The Portuguese Myth
Portugal’s Socialist-led government looks like an exception to the decline of European social democracy. But its record in fighting austerity is less clear.
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Bargaining With the Algorithm
Though companies like Deliveroo or Foodora refuse even to recognize them as employees, food delivery riders have taken a lead in organizing workers in the gig economy.
No, It’s Not a Gig Economy
Precarity isn’t the main problem with the US labor market. It’s that wages are low, benefits are eroding, and work is often dull and sometimes dangerous.
Where Free Speech Goes to Die
The news industry isn’t a marketplace of ideas — it’s just a market. To ensure freedom of speech, we have to take on the rich.
Trump In Singapore
The scheduled US–North Korea summit is just days away. Here’s a look at where things stand.
On the Front Lines of the Populism Wars
Left populism might be working in practice — but does it work in theory? A review of Chantal Mouffe’s latest salvo in the “populism wars.”
Millennials: Unions Good, Corporations Bad
Leftists should be heartened by recent US poll data showing that 68 percent of people aged 18-29 have positive views of unions. Just 46 percent said the same of corporations.
Do Democrats Want a War With North Korea?
Just a year ago, liberals were terrified of Trump starting a war with North Korea. Now they seem scared he might defuse the standoff with Pyongyang.
The Lesser Evil
After years of corruption scandals and austerity, Spain finally ousted its conservative president Mariano Rajoy. But will the center-left PSOE do much better?
The Overworked American
We already have too much work in the United States. Why not redistribute it?
Tech Workers Versus the Pentagon
Workers at Google just scored an impressive victory against US militarism.
Pawtucket, America’s First Factory Strike
This week 194 years ago, Rhode Island textile workers waged the first factory strike in US history. It was organized by young women.
The Week That Stopped Brazil
The strike that paralyzed Brazil last week didn’t come from the Left, but from an ignored and isolated group of workers.
Connolly at 150
James Connolly was born 150 years ago today. He remains the outstanding socialist of Ireland’s history.
Indonesia’s Red Slaughter
From 1965 to 1966, the Indonesian military and its allies massacred hundreds of thousands of Communists — often with the active aid of Western, democratic governments.
The Good Old Days
Madeleine Albright’s Fascism: A Warning is full of criticism of Trump — but it’s silent on the swamp from which he emerged.
The NDP Claws Its Way Back
After years of rightward drift, the NDP has a shot at capturing Ontario’s government this week with its most left-wing platform in years.
Emmanuel Macron Goes to Church
France’s neoliberal golden boy is now flirting with religious identity politics.
Mapping the Movement to Dismantle Public Education
It’s not just the Koch brothers: a state by state look at the forces driving school privatization.
Soldiers of Fortune
In the 1970s American mercenaries traveled to Angola and Rhodesia, seized by racist, anticommunist dreams and delusions of grandeur.