James Bloodworth is a writer and journalist from London.
The Tenement Museum tells stories of life and labor on New York’s Lower East Side. But it’s not just garment workers from a century ago who needed unions — the museum workers themselves recently decided they did, too.
100 years ago today, Chinese students launched the May Fourth Movement. While Chinese officials invoke the movement to reinforce the status quo, a new generation is rediscovering its insurgent roots.
Rich kids are way more likely to grow up to be artists. And that’s because capitalism doesn’t give us all the freedom to reach our creative potentials.
Spain’s right has declared feminism Enemy Number 1. To defeat the backlash, feminism can’t just be one side in a culture war. It must be about providing everyone with the material basis for autonomy over their own lives.
Forget all the other Democratic candidates: the primary will come down to Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden. If we want to beat Trump, we should stick with Bernie.
AMLO’s party MORENA is launching a mass popular education project. The aim: to empower every working person with the tools to transform Mexico from the bottom up.
The socialist emphasis on the centrality of class isn’t about ignoring racial inequalities, but about crafting a politics capable of ending them.
Pete Seeger would have turned 100 today. Few figures in American history have lived as influential and deeply radical lives as he did. Let’s celebrate him today.
The charges of antisemitism against left politicians like Ilhan Omar are a sick joke. It’s the Right that’s antisemitic — and it has blood on its hands.
Joe Biden has nothing to offer workers of any race. He’s a corporate hack with a phony blue-collar veneer.
Chesa Boudin is a socialist and the child of revolutionaries. Now he’s running for San Francisco district attorney on a platform of ending cash bail and undoing the war on drugs.
Taking pain medication away from patients who desperately need it is no way to fight opioid abuse.
University of Illinois-Chicago graduate workers recently went on strike over high student fees, poverty wages, and the corporate higher education model. After nearly three weeks, they won.
Sex workers don’t need saving. They need what every other worker needs: the power to dictate the terms of their labor.
On Berlin’s May Day 1929, the latent hostility between Social Democrats and Communists finally spilled over into bloodshed. A day meant to demonstrate workers’ unity instead showed tragic divisions in the face of rising Nazism.
Here’s something to celebrate this May Day: History may well look back at our era as the moment the working class finally got back on its feet.
After their triumph on Sunday, Spain’s Socialists are pondering a coalition with the neoliberal Ciudadanos. Yet with nationalist parties on the rise, a government of the center will be anything but stable.
The Spanish Socialist Party swept to victory in this Sunday’s general election. Yet the risk of a liberal-centrist government shows the need to do more than just mobilize progressives against the far right.
A centrist think-tank wagers there are 3 million young voters who could be convinced to join the Conservative Party with just a few image tweaks. Unfortunately for them, that’s delusional.
Elizabeth Warren may have smart policies. But Bernie Sanders has mass politics.