James Bloodworth is a writer and journalist from London.
Two years ago, Germany’s Die Linke faced an existential crisis. But this year, it staged a historic comeback. Die Linke’s Ferat Koçak explains how a pro-welfare and anti-racist campaign led his party to victory.
In preparing to strike, United Teachers Los Angeles learned how to build broad backing for common-good goals and prepare for nonviolent action to achieve them — lessons that can be used in the fight against rising authoritarianism.
Donald Trump loves to present himself as a champion of coal miners. But his administration keeps delaying the implementation of a safety rule to lower miners’ exposure to deadly silica dust.
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the US government created a formidable but temporary array of social programs that led to a sharp decline in economic insecurity. Since then, Americans’ economic insecurity has only gotten worse.
Multilevel marketing companies promise that everyone can become a boss and get rich if they hustle hard enough. But they’re actually fraudulent pyramid schemes that, like capitalism writ large, require mass exploitation to enrich the few at the top.
For the first time ever, polls show more Americans support Palestine than Israel. The unwavering fealty to Israel of the Democratic Party and a range of other American institutions can’t last forever.
The Labour Party could have made the case for a humane immigration system that treats refugees with dignity. Instead it has fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far right.
Donald Trump’s attack on the Fed is part of his authoritarian attempt to capture the administrative state. Economist Mona Ali spoke to Jacobin about the stakes of the current clash between Trump and Lisa Cook and what a democratized Fed could look like.
A surprising number of Andrew Cuomo’s allies, donors, and friends have close ties to the late pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
As New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani will have a range of options to encourage large numbers of workers to unionize — essential both for improving working-class living standards in an unaffordable city and building an organized force to win his agenda.
Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing sees the typically pretentious auteur shift gears toward fun and violence in late 1990s NYC. It’s a throwback to gritty 1970s filmmaking but set in the Giuliani era — the perfect setting for our downwardly mobile 2025.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s experience in power in Brazil illustrates that a broad-front strategy in campaigning is decidedly weaker as a case for how to actually govern.
While Donald Trump’s attacks on the Fed are deeply authoritarian, the institution itself is far from blameless. From the 2008 crash to the pandemic, its primary aim has been to protect the interests of the wealthy.
Research shows that work shapes not only material life but also identity and community. If AI erases work as we know it, it could also erase the foundations of mass politics.
There is much more to life than work. We all have families, friends, and a beautiful world to enjoy. We need more time off to enjoy it.
First CVS bled Rite Aid dry with half a billion in retroactive fees, then it bought the corpse and called it consolidation. For consumers, the result is higher drug costs.
Danielle Smith, Alberta’s leader, is fusing libertarian dogma with oil-soaked grievance politics. It’s Canada’s version of the New Right, dressed up in provincial pride.
Donald Trump’s No Tax on Tips policy is a major part of his appeal to working-class Americans. But tipping is itself a strange and flawed system invented to preserve inequality. Critics worry Trump’s policy will only intensify tipping culture.
Grassroots worker organization and mobilization is essential to the success of any socialist electoral project. But socialists in executive office can’t neglect other elements, like maintaining wide popular support and alliances within the state.
Chipmaker Intel has been laying off thousands of its American workers — as it rakes in billions in subsidies from the US government and lavishes multimillion-dollar severance and compensation packages on its former and current CEOs.