Workplace Fragmentation Demands New Organizing Strategies
In recent decades, structural changes in the US economy have dispersed workers across workplaces and geographic areas. Labor’s decline can’t be reversed without addressing this new reality.
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International Dockworker Solidarity, Fictionalized
Labor has the power to halt the war machine. Dockworkers have often exercised this power, and a new novel by Herb Mills tells a tale, rooted in his own experiences, of stevedores refusing to load US weapons for the brutal El Salvador dictatorship in 1980.
Equality in Palestine Means Rectifying Past Injustice
The Left envisions a future for Palestine in which people of all religions and ethnicities enjoy equal rights. But achieving this universalistic vision requires starting from the understanding that the state of Israel is a settler-colonial enterprise.
How the West Remade the Middle East
Western media often characterizes the Middle East as a region eternally riven with sectarian conflicts. In an interview, historian Ussama Makdisi says this is wrong, starting with the fact that the region has a rich history of multiethnic coexistence.
Jonathan Soto Is a Bronx Socialist Running for State Assembly
Jonathan Soto is running to represent the Bronx in the New York State Assembly and join the growing bench of democratic socialists in Albany. Jacobin spoke to him about why he’s running and his anti-austerity, pro-tenant platform.
Gustavo Petro Wants to End the War on Drugs
Colombia’s leftist president, Gustavo Petro, has plainly declared the war on drugs a bloody failure.
Bombas and the Futility of “Mission-Based” Capitalism
When it comes to easing the burden of homelessness, free sock donations from a “mission-driven” company like Bombas have nothing on public funding and state intervention.
Your Car Is Spying on You for Insurance Companies
It turns out that the “Internet of Things” is full of automated snoops and spies. Data collection, now integrated into new car designs, is more pervasive than ever and is ushering in a brave new world of surveillance and corporate collusion.
Biden’s Sanctions on Israeli Settlers Are Just for Show
Joe Biden has announced sanctions on Israeli settlers in Palestinian territory. But the sanctions themselves are toothless — a way to signal displeasure with the Israeli government without actually doing anything to change the situation.
End Residential Occupancy Limits
Residential occupancy laws, which limit the number of unrelated people who can share a dwelling, enable unjust discrimination and drive up housing costs. A growing number of cities are looking to get rid of them.
Israel Is Still Flouting the ICJ’s Genocide Order
It’s been almost two months since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop killing Gazans and destroying their means of subsistence. But Israel continues to flout the order with impunity — aided and abetted by the Biden administration.
Fossil Fuel Cash Is Weakening Democrats’ Climate Support
In January, Joe Biden temporarily halted approvals for new liquid natural gas exports and processing terminals. Since then, fossil fuel–backed Democrats have scrambled to undo the climate win.
The NDP Has Compromised Canada’s Shot at Pharmacare
New legislation seeks to end Canada’s status as the only country with public health care that excludes medication coverage. But the NDP’s incrementalism and willingness to play ball with the Liberals may have compromised the program before it gets started.
The Iraq War Remade the World in Its Grisly Image
The 2003 invasion of Iraq has been swept to the margins of collective memory. We must refuse to forget it — and seek to understand what led to it, who benefited, who suffered, and how it transformed the world.
Workers Can Halt the War Machine
In 1974, Scottish workers refused to fix the fighter jets of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. As the West continues to supply Israel with arms, unionized workers could again refuse to stop the flow of weapons of mass murder.
Finland’s Right-Wing Government Is Trying to Crush Labor
Proposed labor reforms in Finland have sparked strikes, shutting down everything from ports to kindergartens. The right-wing government refuses to negotiate in its drive to dismantle the Finnish model of collective bargaining.
Open-Ended Strikes Can Win at Australian Universities
Last year saw a historic wave of industrial action at universities across Australia. To win decisively, university workers need to move beyond symbolic actions and toward indefinite strikes that can genuinely disrupt production.
Filmmaker Radu Jude: It’s Disgusting to Be Interested in Posterity
Ahead of the release of his new film, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Romanian film director Radu Jude spoke to Jacobin about political art, why TikTok is cinema, and the problem with making films aimed at everyone.
The 2020 Wildcat Teacher Sick-Out That Shut Down NYC Schools
Four years ago this month, educators in NYC public schools organized an illegal sick-out to shut down schools as COVID-19 was breaking out in the city. Three rank-and-file teachers reflect on lessons from the strike for educators and other workers today.
Get Capitalists’ Grubby Hands Off Our Hobbies
Christian moralists long promoted hobbies as a way to occupy idle hands, bringing the work ethic into our free time. Today hobbies risk turning into side hustles — yet they also point to what work might look like if it wasn’t about making money.