The Teacher-Shortage Crisis Is Upon Us
Low pay and classroom-spending cuts are making teaching an unattractive profession. If this doesn’t change, we’re in big trouble. Luckily, teachers, unions, and Bernie Sanders have plans for that.
19127 Articles by: Enver Motala
Enver Motala is an associate of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT) at the University of Johannesburg and of the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training at the Nelson Mandela University.
GM Strikers Hold the Line
Auto workers are three weeks into their strike against General Motors. One of their key demands: that the company make its temp workers permanent.
We Need Mental Health Care for All
Elizabeth Warren wants to “hold insurers accountable for providing adequate mental health benefits.” We want to eliminate private insurers and provide mental health service as a right.
A Britain Worth Fighting For
As Britain’s official war-poster artist from 1941 to 1945, Abram Games produced iconic propaganda for a nation in arms. But the Jewish socialist’s art also portrayed the country that the troops were fighting for — a vision that didn’t always agree with Winston Churchill’s.
“Living Together Shouldn’t Put Us at War With One Another or With the Earth”
The only just future is one in which every person is given the chance to flourish — without exploiting other people or the planet.
Chicago Teachers Are Preparing to Strike — and Bernie Sanders Has Their Back
The Chicago Teachers Union just voted to go on strike this month to fight the bipartisan austerity agenda that’s destroying public education. And guess who has their back? Bernie Sanders.
Saving the Planet Without Self-Loathing
Humans are an environment-making species — and that’s okay. The real challenge of environmentalism and the Green New Deal is not to retreat and let the ecology be, but to change how we make environments.
The Chinese Revolution at Seventy
The Chinese revolution turned seventy this week. If you were looking for reflection on the meaning of that revolution today, you wouldn’t find it in mainstream media coverage.
Bernie Isn’t Going Anywhere
Relax: getting heart stents is extremely common, and Bernie Sanders will be back in action soon. But millions of Americans who lack the senator’s generous health insurance aren’t so lucky.
The Socialist Party in New Deal–Era America
Dwarfed by the Communist Party, the 1930s Socialist Party is often seen as a marginal force. But its successes laid the groundwork for the next generation of organizing — and its politics help us understand Bernie Sanders’s campaign today.
Will Fascism Return to the Far Right?
Today’s far right is little more than an incoherent collection of provocations. But if it grows and attains more power, it will employ the consistent ideology and clear goals of traditional fascism. That’s the danger the Left has to combat today.
“A Feminism Aimed at Liberating All Women Must Be Anti-Capitalist”
Women workers, people of color, and white men in the Rust Belt may not see each other as natural allies. But as Nancy Fraser tells Jacobin, there is a path to uniting the social majority — so long as we recognize our common enemy in capitalism.
Why the Differences Between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Matter
Denying that there are differences between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, and that those differences matter, is absurd. One candidate has a suite of progressive policy proposals; the other has stronger versions of those policies plus a commitment to building a movement to win them.
Latin America’s Bitter Stalemate
The Pink Tide governments failed because they couldn’t transform the region’s economy. But the resurgent right doesn’t have a solution to the economic crisis either — and the impasse is deepening the basis for violent, reactionary politics.
Remembering the First Clash Between UAW and GM
Today’s strike at GM recalls the Flint sit-down strikes of 1936-7: a profit-hungry corporation, a fed-up workforce, and workers’ willingness to take militant action to defend their rights.
Stop US Military Aid to the Philippines
Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war has killed thousands of Filipinos. It is time for the United States to stop enabling human rights violations by ending military aid to the Philippines.
It’s Morning in Joker’s America
Viewing Todd Phillips’s new film through the lens of the present misses the larger picture. In 1981, Ronald Reagan was the original Joker.
Looking at Impeachment From the Left
How should the Left view the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump? Are they a political opportunity or a distraction from the issues that leftists care about? A Jacobin roundtable.
Bernie’s Path to Victory
Don’t worry about the naysaying pundits and polls. Bernie Sanders’s road to victory is through mobilizing the kind of voters who don’t usually vote. Whether or not he can pull it off is up to us.
Everyone Deserves Dental Care
It is long past time to guarantee dental care as a right for every American. There’s only one candidate in the 2020 Democratic primary who’s fighting for dental care to be included in a robust Medicare for All plan: Bernie Sanders.