On King David, King Donald, and the 2028 Election

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Jacobin Finally Gets the Key to the City

Now Who’s the Boss?

When and where organized labor’s been on the move.

When Unions Built Social Housing

Throughout the mid-20th century, immigrant associations and labor unions bought and built thousands of co-ops to house working-class New Yorkers. A left-led co-op revival might provide a way out of our present-day urban housing crisis.

Sharing the Big Apple

Union co-ops were a source of both affordable housing and displacement for New York’s workers.

Downstate Socialism

New York’s socialist movement found a mid-century standard-bearer in an Italian American congressman from the Bronx.

Mayor Mamdani’s Budget Can Add Up

New York’s incoming socialist mayor faces real fiscal constraints — but also real opportunities. With a strong tax base, modest reforms, and a clear political mandate, Zohran Mamdani has the tools to govern.

Waiting for Socialism in Schenectady

On Marxism, Murder Sprees, and the Age of Mamdani

Issue 60: Misery Index

Crunching the numbers on the class war.

The Oligarch Upstairs

Some of the most over-the-top apartments in New York City are owned — and left empty — by überwealthy foreign nationals.

When the Rich Say “We’re Leaving”

Every time we want to change society to benefit average people, we have to deal with ultrawealthy crybabies.

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism

Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonialism-created-capitalism” argument fails, and why Marxism provides a better account of its emergence.

Making a May Day 2028 General Strike a Reality

In the wake of the historic stand-up strike two years ago, United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain called on the labor movement to prepare to strike together on May 1, 2028. What will it take to make a successful general strike a reality?

Sortition Can Help Cure What Ails Our Democracy

Americans are frustrated with our increasingly oligarchic political system. Selecting an assortment of lawmaking deliberative bodies through random lotteries could help fix it, by empowering ordinary people rather than unaccountable politicians.

Threatened With Jail for Offering Blankets to Migrants

Twenty-four aid workers in Greece are being tried on trumped-up smuggling charges after they gave blankets and water to migrants. Some have been in pretrial detention for months in a case highlighting the EU’s authoritarian clampdown on migrant rescue.

American Socialists Aren’t Tired of Winning

More than 100 democratic socialist elected officials, staffers, and organizers from across the US met in New Orleans for the How We Win conference last weekend. The gathering demonstrated American socialists’ growing influence and confidence.

Google Paid to Fete Key Lawmakers at a Secret Summit

Google recently paid state lawmakers upward of $2,000 as “gifts” to cover their attendance at a secret all-inclusive summit with “educational” sessions discussing artificial intelligence and other issues that many of these officials will soon be voting on.

Labor Isn’t a Special Interest. It Promotes the Common Good.

Decades of data shows that nonworkers, including retirees and students, make up one of labor’s most consistently pro-union constituencies. The movement has more allies than it realizes, and harnessing them could reshape its strategic horizon.

Far-Right Billionaire Vincent Bolloré Returns to Africa

Billionaire Vincent Bolloré is known for his use of his media empire to promote Islamophobic pundits in France. Now the corporation he controls is buying up TV broadcasting and film across Africa.