Around the country, tens of thousands of the workers who build, tear down and rebuild our cities were out in the streets on 27 August. For a few hours, the workers who make our cities brought them to a halt.
The battlelines on campuses have been drawn. On one side is the enormous institutional support for the military-industrial complex and the highly militarised state of Israel. On the other side is a movement of students and staff desperate to show solidarity with the people of Palestine.
Judged from the vantage of macroeconomic indicators, the US economy is, as an economist quoted in the Wall Street Journal put it, “the envy of the world”. But when looking hard at the reality of life and work in the US, all of the economic glitter isn’t gold.
