Micah Uetricht

My name is Micah Uetricht, and I’m the editor of Jacobin magazine. I’m the author of two books: Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity (2014) and, with Meagan Day, Bigger than Bernie: How We Go From the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism (2020), both from Verso Books. I am currently at work on a book on New Left–era radicals who “industrialized” beginning in the 1970s, obtaining jobs in industries like auto, railroads, and coal mining with the intention of organizing. I am an occasional guest host of the Jacobin podcast The Dig.

I am also editor-at large of New Labor Forum, a scholarly journal published by the City University of New York’s School of Labor and Urban Studies. I host the journal’s podcast Reinventing Solidarity.

I live in New York City.

Selected Articles

• “The Tragedy and Triumph of an Organizing Campaign,” the New Republic, August 4, 2022 — review of Daisy Pitkin’s On the Line
• “Amid the Wildfires: Mike Davis’s Forecast for the Left,” the Nation, February 22/March 1, 2021 issue — review essay on the life and work of Mike Davis
• “What Today’s Socialists Can Learn From the Heyday of American Communism,” In These Times, May 2020 issue — review of Vivian Gornick’s The Romance of American Communism
• “Socialism Butterfly,” Bookforum, February/March 2020 issue — review of Nathan Robinson’s Why You Should Be a Socialist
• “In 2000, Pete Buttigieg Wrote an Essay Praising Bernie Sanders. What, Exactly, Did He Admire?,” the Intercept, December 10, 2019 — meditations on Buttigieg’s teenage essay on Sanders
• “Joker Isn’t an Ode to the Far Right — It’s a Warning Against Austerity,” Guardian, October 11, 2019 — review of Joker
• “US Union Revitalization and the Missing ‘Militant Minority,'” Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 44, Issue 1, March 2019 — historical overview of the role of the “militant minority” in US labor history, arguing for its centrality in potential US labor revitalization, coauthored with Barry Eidlin
• “The Beginning of the End of Capitalist Realism,” Jacobin, January 30, 2019 — on the late writer Mark Fisher
• “Remember El Mozote,” Jacobin, December 12, 2016 — overview of the 1981 El Mozote massacre in El Salvador and its aftermath, coauthored with Branko Marcetic
• “Remembering Nelson Peery, Chicagoan and Dyed-in-the-Wool Communist,” Chicago Reader, November 3, 2015 — reported obituary on the death of a longtime radical activist
• “10-Year Strike at Chicago’s Congress Hotel Ends in Defeat, But Leaves a Legacy,” In These Times, May 31, 2013 — retrospective on the end of the decade-long Congress Hotel strike in Chicago

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