Capitalism is only too happy to accommodate and absorb cultural challenges that don’t alter its foundations. Without economic transformations, the gains of identity-based politics are narrow — and reversible.
When German Socialists Mobilized Against Genocide in Namibia
German imperialism was responsible for the first genocide of the 20th century in its Namibian colony. The country’s socialist movement spoke out vehemently against the atrocities, offering solidarity across the barriers of race and geography.
The No Kings Protests Are Cause for Hope
The No Kings rallies have evolved beyond basic anti-Trump liberalism. Their messaging is sharply antiwar, anti-oligarchy, and far more substantive than the “resistance” politics of Donald Trump’s first term. The Left should be proud to participate.
Muskism Is the Specter Stalking Our Present
Elon Musk sells us sovereignty through technology in an age of crisis. Muskism resembles past futurisms, but with an important difference: this time, the question of who owns the machines is paramount.
Why the Left Wins in Cities
The Left’s urban success is often credited to progressive, homogenous populations, but that’s superficial. When budgets allow, cities make redistribution and public investment far easier to deliver and their benefits further-reaching.
Under capitalism, technological “progress” like AI systematically deskills workers, deepens managerial control, and turns the labor process into a site of conflict rather than liberation. This is by design.
A Plan to Stop ICE From Stealing the Midterms
A campaign to ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement from polling places would provide a concrete, winnable demand that unions, student organizations, and immigrant and democracy defense groups could organize around today, months before the election.
The Peaky Blinders Film Ratchets Up the Gloom and Black Humor
Cillian Murphy’s final turn as Tommy Shelby in Netflix’s Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man is a brooding, gorgeous farewell to one of TV’s great antiheroes.
Avi Lewis Is the New Leader of Canada’s NDP
Avi Lewis will lead an NDP in dire straits — but also one with a strategic opening to the left of the Liberals, whose posture against Donald Trump has reshaped the political terrain.
ICE vs. High Schoolers
We spoke with high school students in Minneapolis about how they were affected by ICE’s occupation of the city.
Neoliberalism didn’t win an intellectual argument — it won power. Vivek Chibber unpacks how employers and political elites in the 1970s and ’80s turned economic turmoil into an opportunity to reshape society on their terms.
How Thoreau Challenged America to Live Up To Its Own Ideals
A new PBS documentary, Henry David Thoreau, reveals the Thoreau often softened in high school textbooks — the abolitionist, antiwar dissident, and ecological thinker whose ideas still challenge a country failing its own revolutionary ideals.
Chicago City Council Just Stabbed Tipped Workers in the Back
After a blitz by restaurant industry lobbyists, Chicago’s city council voted last week to maintain the subminimum wage for service workers, keeping them stuck in precarity and poverty wages.
Increase the Inheritance Tax
For some young workers, the aging of the American population means growing care burdens, while others anticipate a life-changing windfall. Higher taxes on the ever-growing number of inheritances could meaningfully reduce inequality.
Uber Backs Bills to Make It Harder to Sue Them for Crashes
Uber is spending tens of millions on a California ballot measure that could make it harder for riders, pedestrians, and drivers to sue for damages after car crashes. It is part of a broader liability reform campaign the company is funding across the US.