One of the Confederacy’s most celebrated generals, James Longstreet became an apostate for supporting black civil rights during Reconstruction. His about-face reveals the long history of dissenters to the “Lost Cause” South.
A new report details how Islamophobia fuels conflations of criticism of Israel with antisemitism. We spoke with one of the report’s authors about the slanderous attempts to muzzle supporters of Palestinian rights.
Last week saw the death of Jacques Delors, a leading architect of the European Union at the turn of the 1990s. Delors promised the EU would be a “social Europe” — a dream fatally undermined by the budget-cutting dogmas on which it was built.
As Israel wages war on the Palestinian people, Western media outlets have not delivered the sharp analysis that the situation demands. We badly need the kind of critical reporting that WikiLeaks supplied on the crimes of the “war on terror.”
From logistics to Hollywood to higher ed to auto, 2023 saw a promising upsurge in US labor militancy. Unions must seize this historic opening to reverse decades of decline.
Pro-Palestine activists have been working to disrupt arms manufacturers and other companies enabling Israel’s assault on Gaza. Plenty of those suppliers are also raking in profits selling to US law enforcement and private consumers.
Addicted to territorial aggrandizement and encircled by enemies of its own making, Israel has freed itself of all moral constraints.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the Georgian health care system became a testing ground for shock-therapy privatizations. The result: soaring morbidity, the return of long-suppressed diseases, and the sidelining of preventive care.
Colombia’s left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, has put environmental justice at the center of his agenda, pairing it with the fight against poverty and inequality.
Last month India’s supreme court ruled in favor of Narendra Modi’s government’s efforts to suppress Kashmiri sovereignty. The ruling is the culmination of a decades-long process led by Hindu nationalists to assert control over the region.
As we begin a new year, the horrors in Gaza continue, prosecuted and sustained with a flagrant combination of US weapons and European blessings. History will not look kindly on those who keep running cover for Israel’s war crimes.
Years of efforts by crypto interests — most prominently, Sam Bankman-Fried — to deregulate the industry have finally paid off. Last month regulators at a small federal agency allowed a cryptocurrency firm to vertically integrate, endangering customer assets.
Jacobin’s limited podcast Organize the Unorganized tells the story of the CIO and the 1930s and ’40s labor upsurge with the help of historians and activists. Start listening today.
Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman has always been staunchly pro-Israel, but the events of the last few months have shined a particularly harsh light on his indifference to Palestinians.
Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film, is gorgeous, thought-provoking, and wonderfully acted. All it’s missing is some more weight behind its feminist spirit.
Democratic socialists want a society where robustly funded public institutions ensure that all families and children can flourish. Winning school board seats, as democratic socialists are doing across the country, is a good way to make that vision a reality.
Many health insurers’ online provider directories are inaccurate or out of date. With no recourse for the negligence of insurance companies, providers and patients alike are suffering the consequences.
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s fiery statements condemning Israel may seem bold, but Turkey’s trade relations with Israel tell a different story. In the end, Erdoğan’s bluster is a cynical attempt to shore up eroding support among his base.
Theatrical in their performances and Marxist in their politics, Floh de Cologne were one of the most remarkable bands to come out of West Germany’s Krautrock scene. The band tells Jacobin about their time as Europe’s only communist prog-rockers.
The Invention of Marxism is a rich group biography of the founding generation of socialists, who introduced millions to Karl Marx’s ideas. Even where it falls short, its details still charm and provoke interest.