Frances Abele CM is Distinguished Research Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy Emerita at Carleton University. She is a research fellow at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation and the Broadbent Institute. Much of her work focuses on indigenous-Canada relations.
Ugo Okere is a 22-year-old Nigerian immigrant and democratic socialist running for Chicago City Council. In an interview, he describes his history as an activist, the smears he’s faced from the incumbent, and why democratic socialism “is about democratic control of every single facet of our life.”
How New York City socialists and their allies combined electoral muscle with front-stoop politicking to keep Amazon’s headquarters out of the city.
Liberals and conservatives alike love to decry AOC’s Green New Deal as “unrealistic.” But what’s really unrealistic is continuing on the path of denial and incrementalism we’re on now.
The attacks on Ilhan Omar mirror the bid to paint Jeremy Corbyn as an enemy of Jews. The Labour Party’s recent history tells US socialists how we can resist such smears — while also fighting antisemitism.
Let’s call Amazon’s cancellation of its New York City headquarters what it was: a capital strike. It’s a demonstration of why we must overcome capitalists’ power over investment.
US intervention in Venezuela wouldn’t just be a catastrophe for that country — it would be a disaster for neighboring Colombia too.
As 2020 approaches, we indulge in some crass Sunday morning horse-race punditry.
Here’s Bernie Sanders in his own words — from denunciations of US militarism to his prediction that “within a decade, Mississippi could become one of the most progressive states in the country.”
Within hours of going on strike, West Virginia educators defeated a dangerous education privatization bill. They’ve again reminded us of a simple truth: strikes work.
Donald Trump is right: the biggest threat to his administration right now isn’t from liberals. It’s from Bernie Sanders and democratic socialists.
The New York City left won an astonishing victory over Amazon. The triumph holds lessons for leftists everywhere.
In 2016, union leaders admired Bernie Sanders’s long track record of fighting for the working class but considered him “unfeasible.” That’s no longer the case. Organized labor must back Sanders’s 2020 campaign.
Elizabeth Warren’s political tradition is the left edge of middle-class liberalism; Bernie Sanders hails from America’s socialist tradition. Don’t confuse the two.
Bernie Sanders is running for president again. His message is simple: there’s a class war raging and working people need to win it.
One year after their historic victory, West Virginia educators will be going on strike again tomorrow — this time to stop a pro-privatization, anti-union bill.
At Wright State University in Ohio, faculty recently went on one of the longest strikes in the history of public universities. Jacobin spoke with a strike leader about the assault on public education.
The Mexican and international right are united in their efforts to delegitimatize the AMLO presidency.
Health workers have long been wary of job actions that disrupt their patients’ care. But the Irish nurses strike shows how strikes can actually defend public services and win popular support.
To meaningfully confront mass incarceration and police violence, the Left must move past race reductionism by recognizing the complexities of black political life.
Netflix’s Trotsky miniseries demonizes its namesake with antisemitic themes and rank nationalism.