Microsoft and the Yeoman Coders
Microsoft’s purchase of Github is the latest chapter in capitalism’s oldest story: the absorption of artisan labor into the circuits of capital.
19499 Articles by: Benjamin Case
Benjamin Case is a researcher, educator, and organizer living in Pittsburgh.
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Privatization in education has been slow but steady. It’s already crippling many public schools.
Feds Watching
We obtained the FBI’s files on Delmer Berg, a Communist and Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran. They show the bureau’s determination to surveil and crush dissent.
Here’s How Much Money America’s Biggest Corporations Have Stolen From Their Own Workers
An eye-opening new report has documented billions of dollars of corporate theft from workers. The government is turning a blind eye.
Documenting the Undocumented
A new book of photography captures the many faces of undocumented immigration.
Richard Pipes, Prosecutor of the Russian Revolution
Relentless anticommunism defined the late Richard Pipes as more propagandist than historian.
Anthony Bourdain (1956–2018)
Anthony Bourdain’s genius was not in the kitchen. His genius was in knowing which side he was on.
Death of a Cold War Supervillain
Luis Posada Carriles, an anticommunist militant who popped up throughout Latin America over the past half-century, died recently. He won’t be missed.
The Assault on Veterans’ Health Care
Taking a page from the charter school lobby’s playbook, profiteers and ideologues are trying to dismantle America’s best health care system, the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Left in a Corner
Politically isolated and facing repression, the Russian left is pondering its future.
The Catastrophe of the Rohingya
Rohingyas in Burma are now one of most persecuted peoples in the world. What they’re experiencing can only be called genocide.
The Murder of a Trade Unionist
Soumayla Sacko was killed because he dared to stand up for the migrant workers exploited in the farms and fields of Italy.
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.
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.