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.
New French prime minister Michel Barnier wants to cut the budget deficit, but the president and his allies are resisting all talk of tax increases. They’re dead set on spending cuts — and to pass them, they’ll likely need the far right’s support.
Congress once passed major environmental regulation every single year, only to hardly pass any over the last 25. With the EPA recently hobbled by the Supreme Court, the only way to reverse climate change is to reverse the rot in Congress.
How bad could a second Donald Trump term get? That depends on how serious he is about replacing the career bureaucrats who staff the security state with MAGA loyalists ready to carry out his most demented policies.
After months of tense negotiations, Canadian rail companies enlisted the government to block a strike, shutting down railworkers’ fight for safer conditions and better hours. The federal intervention sets a troubling precedent for future union talks.
In producing the first translation of Karl Marx’s Capital in 50 years, Paul Reitter took inspiration from an unusual source: the Austrian satirist Karl Kraus, who believed that true translation is focused on the poetic rhythms of speech.
Ten years ago today, the Ansar Allah movement, known as the Houthis, took power in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a. The group’s response to the Israeli attack on Gaza over the last 12 months has brought it global attention while peace talks in Yemen stall.
A Freedom Flotilla carrying 5,000 tons of aid for Gaza has been held up in a Turkish port for nearly six months. Turkey’s government claims to support the Palestinians — but it’s bowed to Western pressure rather than let vital help reach besieged Gazans.
In a troubling blow to public access, a US appeals court sided with big publishers, erasing half a million books from the Internet Archive’s lending library. This case isn’t just about books; it’s also about who controls the digital commons.
Republicans are doubling down on mendacious, racist insanity over Haitians in Springfield, Ohio. But the incident is also a window into how many top Democrats have all but abandoned immigrant rights.
Two things are happening in New York City at once: the Eric Adams administration is mired in police and corruption scandals, and New Yorkers are suffering greatly under austerity. It’s a perfect opportunity for a mayoral challenger from the Left.
Visiting Rome this week, Keir Starmer might have been expected to signal political differences with Giorgia Meloni. Instead he endorsed her approach to repressing migration, showing how much liberals have swallowed the far right’s agenda.
Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party has followed rather than resisted Germany’s shift to the right. But its perceived antiestablishment stance has likely carved it out a niche — especially on foreign policy.
Thanks to a corporate challenge to the National Labor Relations Board’s constitutionality, labor protections for tens of millions of workers have effectively been repealed until the Supreme Court can weigh in on the meaning of two words in the Constitution.
The rigging of pagers and other electronics that has wounded over 3,000 people in Lebanon is neither “precise” nor “sophisticated.” It is barbaric — and it is terrorism.
Palestinian human rights lawyer Munir Nuseibah explains what this summer’s International Court of Justice ruling against Israel over its occupation of Palestine means for the future of Palestinians.
To the surprise of many labor activists and leftists, Joe Biden’s National Labor Relations Board has boosted bottom-up unionism since 2020 — a fact that has key strategic implications for union revitalization efforts.
Before Kamala Harris became vice president, she had a clear message about dark money groups: they play a dangerously influential role in our political system. Now her campaign is reaping the rewards of massive donations from these very sources.
Instead of allowing the Right to dominate discussions of patriotism, socialists should emulate past successful left projects that wed national belonging to an inclusive, progressive politics.
The Teamsters’ refusal to endorse Kamala Harris underlines the need for the labor movement to develop a coherent political appeal to win its members over, on terms that are relevant to the vast majority of the working class.
The term “cultural Marxism” has become a touchstone for far-right conspiracy theorists. Raymond Williams showed us what Marxist cultural analysis should really involve in a series of brilliant works.