Thinking Small Won’t End Poverty
Decades of US-backed community development programs have left behind a disastrous economic and political legacy.
21053 Article(s) by: Benjamin Case
Benjamin Case is a researcher, educator, and organizer living in Pittsburgh.
Don’t Mourn, Organize!
Two letters by the labor singer Joe Hill, who was executed 100 years ago today.
The Wrong Kind of Secularism
The French secular ideal of laïcité is not a misused noble idea — it is deeply flawed at its roots.
France Returns to the State of Exception
The discourse of war is already upon us. But it must be resisted.
Against Community Policing
There’s nothing progressive about community policing — it deepens criminalization and expands police power.
When the Excluded Organize
The domestic workers who asserted their rights in the 1970s provide a model for organizing workers today.
Killing Guatemala
US interventionism has helped defeat working-class struggles in Guatemala, resulting in enduring violence and poverty.
The Salaita Settlement
Steven Salaita has reached a settlement with the university that fired him for criticizing Israel.
Turning Tragedy Into War
The tragic attacks in Paris call for a politics of international solidarity and antiracism — not a new wave of war and repression.
Nationalism’s Heretic
Polish writer Miron Białoszewski poked holes in nationalist myths with idiosyncratic prose.
Will Labor Back Bernie?
The movement for labor to endorse Bernie Sanders is part of an effort to bring political decision-making back to the rank-and-file.
Poland’s Iron Consensus
Poland’s recent elections cemented right-wing dominance and the neoliberal trajectory of the past two decades. Can the Left recover?
The Anti-Poverty Swindle
Corporate-driven development partnerships benefit their sponsors more than those in the Global South.
How to Politicize a Tragedy
We must insist on the political nature of tragedy because politics offers the only way out of violence and injustice.
The Bloco Tightrope
The collapse of Portugal’s right-wing government is welcome, but the Left risks becoming complicit in a new round of austerity.
Progress Without Politics
A new book on Ruth Bader Ginsburg celebrates the liberal project of achieving social change through the courts. But that project has failed.
Challenging Abe’s Japan
The growing youth movement against Prime Minister Shinzō Abe is disrupting Japan’s conservative status quo.
Taking Peace Seriously
Israel’s brutal occupation and refusal to negotiate a just settlement are to blame for the recent spike in violence.
The Worst Company in the World
Brazil’s Vale corporation masks brutal exploitation with the language of South-South solidarity.
From Ed Miliband to Jeremy Corbyn
Ed Miliband was no radical. But he helped lay the groundwork for Jeremy Corbyn’s rise, New Left Review’s Robin Blackburn argues.