Steve Early served as an International Representative and organizer for the Communications Workers of America for 27 years before writing five books about labor and politics. Among them are Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City (Beacon Press, 2017) and Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs, co-authored by Suzanne Gordon and Jasper Craven (Duke University Press, 2022). He is a member of the Richmond Progressive Alliance and can be reached at [email protected].