New Zealand’s Neoliberal Drift
In New Zealand, neoliberal reforms have widened inequality and undermined the country’s self-image as an egalitarian paradise.
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Why We Still Talk About the Working Class
Socialists focus on the working class because of our diagnosis of what’s wrong with society and our prognosis of how to fix it.
Liberals and Diversity
Liberal commentators believe that you can have diversity or economic justice, but you can’t have both. They’re wrong.
Making Victims Pay
The Trump administration is demanding that Cambodia pay the United States for the brutal, illegal war the US waged there.
The Right’s Model Nation
The Dutch left has been unable to counter the Islamophobic far right, and it will show in tomorrow’s general elections.
Big Data’s Hidden Labor
Tweetstorms and Netflix binges are really fun — and profitable. It’s time to claim the fruits of our digital labor.
The American Empire Isn’t in Decline
The foreign policy establishment remains confident it can steer the US into a new age of global hegemony.
Dermokratiya, USA
With rampant talk of Russian interference, it’s worth recounting Washington’s role in undermining Russia’s 1996 election.
Exceptional Times
Sinn Féin’s surge in Northern Ireland has transformed the political landscape. The Left can’t fail to take advantage.
Trump Is Not Pharaoh
At this year’s seder, don’t turn Trump into Pharaoh — treat him as a plague.
Listen, Socialist
Highlights from Jacobin Radio, which you should listen to immediately.
The Common Sense of Socialism
What can the Canadian experience teach us about building a mass working-class party in the US?
Aliens, Antisemitism, and Academia
Alt-right conspiracy theorists have embraced postmodern philosophy. The Left should return to the Enlightenment to oppose their irrational and hateful politics.
Parts From Hell
The automobile industry takes massive risks with workers’ and consumers’ lives every day.
Reading Capital
David Harvey on a new book that looks at Marx’s Capital through the lens of political theory and Dante’s Inferno.
The Perils of the New, Shiny George W. Bush
The cuddly George W. Bush who paints pictures of dogs and Jay Leno is a war criminal. He doesn’t deserve an inch of rehabilitation.
Why Do Socialists Talk So Much About Workers?
Workers are the only agent that has a structural place within society that can bring the centers of power to their knees.
How to Undermine Trump
The best place to fight Trump is the place where workers have the most power: at the point of production.
Sabotaging Peace
Colombia’s peace deal is being threatened by a surge of right-wing violence.
Strikes Aren’t for the Privileged
The claim that strikes are reflections of privilege is totally disconnected from the history of women’s labor organizing in the US.