Working Mass: Reporting from the Frontline
Since launching digitally in 2020, Working Mass has covered the regional labor beat as an independent news outlet based in Massachusetts. We report on working-class life, culture, and politics, with a particular focus on unions and struggle from below. Our work centers the issues working people face every day — on the job, in their communities, and in political life. Unlike corporate media, we don’t answer to institutional funders. We serve only the rank-and-file and working people.
We offer more than news consumption. Our reporting stays grounded in real movement, not abstract debate. We aim to help readers become active participants in working-class politics: the point of understanding the world, after all, is “to change it.”
Through Working Mass, readers can connect with organizing in their communities and become agents of their own struggles.
Our Editorial Independence
Working Mass operates as an independent media project with its own editorial judgment.
Some members of the Editorial Board are appointed in Boston, Worcester, and Cape Cod by their local Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chapters, while others are confirmed at-large. The Board maintains its independence as a multi-tendency collective and editorial body of union activists that includes rank-and-file organizers, industrial salts, photographers, videographers, and labor journalists. Authors are union members, members of DSA, and guest contributors who work with editors rooted in struggle to tell their stories.
Working Mass is funded by readers. Paid print subscriptions make this project possible.
Since we reject corporate funding, reader support is essential. As a result, subscriptions are not just a perk — they are the backbone of our model. If our reporting informs your organizing, sharpens your analysis, or keeps you connected to real struggles on the ground, becoming a subscriber is one of the most meaningful ways to support this work.
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Get in Touch: DSAWorkingMass@gmail.com
