Abigail Torre grew up in Chile and now lives in Berkeley, California where she is cochair of the East Bay chapter of Democratic Socialists of America.
In recent months, Emmanuel Macron insisted on the need to slash public debt, yet now he calls for huge military spending. The call to remilitarize has become the center of the French president’s agenda — and offers a pretext for even further cuts to welfare.
Organizing Amazon workers is both an existential challenge and an opportunity for labor. But the company’s cash advantages and operational flexibility mean that traditional union tactics won’t be enough. We need strategies that combine disruption and scale.
The Kony 2012 campaign pioneered a new form of online activism — one that served empire more than the people it claimed to help.
The Arctic region is becoming a theater for competition between states over its resources and geopolitical advantages. This is having a deeply harmful impact on the indigenous peoples of the Arctic, whose way of life doesn’t fit in with state borders.
Donald Trump and his allies are claiming to restore “free speech” in America even as they yank federal funding from Columbia University to punish student protesters. They were never serious about defending free speech.
IVF patients say they’ve faced pressure to perform expensive genetic tests on their embryos as private equity firms buy up fertility clinics across the US. A new class action lawsuit alleges that the benefits of these tests were greatly exaggerated.
Donald Trump is using the idea of stopping “waste, fraud, and abuse” as an excuse for drastic austerity. The rhetorical strategy has a long history in the US — stretching back to Southern elites’ push to delegitimize Reconstruction as a cash grab.
When the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, banks charge more for loans — but often don’t pay higher rates to depositors. This scheme has allowed banks to pocket a more than $1 trillion windfall over the past two and a half years.
The Right’s newfound love of censorship proves what many suspected: its free speech absolutism was always conditional. Just ask Jacobin contributor Yves Engler, recently jailed in Canada for five days for online criticism of Israel’s supporters.
The WNBA is more popular than ever. On the back of this success, and with rival leagues threatening to outbid it by offering athletes higher pay, the WNBA’s union has decided to use its strong position to renegotiate a contract for better pay and benefits.
The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South.
By blocking aid and threatening to resume its war on Gaza, Israel has systematically undermined the cease-fire. It is now using starvation as a tool of coercion to force Palestinian capitulation and advance the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
Despite his previous rhetoric to the contrary, it’s clear that Donald Trump is trying to finally be the one to successfully carry out the long-standing GOP goal: destroying Social Security.
Military veterans are among those being hit hardest by Trump’s austerity push, which threatens many of their jobs as well as health care and other benefits. The cuts are starting to mobilize the conservative-leaning demographic against the administration.
I’m Still Here is a stirring tribute to the Brazilian people’s resistance to military dictatorship — and their unwillingness to give up their hard-won democracy.
Public unionized employment is the backbone of the black middle class. Racial justice advocates should direct resources to fighting Elon Musk’s attacks on good union jobs — not toward protecting DEI initiatives focused on black entrepreneurship.
Dozens of statements to a French court tell of decades of sexual abuse at a Catholic school. The case has also created a political crisis, with media allegations that today’s prime minister François Bayrou knew what was going on but failed to act.
For decades, European leaders fostered a willing dependence on the United States that has made the continent acutely vulnerable to the superpower’s whims. Donald Trump has sensed this weakness and is using it to advance his own narrow interests.
The federal government has spent $6.2 billion on research and development for weight-loss drugs. Now, thanks to Big Pharma markups, Americans are paying up to 11 times more for these drugs than patients in other countries, despite already footing the bill.
In interrupting Donald Trump’s speech to Congress, Rep. Al Green showed more vigor in opposing the president’s undemocratic, anti-worker agenda than any other act since Inauguration Day. Democrats should emulate Green, not censure him.