The most fundamental tragedy of the coronavirus crisis is human. It is lives being lost. Somewhere close behind is the feeling of desperation shared by working people. In an economy where it is ...

The Economic Democracy Project at Demos envisions liberation for Black and brown people. This requires us to address inequities in economic, political, and institutional power. The concept of economic ...

Our new Economic Democracy agenda is about building economic power and liberation for Black and brown people in the United States. In college, I chose to major in economics after taking my first ...

President Harry Truman signs a bill authorizing loan program to expand rural telephone facilities on October 28, 1949 while Clark McWorter, President of the National Rural Electric Cooperative ...

Can syndicalism and the vision of economic democracy rally popular movements again? In this article, Rasmus Hästbacka of the SAC makes a historical retrospective in order to find ways forward. Is ...

1979 revised edition of Community Economic Workshops “arose out of the League for Economic Democracy discussions on how citizens and workers can immediately participate in a rapid and conscious ...

HOUSTON, TEXAS—How will global society solve poverty, deepen democracy, and raise the trillions of dollars needed over coming decades to address climate change, infrastructure repair, education, and ...

As economists and policymakers are seeking to explain the “Great Resignation” sweeping the labor market, the traditional wage and hour issues became less important to employees than in the recent past ...

As someone who has been a union member since I was a Marine with the American Servicemen's Union until I retired last year as a Teamster as well as a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, I ...

The U.S. doesn’t have a problem of economic scarcity. The problem is unequal power. On Tuesday night, the Democrats scored electoral victories by taking advantage of the energy behind the growing ...

In 2020, leaders from across the business sector defended the electoral process against unprecedented threats, condemning the violence on Capitol Hill, and calling for a peaceful transfer of power.

On August 28th, 1963, a seismic shift reverberated through the fight for social, racial, and economic justice in the United States. Thousands of Americans from diverse backgrounds converged on the ...