Artists Can Build Power as Workers
Art workers are organizing in response to miserable pay and working conditions. The history of artist unions in the United States can help them chart a path forward.
19616 Articles by: Abigail Torre
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.
The Military Feeds on the Student Debt Crisis With False Promises to Recruits
The military uses the student debt crisis to steer young adults toward enlistment. After serving, many find the guarantee of free college is shakier than promised. Student debt forgiveness can keep recruiters at bay and help veterans move on with their lives.
Viktor Orbán’s New “Pro-Refugee” Stance Is Opportunistic — and Still Racist
Ahead of today’s Hungarian election, Viktor Orbán has boasted of his solidarity with Ukrainian refugees. The anti-immigrant premier has folded to public sympathy for Ukrainians — but the welcome doesn’t extend to everyone fleeing war.
Here’s How We Beat Amazon
Amazon workers in Staten Island have achieved the most important labor victory in the United States since the 1930s. Here’s an inside account of how they did it.
Justin Trudeau’s F-35 Fighter Jet Acquisition Is a Miserable Circus
Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have chosen a worst-of-all-worlds approach to Canada’s fighter jet procurement process. Their decisions have wasted time and money, taken for granted the need for defense spending, and resulted in campaign promise reversals.
A Major Strike Is on the Horizon at Grocery Stores Across Southern California
Nearly 50,000 grocery workers across Southern California have authorized a strike. Should they walk out, it would be the largest work stoppage since the pre-pandemic teachers’ strike wave.
LSD Capitalism Promises a Bad Trip for Us All
Silicon Valley figures like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are getting excited about the growing market in psychedelics. Their rising quasi-medical use provides profit opportunities for a few — but it’ll be a bad trip for the rest of us.
Russia’s Oligarchs Are Stashing Their Wealth Abroad — Just Like America’s
The techniques Russian billionaires use to avoid taxes and hide their wealth are the same ones American billionaires use. In fact, they often execute them with the help of the same Western companies.
Why the Three Internationals Couldn’t Agree
On April 2, 1922, reformists and revolutionaries from three rival internationals met in Berlin in a bid to agree to a common program. Ending in failure, it was the last time for decades that Communists and Social Democrats would meet as ostensible comrades.
Joe Biden Is Still Fighting Student Loan Debtors Who Declare Bankruptcy
Joe Biden has been betraying his campaign promise to allow borrowers to discharge their student debts through bankruptcy. In a new letter, 27 Democratic senators are demanding the administration stop trying to overturn court rulings that help student debtors.
New York’s Left Looks to the Post-Cuomo Era
The Left faces a tough road in any challenge to New York governor Kathy Hochul, who is now in position to win the primary in this year’s gubernatorial race. But the lieutenant governor’s race holds promise for the state’s progressives.
A Stunning New Chapter Begins for Amazon Warehouse Workers
In a staggering upset, Staten Island Amazon workers just won a union election. And the rerun election at the company’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse is too close to call. It’s the start of a new chapter for workers at one of the world’s most powerful companies.
The Kids Are Alright. BlackRock’s President Isn’t.
BlackRock president Rob Kapito has a lot of nerve calling young Americans entitled brats. In reality, millennials and Zoomers are struggling to find a foothold in a harsh economic climate that BlackRock executives themselves helped create.
No, the War Isn’t an Excuse to Treat Russians as an “Enemy People”
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has opened the floodgates for an outpouring of nationalist hysteria and hatred against a supposed enemy Russian people. Even in countries far from the front line, the war is driving an ugly dehumanization.
The French Left Must Rally Behind Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Ten days before the first round of France’s presidential election, Jean-Luc Mélenchon is steadily rising in polls. But divides on the French left risk letting the anti-immigrant Marine Le Pen beat him to the runoff.
Keir Starmer Never Had Any Plans to Make Peace With the Left
Keir Starmer’s latest round of attacks on the Left should come as no surprise. He has made his career as a lackey for American imperialism and an opponent of socialists, inside and outside of the Labour Party.
A New Generation of Radicals Is Rediscovering Alexandra Kollontai
The Bolshevik diplomat and Marxist feminist thinker Alexandra Kollontai, whose pioneering writings explored the prospects for women’s emancipation under socialism, was born 150 years ago today.
The German Ideology Is the High Point of Karl Marx’s Philosophical Thought
The German Ideology marked an essential turning point in Marx and Engels’s intellectual development. A major achievement in the tradition of idealist philosophy, it allowed them to get beyond philosophical systems and engage with the world to transform it.
All Biden’s Supporters Can Find to Brag About Is an Expired Tax Credit
A super PAC supporting Joe Biden praises him for delivering a big tax break to working-class Americans through the expanded child tax credit — but the White House let that tax credit expire last year.
How Amazon Beat the Union in Alberta
Last year, the Teamsters attempted and failed to unionize Amazon in Alberta, Canada. A reporter working for Jacobin and Ricochet went undercover at an Amazon warehouse for almost five months and witnessed firsthand the challenges put to the Teamsters’ union drive.