Europe’s Forgotten People
Government policies are fueling rather than combating anti-Roma discrimination in Europe.
19265 Articles by: Elizabeth Mahony
NYSUT’s Teachable Moment
New York State United Teachers members have an opportunity to create a broad educational justice movement — if they can move their union away from politics as usual.
Squatters of the Lower East Side
As New York City was transformed by real estate and finance interests in the 1990s, a group of squatters on the Lower East Side waged battle for affordable housing.
Power to Which People?
Progressives should be less concerned about how people are protesting and more concerned about who is mobilizing and what they’re fighting for.
Graduate Students on Strike
University of California graduate students explain why they’re striking.
The Left and Labor Strategy
The Left needs a more coherent vision for its work inside the labor movement.
Italian Communism Remembered
An interview on il manifesto, the PCI, and the road not taken between Stalinism and social democracy.
Issue 14 Preview: “A World to Win”
The new issue of Jacobin will be out in May. Here’s a sneak peek and an animated GIF to share with your friends.
Poverty and the “Tailspin of Culture”
Rep. Paul Ryan’s recent explanations for urban poverty don’t differ significantly from President Obama’s.
The Left and Free Speech
Is the Left more opposed to free speech today than it used to be?
Writing History with Wite-Out
PBS’s The Abolitionists relegates African Americans to little more than background scenery to a struggle against slavery won by whites.
In Defense of Density
New construction isn’t the only solution to New York’s affordable housing crisis, but the Left is wrong to dismiss it outright.
A Crack in the Wall
The barbarity of US immigration and deportation policy has led to the reemergence of mass border crossings.
Circling The Square
Jehane Noujaim’s The Square offers a sympathetic portrait of courageous Egyptian protesters while papering over the serious political divisions in Tahrir.
All That Is Solid Melts into Condos
Bill de Blasio’s recent housing deals give some insight into what the Left is up against in New York, even with a progressive mayor.
Saving Labor From Itself
For union officials, too often “saving the union” means maintaining union dues from a workforce suffering under bad contracts.
Wes Anderson and the Old Regime
With The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson has reached the dizzying point of fantasizing about feeling nostalgic for nostalgia itself.
Underestimating Capital, Overestimating Labor
There was no crisis of profitability heading into the financial crisis and there is even more obviously no profitability crisis now.
Tony Benn (1925–2014)
Tony Benn really did pose a danger to the British establishment; because he continued, even after Thatcher and Blair, to inspire those pushing for radical change.
Jacobin Radio South Africa, Ep. 2
On the Democratic Alliance party and the failures South African liberalism.