Housing Activists Vow to Continue Campaign After Ban of Rent Control Ballot Initiative
Source: The Keep Massachusetts Home Campaign The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today issued a decision...
economic justice
Could Massachusetts Get Rent Control Back After a 32-Year Ban?
by Steve Dubb The following article appeared originally in Shelterforce on June 5, 2026 and...
SJC Kills Ballot Initiative to Cut State Income Tax
Opponents say the tech CEO-backed measure would have gutted the state’s budget and drained money...
One Hundred Days of Mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York: Free Kindergarten and a Tax on Luxury Homes
A Better World is Possible by Julius Schiedat Since the beginning of 2026, Zohran Mamdani...
How Massachusetts Teachers Transformed Their Union: An Interview with Amherst’s Max Page
by Chris Brooks The following interview appeared originally in Jacobin on May 1, 2026. It...
Western Mass Mobilizes for May Day Economic Blackout
No School, No Work, No Shopping Hundreds of labor unions, democratic organizations, and community groups...
Opinion: Join Me in the Streets This May Day
by Sulma Arias This year, the organizers of May Day Strong are calling for everyone...
Letter: Amherst’s DPW Workers Have Our Backs, It’s Time We Had Theirs
by Julian Hynes, Marisol Bonifaz, Amrita Rutter, Alex Franz, Mia Cielak, Maria Kopicki, Brooks Ballenger,...
After More Than 18 Months Without a Contract, PSU and UMass Reach a Tentative Agreement
Late in the evening on Thursday, February 12, the Professional Staff Union (PSU) bargaining team...
Hundreds of UMass Employees Picket Boston and Amherst Campuses to Demand Fair Wages
Source: UMass Professional Staff Union (PSU) After 20 months of bargaining, UMass Amherst Chancellor Javier...
Opinion: The Common Share Food Co-op: Reflections on a Failure to Launch
The Common Share Food Co-op project is over. (The co-op has had several names over...
There’s a Budget Surplus at UMass. But Austerity Provides A Pretense to Cut Unfavored Programs.
A new report from UMass Amherst Associate Professor of History Kevin Young critiques UMass Amherst’s...