The Harsh Logic of Palestinian Dispossession
Israel’s illegal settlement construction has devastated Palestinians for years. But Israel is now going a step further: requiring Palestinians to destroy their homes themselves, or face prison time.
19673 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 Revolt Against Orbán
Hungary has been gripped by mass protests against Viktor Orbán’s ‘slave law’ on overtime. It’s the biggest challenge yet to the far-right government.
Building Socialism From Below
Figuring out how to fight for state power and popular power at the same time is tough. The work of Nicos Poulantzas shows how socialists in the twenty-first century can do it.
Selahattin Demirtaş Is Not a Terrorist
The former co-chair of Turkey’s leading leftist party has been imprisoned for more than two years. His incarceration is an attack on democratic rights — and a boon to right-wing tyrants everywhere.
Highlighted in Yellow
Women’s prominent role in the gilets jaunes movement should be no surprise. Struggles against the high cost of living have long made it possible for women to highlight and politicize the particular burdens we face.
Like Voting Rights? Thank a Socialist
The ruling class never wanted to give workers the right to vote. But early socialists fought them tooth and nail to expand the franchise.
Second-Wave Feminism’s Unfinished Business
Women are forced to take on both wage and social reproductive labor, then made to negotiate this contradiction individually. Second-wave feminism tried to change that.
The World Paul Volcker Made
In the early 1980s, Fed chairman Paul Volcker launched the decisive battle of the twentieth century’s class war. We’ve been living in his world ever since.
New York’s Last Socialist Congressperson
Before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, there was Vito Marcantonio: East Harlem’s socialist congressperson, who fought for justice for Puerto Rico, sweeping civil rights, and a more radical New Deal.
The Anti-Union Justin Trudeau
Trudeau is making an illegal push to end a major series of strikes. But unions can’t count on the courts to save them — only direct action can get the goods.
Blue-State Revolt
It’s official: Los Angeles teachers just announced they are going to strike on January 10. They’re challenging not just public education privatizers, but the Democratic Party establishment.
Sent Packing
Pregnancy discrimination and work-induced miscarriages are rife at freight giants like XPO Logistics. The only solution is worker power from below.
Breaking Out of the Margins
The yellow vests protests aren’t just a clash between Paris and France’s left-behind provinces. Emmanuel Macron’s fuel tax lit the fuse of a far wider sense of inequality.
Mexico Can Do Better For Migrants
Thirty years ago, Mexico provided shelter for 40,000 Central American migrants fleeing US-sponsored terror. Today it’s leaving the few thousand at its border in squalor. Another way is possible.
Can We Just Have Medicare for All Already?
A federal judge’s ruling against Obamacare shows yet again that the only solution is Medicare for All.
How to Make a Last-Minute Socialist Stocking Stuffer
Don’t have gifts for your loved ones? Have $5? We can help.
ICE’s Vendetta Against Migrant Organizers
ICE is increasingly targeting migrant labor leaders for arrest and deportation. Their intent is to spread terror and discourage organization.
Pamela Anderson on Europe’s Turmoil
Pamela Anderson spoke to Jacobin and philosopher Srećko Horvat about the protests in France, the crisis in the European Union, and her own activism.
Liberalism in Theory and Practice
Contemporary liberals are temperamentally conservative — and what they want to conserve is a morally bankrupt political order.
Capital Versus Peace in Mexico
The violence in Mexico isn’t just fueled by megalomaniac drug lords as depicted in shows like Narcos. Transnational capital is also responsible for the bloodshed.