Dossier
labor movement
Coverage of labor movement in the Nexus archive.
- ‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement
John Sayles’s 1987 film dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, illustrating how class solidarity can overcome prejudice. The film’s context includes Sayles’s 1970 hitchhiking experience in West Virginia, where miners were dealing with the aftermath of a contentious union election that led to the murder of union reform candidate Joseph Yablonski and his wife in December 1969.
- South Africa’s crises will not be solved by blaming migrants
The article argues that South Africa's crises cannot be resolved by blaming migrants, emphasizing the need for genuine socio-economic change. It highlights the labor movement as the most capable force to drive this transformation.