The Next Portuguese Revolution

On the Carnation Revolution’s fortieth anniversary, Portugal’s elites want to use its legacy to justify austerity.

Kiev’s Theme Park Revolution

The images of genuine popular self-determination in the streets of Kiev are empty ones.

The Problem with Mixed-Income Housing

Chicken Littles of the Right

If the Right wants to cry about class warfare, we should give them something to cry about.

Stalinism in Three Easy Payments

What better way to reform capitalism’s losers than to force them to pay to play?

White Collar Blues: An Interview with Nikil Saval

Even at a time of low pay and degraded working conditions, meritocratic notions surrounding white collar work are hard to dispel.

DIE LINKE’s Road to Power: An Interview with Bernd Riexinger

Bernd Riexinger, co-chair of Germany’s Left Party, talks about socialist strategy in the twenty-first century.

Only As Good As the Movement

Individual activists — no matter how talented — must depend on the movement they represent.

The Rise of the Voluntariat

Like unpaid interns, the “voluntariat” creates profits without being compensated, but out of a sense of altruism.

Invisible Sex Workers

Sex workers are somehow invisible when it comes to discerning the truth about their work. Yet clients, police, and others have no trouble finding them to pay, arrest, extort, rob, beat, or rape.

Adjusting to Apocalypse

Societies are going to adjust to climate change in some way — it’s up to us to push that transformation in a progressive direction.

Cuts and Scabs

A doctors’ strike could help save the United Kingdom’s National Health Service.

The Many Faces of the Indian Left

In India, even as prominent left parties falter, radicalism persists.

A Letter to New York City’s School Teachers

New York teachers should vote no on the proposed union contract — for love and for money.

Historical Materialism at Sixteen: An Interview with Peter D. Thomas

The longstanding Marxist conference is this weekend in Toronto.

Clarence Thomas’s Counterrevolution

Clarence Thomas has fused elements of black nationalism and a bleak view of black history with a steadfast Constitutional originalism.

A Challenge to Cuomo

“My name is Brian Jones, and I am seeking the Green Party’s nomination for Lieutenant Governor of the state of New York.”

American Philanthropy and its Discontents

Philanthropy thrills to begging and tolerates activism, but cannot abide a demand from those it wants to save.

How to Thank a Teacher

This week, thank a New York City teacher — by urging them to vote “no” on the United Federation of Teachers proposed contract.

Twenty Years of Defeat

Today, South Africans will likely reelect Jacob Zuma and his African National Congress. But the party of Nelson Mandela is losing ground.