An Ode to Sanitation Workers
Without them, the factories would stop, the cities would empty, and civilization itself would collapse. An appreciation of sanitation workers — our whole lives depend on them.
19770 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.
Teachers Are Striking in Poland, Too
A nationwide teachers strike is underway in Poland. It’s challenging the authority of the church and forging links with the country’s resurgent feminist movement — while radicalizing a growing number of students.
The End of Absurdity in Algeria
By taking to the streets in mass numbers, Algerians have unseated Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the country’s president since 1999. Can they take those protests further?
The Fool and the Madman
Last night, Jordan Peterson spouted nonsense about Marxism. And Slavoj Žižek reminded us of how deep into liberal pessimism he’s fallen.
We Just Remembered How to Strike
2018 might have been the year that convinced workers that the strike holds the power needed to move today’s corporate giants and austerity-obsessed governments.
Donate This Week, Get a Free Book
Bhaskar Sunkara’s ‘The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality’ is out April 30. Just this week, get a free copy with a donation to Jacobin.
Thanks, Harvard. But We’ll Take What’s Ours.
Harvard is worried because people increasingly don’t seem to like capitalism. But elite universities and billionaires are part of the problem, not the solution.
Stop Shopping At Stop & Shop
In one of the biggest private-sector strikes in years, tens of thousands of Stop & Shop supermarket workers have walked off the job throughout New England. The strike wave that started last year in West Virginia has finally hit the private sector.
The Corporate Campaign to Kill Bernie’s Medicare for All Bill Is Here
Bernie Sanders has long warned that the wealthy would push back against his agenda. The massive health care company UnitedHealth is starting to do just that — by trying to destroy Medicare for All.
Weimar Israel
Benjamin Netanyahu won reelection by outflanking Israel’s far right. If you listen closely, you can hear the rumble of fascism approaching.
AOC Is Right About Aid to Israel
Israel regularly violates human rights, murders journalists, and is now becoming part of a global far-right alliance. Cutting aid to the country should be “on the table” — to say the least.
Democratic Insiders Are Right to Be Afraid of Bernie Sanders
Party elites and big donors aren’t afraid of Bernie Sanders losing to Trump. They’re afraid he’ll win.
How the Other Half Goes to College
Rich parents bribing their kids’ way into elite schools shows how college admissions is anything but a meritocracy. But the flipside is how poor and working-class kids face barrier after barrier to attending higher education at all, as this advisor to first-generation college students explains.
Planning the Green Tech Revolution
Publicly funded research produced the technology that gave us the internet. It can do the same for the Green New Deal and the transition to a more equitable, sustainable economy.
Agnès Varda (1928–2019)
Agnès Varda’s films evinced a love of, rather than mere fascination with, people.
As President, Bernie Should Cancel All Student Debt
The billions of dollars in student loan debt are an economic and moral crisis. Bernie Sanders should promise to wipe it all out.
I Can’t Believe Elizabeth Warren Is Losing to These Guys
Elizabeth Warren is no socialist — but unlike most of the candidates beating her in the polls, she’s a tough-minded liberal who makes the right kind of enemies.
Workers Should Be in Charge
Every day, private equity companies snatch up firms and strip them dry. But there’s an alternative: allow workers to buy their workplace and run it themselves.
Long Live the Women’s Committee
A dispatch from an embattled worker-run factory in Buenos Aires, where a militant women’s committee has linked the fight in the factory to the broader feminist struggle beyond its doors.
Bernie 1, Fox 0
Bernie Sanders didn’t just face down Fox News and prevail — he called the bluff that underpins our whole two-party system.