Christopher Clark’s Revolutionary Spring is a gripping account of Europe’s 1848 revolutions. The questions raised by those movements and their ultimate defeat are still vitally important for socialist politics in our own time.
Peter Frankopan’s epic history of humanity and the environment offers sweeping perspectives on anthropogenic climate change, but little hope of resolving it.
Unwilling to disrupt the economic system that created mass inequality, liberals invested schools with magical powers to fix a broken society. When public schools failed to clean up capitalism’s mess, they ended up on the chopping block.
During an official state visit, the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has been feted and praised despite his Hindu nationalism and right-wing policies — even by Democrats.
Two years ago, housekeeper Rachel Keke and her colleagues won the longest hotel strike in French history. Now she’s a member of parliament — telling fellow MPs they have no right to impose poor working conditions they wouldn’t accept themselves.
In the years leading up to World War I, Britain was rocked by an unprecedented upsurge of labor militancy. Millions of workers began to learn their own strength and posed a major challenge to the social order.
Now that Joe Biden and Congress have ended COVID-19 protections, millions of people are being kicked off Medicaid for procedural reasons like failing to respond to mail quickly. Many more are set to lose their health care coverage.
A new documentary called Israelism tells the story of young American Jews coming to question the narrative they were taught about “the only democracy in the Middle East.”
In a society with almost no social safety net or guarantee of economic stability, even professional athletes like Denver Nuggets guard Bruce Brown are forced to choose between job satisfaction and economic security.
Socialist feminists have long argued that gender inequality isn’t a universal rule of human societies. There’s now a mountain of historical evidence to back up that view, showing us that we can abolish social hierarchies if we recognize their man-made origins.
Democratic socialists and allies in Jersey City, New Jersey, just helped pass an ordinance guaranteeing tenants a right to legal representation in eviction cases. It’s the latest in a series of similar victories across the country.
One person, one vote? Well, if corporations are people, it only makes sense that those corporations get the right to vote.
Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky is best known as the designer of the Frankfurt Kitchen, forerunner of modern fitted kitchens. Her work was informed by her communist politics — a cause in whose name she joined the resistance against Nazism.
If the Supreme Court strikes down Joe Biden’s proposed student debt cancellation plan tomorrow, the president has other, smarter options to relieve student debtors.
In an effort to expand the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which gave corporations personhood and free speech rights, Delaware’s Democratic-controlled legislature is considering a Republican bill that would give corporations the right to vote.
Jonathan Eig’s new Martin Luther King biography stirs exhilaration and visceral pain at the unexpected triumphs and vicious violence that King and the freedom movement endured. But it largely leaves out a key piece of King’s legacy: his commitment to labor.
Last year, the Young Democratic Socialists of America’s Red Hot Summer program trained hundreds of young people to organize their workplaces and helped launch union drives representing thousands. This year’s program hopes to be even bigger, writes YDSA’s cochair.
Jacobin helped host a gathering of 80 democratic socialist public officials over the weekend. It gave me a measure of hope about our movement’s future.
Hundreds are missing, presumed drowned after a shipwreck off Greece, which European officials have called the “worst ever tragedy” in the Mediterranean. Far from a chance event, it’s the latest result of an EU border regime built on thousands of deaths at sea.
If it wins the next general election in the UK, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party could try to fix the damage inflicted on the National Health Service by years of Tory austerity. But Labour seems set on further privatizing the NHS.