All of a Sudden, Housing Is on the Agenda
Despite years of a deep crisis across the United States, affordable housing has never been a major issue on the national agenda. That’s changing.
19064 Articles by: Adrien Beauduin
Adrien Beauduin is currently researching a PhD on Polish and Czech politics at the Central European University’s department of gender studies.
The Junior Partner of Tory Austerity
The Lib Dems want the UK election to be solely about Brexit, because they don’t want you to remember that their record in government was one of deadly austerity and heightened inequality.
Momentum Activists Are Trying to Make Jeremy Corbyn Prime Minister
The grassroots group Momentum was an instrumental campaigning force for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party during the 2017 election. Now the group is bigger and stronger, and preparing for victory next month.
Metro DC Bus Drivers Are Striking Against Privatization
Workers at the privatized Cinder Bed Road bus garage near Washington, DC are on strike as part of a broader labor upsurge in the nation’s capital. They’re fighting for better wages and benefits for themselves — and for better public services for all of us.
Why Are Pundits Fawning Over Elizabeth Warren’s Medicare-for-All Financing Proposal?
Somehow, the least progressive Medicare-for-All funding proposal I have ever seen is being championed by many in the media as our best and only choice.
The Politics of Destabilizing AMLO
In attacking President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration over a recent botched raid on the Sinaloa Cartel, the Mexican right is cynically using a crisis of its own making in an attempt to destabilize AMLO, taking Mexico’s people as hostages.
Why Does “Busytown” Love Bernie?
Kids love Richard Scarry’s Busytown books because they put the workers they recognize from daily life at the core of the story. And those same workers are donating in droves to Bernie Sanders.
Why the Corporate Media Won’t Call It a Coup
The corporate media stands united in opposition against leftists in Latin America. That’s why it refuses to state the obvious: Bolivian president Evo Morales was deposed over the weekend in a violent coup.
The Lib Dems Couldn’t Be More Cynical
Just like Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party, Jo Swinson and the Lib Dems don’t want to solve the Brexit crisis. They want an endless cycle of grievance and polarization to try to stay relevant.
A Few Tips on How to Understand Latin American Coups
From ousting of Árbenz to Allende and now Morales, Latin America has seen a lot of right-wing coups. Here’s historian Greg Grandin with some tips on how to understand what you’re seeing in Bolivia today.
¡Compañero Víctor Jara Presente!
Chile’s massive, ongoing uprising is drawing its anthems from the songs and artists of the Allende years — particularly Víctor Jara, the legendary folk singer and martyr killed in the 1973 coup.
I’m Not Running for Myself, I’m Running for My Class
I’m running as the Labour candidate in Warrington North, because I want to undo the damage done by Tory austerity and win a government that fights for working people.
Why Did the UAW Agree to Let Ford Expand Its Surveillance Technology for Assembly Workers?
In their new contract with automaker Ford, the United Auto Workers agreed to new surveillance measures that could be used to exert greater management control over workers, drilling them on how they spend every second. No union should let the boss play Big Brother this way.
Elizabeth Warren’s Head Tax Is Indefensible
Elizabeth Warren’s proposed head tax to finance Medicare for All is regressive and far inferior to alternative income- and payroll-tax funding proposals.
Trust Labour, Not the Lib Dems, on Brexit
Since 2016, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has consistently defended workers’ interests amid Brexit chaos. All the while, the Lib Dems have just blamed them and exploited the crisis for political gain.
The Nigerian Activist Whose Death Shamed Shell
Twenty-four years ago today, environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian state. His death brought international attention to the rapacious behavior of oil companies like Shell — and their complicity in the most violent forms of repression.
No Imitations and No Limitations
Phillip Agnew talks to us about the Movement for Black Lives, the erasure of Bernie Sanders’s diverse support base, and the need for a North Star beyond capitalism.
In Spain, Franco Still Lives
The exhumation of Francisco Franco was meant to help Spain get over four decades of fascist dictatorship. But as the country heads to general elections today, nationalist tensions are soaring — and the Franco-nostalgic Vox party is set to be the big winner.
Barcelona Shows How the Left Can Win
Spain goes to the polls today after a general election campaign electrified by the jailing of Catalan leaders. But Podemos’s regional alliance is resisting the rival nationalisms — and showing what the Left can achieve in office.
Lula Comes Home
Lula’s release will not change the course of Brazilian politics by itself. But the leftist leader has already said his time in prison further radicalized him — and that can only bode well for the popular movement resisting Bolsonaro’s reactionary politics.