The 2017 Jacobin Mixtape
Don’t cry in your champagne. Here’s the best of Jacobin from a remarkable year.
19250 Articles by: Gezi Platform NYC
Gezi Platform NYC is an alliance of activists that engage in actions to support public protests in Turkey.
The Year of Resistance, Inc.
Throughout 2017, business leaders wagged their fingers at Trump with one hand while quietly accepting handouts with the other.
Matching Donations Until the New Year
Through the end of December, donations are matched, meaning your generosity will go twice as far.
The Rohingya and the World
Ending Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya will require confronting both local elites and foreign capital.
The Case Against a Basic Income
A universal basic income would shore up the market. We need ideas that shrink it.
Bolshevism, Real and Imagined
Lenin’s critics like to paint him as an authoritarian through and through. But that picture doesn’t match reality.
The Revolution Party
The question of the party is back on the Left’s agenda — and not a moment too soon.
Medicare for All Is the Answer
Obamacare failed. Medicare for All won’t.
This Isn’t Work, It’s Exploitation
Italian workers occupy an ever-lower place in the European division of labor.
What’s Behind Bitcoin Mania?
Still don’t understand Bitcoin? We’ve got you covered.
The Antidote to Macri
As Argentina’s right consolidates power, left-wing victories at the local level are crucial to reclaiming political space.
Completing the Revolution
Black voters will be at the core of any resurgence in left politics in the South.
Ryanair’s Humble Pie
One of Europe’s most notorious anti-union companies has been forced to recognize a union — and its workers aren’t done yet.
Neoliberals Used to Call Themselves New Democrats
A history lesson for Jonathan Chait.
The Christmas Paradox
Once a year, the rich decide that “the undeserving poor” need help after all.
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
UPS wants holiday cheer delivered quicker — even if it kills their workers.
America’s Authoritarians Next Door
The acquittal today of J20 protesters and journalists is a major win. But civil liberties and press freedoms are still under threat in the US.
Where Next for Finland’s Welfare State?
Li Andersson, the leader of Finland’s Left Alliance, on the country’s diminishing welfare state, rising populist right, and possible socialist future.
Cyril Ramaphosa Is Not the Answer
South Africa needs more than a new leader: it needs a new vision, one that levels economic inequality and dismantles patronage systems.
The Commons, by Apple
The GOP tax bill is an enormous windfall for tech giants like Apple — and they’ll use it to further privatize public spaces.