As ICE violently snatches Chicagoans in broad daylight and seems to be waging war on the city itself, Chicago City Council member and socialist Anthony Quezada recounts how the city is pushing back.
How Labor and the Left Can Bolster Zohran Mamdani
If Zohran Mamdani wins, he will face fierce resistance from business elites and the political establishment. Unions and grassroots member organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America can play a key role in helping him overcome this opposition.
Europe Primarily Uses the Welfare State to Fight Inequality
Some economists argue that European countries have lower inequality than the US because they distribute market income much more equally, not because of their welfare states. This is false: the welfare state beats market-income compression.
ICE’s Private Prison Contractor Is Hoping to Get Blanket Immunity
After being sued for violating state-level human trafficking laws, GEO Group, the nation’s largest private prison company, is pushing the Supreme Court to grant private government contractors like itself blanket immunity from such lawsuits.
Airlines Are Trying to Weaken a New Safety Inspection Rule
The airline industry is lobbying to weaken a new safety rule that would force airlines to address serious flaws in potentially thousands of Boeing planes. They have industry-connected allies in the Trump administration who could help them get their way.
At a Brooklyn town hall with Bernie Sanders on Saturday, Zohran Mamdani recounted how Bernie “gave me the language of democratic socialism to describe my politics” and called on supporters to keep organizing after Election Day. We reproduce his speech here.
The Making of Italy’s Pro-Palestine General Strike
When Italy’s dockworkers organized a strike in solidarity with Palestine on October 3, they showed that solidarity and internationalism are still alive in the Italian labor movement.
Why Americans Hate the Democratic Party
Most voters aren’t rejecting Democrats over the culture war. They’re rejecting them because they don’t deliver.
The Black Panthers Who Never Came Home
Fifty-nine years after Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panthers, Charlotte and Pete O’Neal remain in exile in Tanzania. Their story, told through interviews, archives, and firsthand reporting, reveals the movement’s enduring legacy.
The Left Needs to Rethink How It Handles Inequality
Redistributing income alone is unlikely to solve America’s vast inequalities. Workers need and want more power in their workplace and for the state to weaken the influence that corporations have over their lives.
Labor organizing can’t succeed at scale without a supportive legal and political environment, created by majoritarian coalitions that can win reforms, confront corporate power, and prove to skeptical workers that progressive governance delivers.
Google’s Monopoly Sentence: Barely a Slap on the Wrist
For years, across multiple presidential administrations, the US government has been pursuing aggressive lawsuits against the tech giants. The toothless sentence Google recently received for its illegal search monopoly suggests the effort is all for naught.
Channing Tatum’s Roofman Is a Bummer of a Feel-Good Movie
In Roofman, Channing Tatum plays a real-life lovable burglar and family man trying to make it in America. But while writer-director Derek Cianfrance clearly wanted a lighthearted, feel-good movie, Roofman is instead a dark exploration of American pathos.
The Pelicot Trial Exposes France’s Jury Problem
Last year’s Pelicot trial was the biggest rape case in French history, drawing huge public attention. But only an appeal last week saw the case heard before a jury, allowing ordinary citizens to pass judgement on the rapists.
Zohran Mamdani: “Our Time Is Now”
Last night at a campaign rally, Zohran Mamdani addressed his supporters: “For too long, we have tried not to lose. Now, it is time that we win.”