbworkersunited.org ON STRIKE - A SBWU supermajority has authorized an Unfair Labor Practices (ULP) strike on the company. If Starbucks does not finalize contracts, thousands of workers will strike nationwide on Thursday, Nov 13. working-mass.com/2025/11/07/s...

we’re seeing rapid deterioration of our media landscape because of corporate/right-wing consolidation. now more than ever, the working class needs to produce its own news. i’m grateful to have @dsaworkingmass.bsky.social and DemLeft ( @demsocialists.bsky.social), among many others

"During a supposed hiring freeze, new management positions have been created, existing managers have received promotions, and clinical staff have received above market rate adjustments. Meanwhile, we are told no funding is available for essential patient programs." working-mass.com/2025/11/01/h...

I was there! Shewstone Publishing attended the rally as a #Kickstarter creator in support of the union. The workers are in high spirits. Sibling unions showed up in person to support. Boston is UNION STRONG!

@kickstarterunited.org rallied on Thursday outside the offices of Littler Mendelson, America’s largest union-busting firm. They launched their fourth week on strike defending a 4-day, 32-hour workweek and fighting to raise the wages for the lowest-paid workers. working-mass.com/2025/10/25/k...

UAW 2320 legal workers elected the NOLSW Forward slate, including seven DSA members, by acclamation to lead the union in its transformation into a militant organization capable of challenging capitalism, imperialism, and state repression. working-mass.com/2025/10/22/o...

Federal workers testified today in front of House Democratic Steering & Policy Committee, asking them to hold the line & protect critical public services. We need a budget that works for the people, not billionaires. Read our statement: www.federalunionists.net/press/statem... #WeTookAnOath

"This is a victory for every single one of us... we mounted a pressure that could not be ignored." MIT refused Trump. Rather than the act of one individual university president, grad workers and other organizers applied pressure to make it happen. working-mass.com/2025/10/17/m...

Worcester medical residents fight for reinstated contributions to workers’ medical plan, a meaningful increase in pay that reflects the rapidly climbing cost of living in Worcester, and a housing stipend. UMass has been refusing for 5 months. working-mass.com/2025/10/08/w...

BREAKING: Organizers defeat an attempt to challenge a ballot initiative to divest Somerville investments from genocide that has earned more than 11,000 signatures from residents. Somerville voters will vote on city divestment in November. working-mass.com/2025/10/07/s...

On Wednesday, Sept 17, Davis Square workers voted to join Starbucks Workers United. One week later, on Thursday the 25th, Starbucks announced the imminent closure of hundreds of stores nationwide. By the 27th, the store had permanently closed. working-mass.com/2025/10/03/s...

Worker reflections on BU ResLife's 2024 double strike, targeting strategic moments of the calendar through mass participation, cross-neighborhood stewards, and coworker conversations as BUGWU's strike raged on campus. Originally from @long-haul-mag.bsky.social working-mass.com/2025/10/02/o...

"While the idea of the platform and slate began with the Richmond Progressive Alliance model, we have greatly expanded it over the past six years. Each election cycle, we conduct extensive community outreach [to draft] the Medford People’s Platform (MPP)." working-mass.com/2025/09/18/s...

Taxpayers Call for No Israeli AI in MA Healthcare: "Sheba ARC is poised upon its 2026 launch to alter the management of both patients and workers, making both more heavily integrated and reliant on AI technology from the State of Israel." Breaking now: working-mass.com/2025/09/09/s...

"Behind [Zohran's campaign was also] a piece of infrastructure that translated viral attention into material turnout: Solidarity Tech, a CRM designed by organizers for organizers and rooted in the organizing methods of the labor movement." Read now: working-mass.com/2025/09/08/d...

Labor Day 2025 hummed with energy across Greater Boston, from the 41st Bread and Roses Festival on the hallowed ground of Lawrence to Boston's historic first Labor Day Parade: "Workers Over Billionaires" working-mass.com/2025/09/04/l...