After LA’s Strike, “Nothing Will Be the Same”
The Los Angeles teachers’ strike was big, it was united, and now it’s victorious. We interview UTLA chief negotiator Arlene Inouye about how the strike turned the tables on the billionaire privatizers.
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Sinn Féin Is Having a Good Brexit
Thanks to the dogmatism of Northern Ireland’s Unionists, Sinn Féin gets to have it both ways: shielding its voters from a hard Irish border while boosting the chances of reunification.
Aaron Sorkin’s Road to Nowhere
Aaron Sorkin wants to give Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez advice. Yet The West Wing creator’s worldview remains a vision of liberalism at its hollowest and most ineffective.
It’s Still Bernie
Don’t listen to the media and think tank clowns — it’s still Bernie.
The Future of the Supreme Court in the Liberal Imagination
With the Right firmly in control of the Supreme Court, elite liberals’ veneration of the undemocratic body might finally be coming to an end.
Divided We Fall
5 years ago, Podemos made a thunderous first entrance into Spanish politics. Now, clashes between leaders Pablo Iglesias and Íñigo Errejón threaten a lasting split and acute demoralization.
Cancerous Growth
The US cancer mortality rate is finally falling. But the gap in outcomes between the rich and the poor is actually widening — another reason why we need Medicare for All.
When King Was Dangerous
Martin Luther King Jr is remembered as a person of conscience who only carefully broke unjust laws. But his militant challenges to state authority place him in a much different tradition: radical labor activism.
Honoring Dr Du Bois
Shortly before his death, Martin Luther King delivered a speech at Carnegie Hall in honor of another legendary black radical: W. E. B. Du Bois. We reprint it here in full.
Without Workers, We Wouldn’t Have Democracy
All around the world, it wasn’t capitalist elites who gave us democracy. It was organized workers.
Toward Sudan’s Next Revolution
A popular revolt is spreading across Sudan. At stake is not just the fate of authoritarian President Omar al-Bashir, but the country’s whole power structure.
Assessing Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping was one of the most important Communist leaders of the twentieth century. Celebrated by the West for his pro-market reforms, leftists should be more skeptical of his accomplishments.
The Conversion of Georg Lukács
Born-again communist, Hungarian revolutionary, Marxist heretic — Georg Lukács was condemned from all sides during his time. Perhaps that’s why he’s perfect for ours.
What LA Teachers Have Already Won
The Los Angeles teachers strike is part of a growing movement of teachers that have made gains by striking. It’s an example for the entire labor movement to follow.
There’s Nothing Feminist About Imperialism
Women now shape the American war machine at its highest levels. That’s nothing to celebrate.
Why They Hate the Women’s March
Both the Right and the center have every reason to fear the Women’s March — it’s advancing a radical vision of feminism for the 99 percent.
What Medicare for All Means for Abortion Rights
Medicare for All is a powerful framework for advancing reproductive justice. But to permanently win the right to abortion, we’ll need to argue for it on its own terms as well.
Back on the Offensive
After a steady decline in turnout, France’s Yellow Vest movement is on the rise again. Emmanuel Macron’s call for a “great national debate” lies dead in the water.
Let’s Talk Bernie 2020
Should Bernie Sanders be the Left’s presidential candidate in 2020? Hamilton Nolan and Bhaskar Sunkara revive the great American tradition of arguing about Bernie online.
A Letter to LA Teachers From Greece
From California to Greece, teachers are fighting attacks on education. Striking Greek teachers write that they stand with the Los Angeles teachers strike.