Billed as another eat-the-rich movie, Saltburn turns out to be the opposite: a film about the British middle class’s nostalgia for the aristocracy and its desperate desire to take their place.
Late in life, Karl Marx had a brief encounter with the Arab world. Though he was never able to study the region in detail, Marx’s writings confirm his support for Arab struggles against their colonial oppressors.
The California Faculty Association is calling for a weeklong strike at the largest public university system in the United States to fight against cuts and preserve a vital public good.
Layla Taha is a Lebanese American socialist running to represent the Metro Detroit area in the Michigan state house. We spoke with her about her campaign, her demand for a cease-fire in Gaza, and how she plans to stand up to corporate interests if elected.
Lenin died 100 years ago today, leaving behind a batch of writings that became known as his political testament. These widely misunderstood texts shed important light on his understanding of how difficult it would be to construct a socialist system in Russia.
For poet Langston Hughes, Lenin was a symbol who “walked around the world” even long after his death. Paul Le Blanc talks to Jacobin about how to understand his complex legacy.
Los Angeles has one of the worst housing crises in the nation. Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez thinks renters need to stand up for themselves — which is why he’s knocking doors to directly organize people who’ve received eviction notices.
A Chicago Teachers Union member explains why his union voted overwhelmingly to demand a cease-fire in Israel’s war on Gaza — and why teachers must stand up for children everywhere.
Polling of US voters shows growing sympathy for Palestinians. But this week, the Senate couldn’t even bring itself to pass a modest measure to investigate whether Israel is using US aid to violate human rights.
The film adaptation of Poor Things darkly and effectively satirizes the depredations of capitalism and its abuses of technology in Victorian England. But like its source material, its critiques have universal relevance.
A thousand contingent faculty at NYU, who have long worked without union contract protections, have struck an agreement with the university to hold union elections. We talked to faculty about the organizing drive and what they hope to get out of a contract.
In the depths of the Great Depression, maritime and waterfront workers on the Pacific Coast of the US — from Bellingham, Washington, to San Diego, California — erupted in militant strikes against their shipping magnate employers.
This electoral cycle, the Right has been talking nonstop about “the border,” painting an apocalyptic picture of an immigrant invasion threatening to plunge America into chaos. In the process, they’re revealing themselves as scapegoating pseudo-populists.
The United Auto Workers have tried and failed to organize Mercedes-Benz’s Alabama plant several times before. With their current union drive, workers have thrown out the old organizing playbook — and their worker-led strategy is showing early signs of success.
In an interview with Jacobin, economist Stephanie Kelton argues that we’re seeing a paradigm shift away from free-market dogmas and austerity.
Bulgarian authorities have begun dismantling the capital city’s main memorial to the Red Army. Celebrated as a move to bury the Communist past, the obsession with symbolic score-settling in fact reflects an inability to talk about this history seriously.
Working-class people are systematically left out of mainstream media coverage. So the stories we get are incomplete, skewed, or even complete distortions of reality.
The Arab Spring was an inspiring explosion of democratic energy that ended tragically in autocracy and violence. Understanding the protests’ ultimate failure requires concrete analysis of political and economic factors, not superficial cultural explanations.
The United States’ strikes on Yemen are threatening to spark a wider regional conflict. To prevent further violence, the US must demand an end to Israel’s criminal assault on Gaza.
Over a century ago, Friedrich Nietzsche’s thought sparked a heated debate among Danish intellectuals about society’s moral foundations. The dispute prefigured today’s debates between the Left and the far right, which continues to be inspired by Nietzsche.