Vanessa Redgrave at the Oscars
When an Israel boycott showed up on the red carpet.
19197 Articles by: Frances Abele
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.
The Death of American Universities
As universities move towards a corporate business model, precarity is being imposed by force.
Crocodile Tears of the Wolf
The Wolf of Wall Street‘s eleventh hour Hail Mary doesn’t atone for the rest of the film’s gleeful celebration of rich assholes.
Grieve to Win
A well-organized grievance campaign can help build teacher unions at the most important level: in the schools.
Retooling the UAW
Even if the UAW had won in Tennessee, another conversation is needed about the kind of organization the union has become.
Chokwe Lumumba: A Revolutionary to the End
Chokwe Lumumba (1947–2014).
Unionize College Football
The Northwestern University football team’s struggle to form a union raises the question of what it means to be a worker.
The Work of Public Work
Going beyond the boundaries of the Ivory Tower is a good thing. But public engagement is still work.
Is Venezuela Burning?
Only a deepening of the Bolivarian Revolution can save it.
Arresting the Carceral State
Educators must work to end the school-to-prison pipeline.
Lessons from Chattanooga
Workers need a functioning, relevant Left with feet both inside and outside unions.
Mentoring for Mobilization
A continued lack of engagement with new members will quicken the death of teachers’ union locals across the country.
Palestine’s Capitalists
A powerful group of Palestinian capitalists are profiting off occupation.
The Spirit of Stuart Hall
Remembering the power of Stuart Hall’s being and thought.
The Rent Is Too Damn High
On Greg Mankiw and the enormous cost of letting finance rule.
Where Would the Tea Party Be Without Feminism?
Nancy Mace, Tea Party candidate and feminist movement beneficiary.
Jacobin Radio Philadelphia, Ep. 2
We’re happy to present our second episode of Jacobin Radio Philadelphia.
A Response to Nicholas Kristof
I didn’t realize the only way to serve the public was to be a consigliere.
After Chattanooga
Examining the roots of the United Auto Workers’ defeat at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tenn., plant.
Tennessee Car Sick Blues
The UAW needs to examine its history and remember where power comes from — rank-and-file workers.