The Good Old Days
Madeleine Albright’s Fascism: A Warning is full of criticism of Trump — but it’s silent on the swamp from which he emerged.
20412 Article(s) by: Frantz Durupt
Frantz Durupt is a journalist at French daily Libération.
The NDP Claws Its Way Back
After years of rightward drift, the NDP has a shot at capturing Ontario’s government this week with its most left-wing platform in years.
Emmanuel Macron Goes to Church
France’s neoliberal golden boy is now flirting with religious identity politics.
Mapping the Movement to Dismantle Public Education
It’s not just the Koch brothers: a state by state look at the forces driving school privatization.
Soldiers of Fortune
In the 1970s American mercenaries traveled to Angola and Rhodesia, seized by racist, anticommunist dreams and delusions of grandeur.
Justin Trudeau’s Pipeline Boondoggle
An energy company wasn’t sure they could complete a pipeline expansion to transport some of the world’s dirtiest oil. Luckily for them, Justin Trudeau stepped in to help.
Time For Unions To Step Up On Medicare For All
The labor movement can’t afford to keep clinging to the remnants of its private welfare state.
Remembering Pier Paolo Pasolini
A look at the life and politics of Pier Paolo Pasolini, heterodox communist.
Sacrificing at the Altar of the Euro
Breaking up the eurozone would be no simple task. But maintaining the single currency dooms progressive politics across the continent.
China’s Uyghur Repression
In the name of combating Islamic extremism, the Chinese Communist Party has embarked on a massive campaign of harassment and detention of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang province.
Why Do Workers Strike?
Think conservative workers won’t strike? Think again. History shows it’s not workers’ ideas that count, it’s the conditions they face on the job.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour vs. the Single Market
If the next Labour government is to be truly transformative, it has to free itself from the constraints of the single market.
Civil Rights Unionism
In 1940s North Carolina, a Communist-led union of tobacco workers fought to bring democracy to the Jim Crow South.
Beyond Electoral Democracy
The radical democracy of the future requires more than just elections. We need a legislature by lot.
Salvini’s Triumph
The collapse of the planned coalition government in Italy opens the way for a fresh breakthrough for Matteo Salvini’s hard-right Lega.
Betting on the Working Class
The nationwide teachers’ strikes are a reminder that the working class is still the most powerful agent for radical change.
The Price of a Stanley Cup
The Stanley Cup Finals begin tonight. The players on the ice face staggering levels of exploitation and abuse.
Is Corbyn the Future of the Left?
Jeremy Corbyn’s ascent has given hope to the global Left. But the Corbyn model’s success will hinge on how it copes with roiling conflicts over national identity.
The Democratic Precedent
Democrats would like you to think he came up with it on his own, but Trump’s separation of migrant families is a cruel twist on an Obama-era practice.
Ending Their Wars
On Memorial Day, socialists honor the victims of war and struggle for a world free of it.