Debating Catalonia
Izquierda Unida MP Alberto Garzón debates the Catalan independence referendum with the CUP’s Pau Llonch.
21063 Article(s) by: Christina Groeger
Cristina Groeger is a history professor at Lake Forest College and a member of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America.
Struggle Session
Suzy Hansen’s Notes on a Foreign Country asks its American readers to finally recognize their nation’s place in the world.
Struggle or Starve
In 1932, Ireland’s Catholic and Protestant workers united in a communist-led rebellion. That instant of radical solidarity holds lessons for Irish politics today.
Shooting Bullets at a Hurricane
Centrist solutions to climate change are both impotent and dangerous.
Hindutva’s Forward March
In India, Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP is consolidating its power through vigilante violence, censorship, and state repression.
The Political and the Technical
Rebutting the latest anti–Medicare for All nonsense.
The Equifax Way
From its inception, Equifax has helped make discrimination a cornerstone of the American economy.
As the Ink Fades
Once upon a time, typesetters’ unions were strong and militant. But they failed to keep up as technology transformed the industry.
The Ecological Is Political
In the coming crisis, inequality will kill as many people as storms do.
Capitalism and Poverty
Who was poor in 2016 — and why our system keeps failing them.
Class Clowns
Juggalos are marching on Washington tomorrow — and the Left should support them.
From Trotsky to Buckley
James Burnham mutated from firebrand revolutionary to National Review co-editor, and today he is getting a second life all over the conservative press.
An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Bernie Sanders has introduced his long-anticipated Medicare-for-All bill. Where do things now stand in the long fight for health care justice?
Kate Millett (1934–2017)
Second-wave feminist Kate Millett wrote with a sweeping ambition that matched the political ferment of the times. We need the same today.
Justice Deferred
DACA only exists because young activists fought fearlessly for it. Its end would be a blow to the movement for immigration justice.
Jacobin Sells Out
Years ago, we warned you — it was only a matter of time before we capitulated to liberalism. Now we’re selling tote bags.
The Spill on the Río Sonora
The story of Mexico’s miners and their struggle for dignity and justice.
It Keeps Happening
We already knew that Hillary Clinton was a hypocrite, but she’s taking it to a whole new level this week.
Striking Against Macron
French unions will strike today against Macron’s anti-labor reforms. It is likely to be the beginning of a long battle.
End the Sanctions
Trump’s draconian sanctions against Venezuela will hit the country’s workers and poor the hardest.