Australia’s Gas Crisis Proves It’s Time to Renationalize Energy
Politicians and energy companies say there’s a gas supply crisis, but huge price increases are caused by profiteering private corporations. It’s long past time to renationalize them.
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In El Salvador, Bitcoin and the Police State Have Gone Hand in Hand
Mario Gómez is one of El Salvador’s most prominent critics of the government’s recent embrace of Bitcoin — which may explain why he was recently arrested by Salvadoran police, he told Jacobin in an interview.
Democratic Leaders Don’t Fear Their Own Base. They Should.
Democrats have reneged on their longtime promise to codify Roe v. Wade every time they’ve held power. Party leaders will not fulfill that promise until and unless they fear their own voters.
Voting Harder Won’t Bring Back Roe
The end of Roe v. Wade is a disaster that voting alone can’t solve. We need an abortion rights movement that organizes beyond individual elections and fights for reproductive freedom as part of a federal universal health plan.
The G7 Won’t Save Us. Only Global Mass Politics Against Austerity and Climate Change Can.
At this week’s G7 summit, the leaders of seven of the world’s wealthiest nations will discuss the dismal state of global affairs, from war to climate change. But we can’t trust them to solve problems of their own making.
No, We Can’t Afford €100 Billion for Rearmament
The Bundestag has voted to make Germany the country with the highest military budget after the United States and China. For decades, Germany has tightly restricted social spending — but when the money is for weapons, no such limits apply.
Western Sanctions on Russia Aren’t Working as Intended
The US-led sanctions on Russia were meant to force an end to Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine and weaken his hold on power. Instead, their main effect has been to exacerbate the West’s own economic problems and deepen its internal divisions.
PPP Loans Were Supposed to Help Workers. Instead, They Evaporated Into Thin Air.
American businesses received billions of dollars to continue providing jobs during the pandemic. But workers haven’t seen much of that money — so where did it all go? In one typical Michigan town, it seems to have gone straight into employers’ pockets.
The Supreme Court’s Gun Ruling Yesterday Shows It Isn’t Pro-Life
The Supreme Court isn’t pro-life — yesterday, it struck down a New York State law limiting who can carry concealed handguns in public, a ruling that could invalidate most gun control laws throughout the country. The court doesn’t care about mass death.
New Study: Medicare for All Would Have Prevented 340,000 COVID Deaths in the US
A new report finds that Medicare for All would have saved one-third of the one million lives lost to COVID in the US. That’s 340,000 deaths at the hands of our for-profit health system — all to make the private insurance companies even richer.
The German Left Needs to Speak to the Working-Class Majority
This weekend, Germany’s left-wing party Die Linke meets for a congress to respond to its recent electoral decline. For too long, the party has soaked in the language of activist subcultures — and voters have lost faith that it’s serious about wielding power.
Britain’s Anti–Trade Union Laws Are Being Used Against Striking Rail Workers
As British rail workers continue their strike, Tories are trying to force scabs to replace strikers. They only reason they might be able to get with it: Britain’s many laws that are rigged against workers and organized labor.
Dark Money Built the Supreme Court’s Radical Conservative Supermajority
A secretive, well-financed dark money network helped build the Supreme Court’s radical conservative supermajority and has been bankrolling its toxic caseload — all to create the appearance of broad-based support for extremist rulings.
Britain’s Striking Rail Workers Are Drawing the Hatred of the Establishment
British rail workers are on strike against austerity. Unsurprisingly, mainstream media has unleashed an all-out campaign to demonize their union, the RMT — because they want to discourage other workers from following rail workers’ example and fighting back.
In New York, Republicans Are Donating to Democrats, Hoping to Defeat Socialists
In this month’s New York State Assembly races, why are certain center-left Democrats attracting unusual largesse from right-wing GOP donors? It may have something to do with the fact that they are running in primaries against socialist candidates.
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande Has a “Magic Sex Worker” Problem
Critics are fawning over Good Luck to You, Leo Grande for its “brave” sex positivity. But the crowd-pleasing comedy is actually anxiously prescriptive, and it relies on an angelic and selfless sex worker to teach a middle-aged woman how to love her body.
Anthony Quezada: “My Solidarity Is Not With Corporations. It’s With the Working Class”
Anthony Quezada is a socialist running for Cook County Board. Jacobin spoke with him about how watching luxury developers overrun his working-class Chicago neighborhood made him a socialist and the need to bring working people together around what unites them.
Corporations Are Profiting From Inflation
The Left has to understand the causes and consequences of inflation and why it is increasing corporate profits. Then we can make demands that both recognize the dangers of inflation and challenge new austerity measures.
France’s Left Unity Is Proving Short-Lived
In France’s parliamentary election, left-wing parties more than doubled their number of MPs, helping to deny Emmanuel Macron a majority. Yet the smaller forces who backed Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s coalition are already pulling back from any longer-term pact.
The Beating Heart of the US Labor Movement Was at Labor Notes
This past weekend, 4,000 labor militants gathered near Chicago for the Labor Notes conference. Amazon and Starbucks workers, teachers, Teamsters, Bernie Sanders — Labor Notes is a mosaic that brought the labor and leftist upsurge under one roof.