Benjamin Case is a researcher, educator, and organizer living in Pittsburgh.
Economic power is political power. We spoke with Peter Phillips, author of Titans of Capital, about how the capitalist class is subverting democracy and controlling the lives of billions through massive investments in everything from food to war.
Five tenants’ unions from across the US have announced the launch of a new national organization to take on the power of multistate real-estate capital. The Tenant Union Federation is the first major national effort at tenant organizing in 40 years.
Kamala Harris’s choice of Tim Walz for vice president doesn’t erase her corporate-friendly record. If we want her administration to implement real progressive policies, the Left will have to fight for it.
A new Israeli human rights group report shows that Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and detention centers during the war on Gaza are subjected to torture, sexual abuse, violence, humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, and denial of medical care.
Donald Trump’s embrace of cryptocurrency, which is dominated by the most reactionary and stupid representatives of the tech industry, has made it a partisan issue. But it might turn out to be a misstep.
In postwar Europe, Friedrich Nietzsche was seen as an intellectual proto-Nazi. A new book explains how two antifascist Italian academics — one of whom was a communist — fought to recover the “real” Nietzsche for the Left.
Democrats have a history of making and abandoning big promises for labor. But Kamala Harris’s pick of Tim Walz as vice presidential candidate at least suggests the possibility of substantial pro-union legislating.
An anti-immigration nonprofit with ties to hate groups is pushing GOP lawmakers to expand the use of a government website designed to screen workers’ immigration status.
A German judge claimed this week that a protester broke the law by chanting “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” It’s the latest attempt to criminalize the speech of Palestinians by the supporters of mass killing in Gaza.
The pro-Trump Zoomer sees the 2020s as a degenerate age and the ’80s as a time when men were men. It’s why their homemade videos are filled with VHS scan lines, old Gillette commercials, and Van Halen’s “Jump.”
In Lisbon, soaring tourism has turned tens of thousands of apartments into Airbnbs, pushing out ordinary renters. A referendum on banning short-term rentals in residential buildings could change that.
Australian PM Anthony Albanese has declared war on the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union. Labor says it’s about cleaning up the industry — but it’s really about settling factional scores and boosting developers’ profit margins.
Wealthy pro-Israel donors drove Congresswoman Cori Bush out of office because she thinks Palestinians’ lives matter.
Since Myanmar’s military seized power in 2021, the country has been caught in a bloody civil war. While the army fights bitterly for control over the mines and other industries that fund its war machine, workers pay the cost.
Yesterday a National Labor Relations Board judge found that the ACLU fired an employee for engaging in the protected activity of criticizing her working conditions.
Right-wing commentators are saying Kamala Harris’s endorsement of “equity” is tantamount to Marxism. This is nonsense: Democrats’ narrow advocacy of equity has little to do with the socialist goal of meeting everyone’s basic needs.
Vance’s political rebrand as a self-styled right-populist wasn’t an organic reaction to what he saw in deindustrialized Appalachia. He was radicalized by online discourse goblins.
For years, the far right has benefited from a growing rot in British politics, as politicians and the media promote Islamophobia. Now the establishment refuses to confront these riots for what they are: domestic terrorism by white supremacists.
By the late 19th century, Argentina had the first organized socialist party in Latin America. Its activists took ideas from Europe but gradually developed their own distinctive perspective, adapting socialism to Argentine national conditions.
The Pentagon is now carrying out a $2 trillion, multiyear plan to build new nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines. That means increasing the risk of a disastrous exchange of nuclear attacks — but it’s great business for major weapons contractors.