Decision Time at DSA
The Democratic Socialists of America’s recent convention in Chicago reflected the challenges of strengthening and expanding a socialist movement rooted in the working class that can effectively fight the genocide in Gaza.
20401 Article(s) by: Frantz Durupt
Frantz Durupt is a journalist at French daily Libération.
What Liberals Don’t Get About the Liberal Order’s Crisis
Liberals often explain today’s disorder as the work of authoritarians or populist agitators. What they miss is that the postwar consensus depended on conservatives, whose defection has left it in crisis.
The Long Walk Is a Long Slog
Based on a forgotten Stephen King dystopian novel, The Long Walk wants to be an allegory for America’s grindset mania. But unlike other works in this genre, it fails to deliver a bang and instead ends with a whimper.
All of This Because of Political Speech
The University of California’s turning over of dossiers on 160 people under investigation for antisemitism, including Judith Butler, to the Trump administration has strong echoes of McCarthyism.
New Poll: Democratic Socialism Is Now Mainstream
A national poll from Jacobin, DSA Fund, and Data for Progress finds broad support for democratic socialist leaders and left-wing policies.
You Aren’t Allowed in These Billionaire Towns
Welcome to the fully privatized city, where the ultrarich can do as they please — no whining from the rabble permitted.
Karl Marx Looked Forward to Revolt Against Europe’s Empires
Some critics have accused Karl Marx of forcing world history into a narrow framework that presented European capitalism as a universal development model. A closer look at Marx’s late writings show how far removed that stereotype is from the truth.
Israel Is Targeting Civilians in Yemen as Well as Gaza
Israel claimed that its bombing of a cabinet meeting in Yemen last month struck a “crushing blow” against the Ansar Allah movement. But the movement’s real leaders were not affected by the strike, and they have vowed to continue their attacks on Israel.
Performative Politics Is a Dead End
Canada’s New Democratic Party once rallied workers around a bold social democratic vision. The leadership contest now unfolding shows a center left so busy virtue signaling it forgets how to build power.
Hyundai’s US Auto Plants Are Rife With Labor Abuses
The raids at a Hyundai battery plant in Georgia earlier this month illustrate the impunity of Donald Trump’s brutal immigration crackdown. They also shine a spotlight on Hyundai’s labor practices, including exploitation of vulnerable migrant workers.
The Socialist Politics of Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur was murdered 29 years ago today. His status as a cultural icon is beyond dispute, but the legend that’s built up around his tragically short life has often overshadowed the radical political outlook that shaped his work.
Political Violence Is Abhorrent. Charlie Kirk Didn’t Think So.
The murder of Charlie Kirk was a moral travesty. We can recognize that without ignoring that he repeatedly fanned the flames of political violence himself.
Right-Wing Economics Courses Are Molding the US Judiciary
Nearly half of US federal judges took crash courses in economics at a conservative-leaning economics institute between 1976 and 1999. After attending the trainings, judges ruled against regulators more often and imposed harsher sentences on criminals.
New Yorkers Support Zohran Mamdani — and Palestine
Repression of Palestine activists on New York campuses like Brooklyn College is being done in the name of protecting Jewish students from antisemitism — even as polls show New Yorkers, including Jews, reject the idea that criticizing Israel is antisemitic.
Lobbyists Are Playing Both Sides of the PFAS Debate
PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” are linked to a range of health risks. In California, some lobbyists fighting a bill that would ban PFAS in consumer products are also lobbying for another bill that would help remove the chemicals from the water supply.
How Israel Succeeded Where South Africa Failed
Bantustans without borders, occupation without formal annexation, and a dual legal system that cements ethnic hierarchy. In Gaza and the West Bank, Israel has refined a model of enthonational control that apartheid-era South Africa struggled to sustain.
College Textbooks: Wall Street’s New Cash Cow
For years, textbook prices have burdened students already struggling with loans and sky-high tuition costs. Now Wall Street is taking over the market, tightening its grip on a staple campus institution: the college bookstore.
Gaza Flotilla Participant: “Gaza Can’t Wait”
We spoke to David Adler, a participant in the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza, about the recent alleged drone attack by Israel on the flotilla and why its participants are committed to continuing their journey despite the dangers.
Bordering on Insanity
Surveillance along the US-Mexico border reaches new extremes.
The Drugs Are Coming From Inside the Military Base
Seth Harp’s best-selling The Fort Bragg Cartel exposes the degree to which America’s drug trade and attendant violent crime are connected to its foreign wars. It’s a timely read as Donald Trump uses both to justify radical new expansions of military power.