Benjamin Case is a researcher, educator, and organizer living in Pittsburgh.
Some economists argue that European countries have lower inequality than the US because they distribute market income much more equally, not because of their welfare states. This is false: the welfare state beats market-income compression.
As ICE violently snatches Chicagoans in broad daylight and seems to be waging war on the city itself, Chicago City Council member and socialist Anthony Quezada recounts how the city is pushing back.
When Italy’s dockworkers organized a strike in solidarity with Palestine on October 3, they showed that solidarity and internationalism are still alive in the Italian labor movement.
Fifty-nine years after Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panthers, Charlotte and Pete O’Neal remain in exile in Tanzania. Their story, told through interviews, archives, and firsthand reporting, reveals the movement’s enduring legacy.
For years, across multiple presidential administrations, the US government has been pursuing aggressive lawsuits against the tech giants. The toothless sentence Google recently received for its illegal search monopoly suggests the effort is all for naught.
Redistributing income alone is unlikely to solve America’s vast inequalities. Workers need and want more power in their workplace and for the state to weaken the influence that corporations have over their lives.
Most voters aren’t rejecting Democrats over the culture war. They’re rejecting them because they don’t deliver.
In Roofman, Channing Tatum plays a real-life lovable burglar and family man trying to make it in America. But while writer-director Derek Cianfrance clearly wanted a lighthearted, feel-good movie, Roofman is instead a dark exploration of American pathos.
Last year’s Pelicot trial was the biggest rape case in French history, drawing huge public attention. But only an appeal last week saw the case heard before a jury, allowing ordinary citizens to pass judgement on the rapists.
The activist and writer Cory Doctorow spoke to Jacobin about the steady decline of the “enshittified” internet and what we can do to save it.
Will Amazon disrupt groceries? How did Walmart take over food sales? Is Zohran Mamdani’s public grocery plan too small? Why is the market increasingly polarized between Erewhons and dollar stores? An ex–Whole Foods vice president gives us an industry tour.
Huge bankruptcies for used car firms have exposed Wall Street’s entanglement with the sector. Far from derisking after the Great Recession, banks rebuilt the economy on obscure financial intermediaries that are now sinking.
Last night at a campaign rally, Zohran Mamdani addressed his supporters: “For too long, we have tried not to lose. Now, it is time that we win.”
In Russia and occupied Ukraine, many thousands of civilians have been jailed or forcibly disappeared for speaking out against the invasion. The numbers reflect a crackdown on dissent worse than at any point since the 1950s.
France’s new prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has had a rocky start. Yet as armed forces minister, he has already proved himself where it counts: loyally defending Emmanuel Macron’s austerity plans while pushing for ever higher military spending.
Political fearmongering about the effects of immigration on the British economy doesn’t track with reality.
In 2018, #AbolishICE was everywhere. Seven years later, the agency is bigger than ever, yet the slogan’s champions are nowhere to be found.
The insatiable demands of the military industrial complex are a barrier to human flourishing on a livable planet.
Some American trade unionists have argued that labor should remain “neutral” on the question of Palestine. In fact, the US labor movement has never been neutral: its union officialdom has a more-than-century-long history of allying with Zionism.
While lecturing others on democracy and human rights, the United States has let its own system for enforcing basic labor protections collapse. Its failure to protect the rights of workers should be an international scandal.