Adrien Beauduin is currently researching a PhD on Polish and Czech politics at the Central European University’s department of gender studies.
Frankly, the memoir of Scotland’s former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, presents itself as a brave, plain-speaking account of her career. But this uninspiring book inadvertently reveals the blandness and conformism of Sturgeon’s political outlook.
Donald Trump’s takeover of Washington’s police force this week is adding insult to the injury of the United States’ long denial of equal political standing to the capital’s residents.
Fulgencio Batista’s Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities had a blood-spattered record of torture and political killings before the 1959 revolution. Declassified files show how the CIA nurtured the bureau and its repressive techniques.
Across the country, democratic socialists are continuing to build their presence in municipal government. Kelsea Bond is hoping to become the first socialist on Atlanta’s city council.
The Trump administration moved ahead last week with its plans to void the collective bargaining agreements covering hundreds of thousands of federal workers. The labor movement appears largely quiescent in the face of this historic union busting.
New York City can’t fund many of the robust social programs that Zohran Mamdani has promised in his mayoral run without taxing the rich. And that taxation has to be done at the state level — against a governor who has so far refused to entertain it.
Though small-boat crossings account for a tiny and shrinking share of UK immigration, the Labour Party has made them a central issue, all the while ignoring deeper crises like the slow erosion of the country’s National Health Service.
It is a mistake to think that Benjamin Netanyahu is solely responsible for Israel’s genocide or that removing him would bring it to an end. To win support for war, he has mobilized large swathes of Israeli society, from liberals to the far right.
We should be slashing emissions and climate-proofing our cities. Instead, Republicans are turning up the carbon spew and stripping away heat protections — effectively condemning the poor to die under rising temperatures.
Donald Trump dismissed five of the seven members of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board last week. The move is part of a hostile takeover of the territory made possible by its corrupt neoliberal elite.
Zach Cregger’s Weapons is high-concept horror about the disappearance of a classroom of schoolkids. Once again, an innovative horror film has turned our age of anxiety into box office gold.
The US Steel plant where two workers were killed and ten injured in an explosion on Monday had a history of chemical accidents. It was one of hundreds of chemical facilities whose risks were hidden from the public after lobbying by the chemical industry.
Business schools claim they’re training noble civic leaders, not money-grubbing managers. But beneath the ethics classes and talk of social responsibility, they’re still just finishing schools for capitalism’s managerial aristocracy.
On Saturday, September 13, join us for a one-day conference in New York City marking 15 years of Jacobin magazine.
As regulators crack down on noncompete agreements that bar workers from finding better jobs, employees across the country are increasingly bound by a new form of “stay-or-pay” contract that indebts them to their bosses.
Thailand and Cambodia shocked observers by going to war last month. The destructive border conflict doesn’t stem from an upsurge of popular nationalism: the political elites in both countries needed a distraction to shore up their flagging legitimacy.
The new film The President’s Cake is both entertaining and compelling, but only if you know little about Iraq.
For years, democratic socialists in San Francisco have been passing Zohran Mamdani–style policies in the city legislature and through ballot measures, only to see them blocked by Silicon Valley billionaires and powerful real estate interests.
The Trump administration has imposed a tariff of 39 percent on Swiss goods — drastically higher than the rates for the EU or the UK. The goal is to transform a rival of the US into a tame economic dependent.
Narendra Modi’s government is aggressively hostile to the communist-led left-wing alliance that holds power in Kerala because it has a remarkable track record of improving living standards for its people, unlike Modi and his Hindutva cronies.