Jonathan Sas has worked in senior policy and political roles in government, think tanks, and the labor movement. He is an honorary witness to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. His writing has appeared in the Toronto Star, National Post, the Tyee, and Maisonneuve.
The Federal Trade Commission has taken Amazon to court over monopolistic practices. The trial is demonstrating just how much market power the corporate behemoth wields — and that we probably need more than meager antitrust law to rein it in.
Israel is bombarding Gaza, slaughtering civilians en masse and vowing to turn it into a “city of tents” following this weekend’s horrific violence. An immediate cease-fire to end the cycle of bloodshed couldn’t be more urgent.
Left denunciations of “Keynesianism” often seem obvious and self-evident. But socialist economic analysis has had more to do with Keynes’s ideas than usually acknowledged.
Israel has long preferred force to peace, segregation to equality. Its brutal air strikes on Gaza are a continuation of that policy — and will do nothing to bring peace and dignity to civilians on both sides.
Israel’s backers in the US and Western Europe claim to be opposed to violence. But they’ve done everything they can to shut down or criminalize nonviolent action by Palestinians and their supporters, from international legal cases to the BDS movement.
Democratic socialist politicians like Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib are right about the violence in Israel and Palestine: we should both be mourning civilian deaths and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation.
Remember the policy “nudges” of the Barack Obama years, which purported to fix all manner of social ills by pushing people to behave differently? Surprise, surprise: its intellectual edifice, behavioral science, has been exposed as a fraud.
New temporary House speaker Patrick McHenry is a puppet of the financial, real estate, and debt collection industries, gladly taking 90 percent of his campaign cash from lobbyists in exchange for advocating blanket deregulation.
Two years after his 1982 album Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen released Born in the U.S.A. Together, they provided a tragic-romantic view of the working class in Reagan-era America.
The September 30 election in Slovakia was widely reported as a win for “pro-Moscow candidate” Robert Fico. But the Left should listen to the working-class voters who rallied behind Fico’s party — and understand that the vote wasn’t just about Ukraine.
In an interview, veteran anti-apartheid fighter Ronnie Kasrils details his years in exile from South Africa, his efforts recruiting and training activists around the world, and the crucial role of this international contingent in defeating apartheid.
On October 3, 500 Indian police officers detained almost a hundred journalists and researchers. It’s an attack on the Left and press freedom that must be resisted.
Nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, have now been on strike for two months, demanding that the hospital increase pay and address short-staffing issues that ultimately hurt the quality of care.
New research finds that Americans without college degrees live roughly eight and a half years fewer than their college-educated counterparts. Being working class in America means being ground down and left behind, explaining the rise of “deaths of despair.”
Jacobin interviewed Yuichi Ikegawa, a Communist member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, about why Japanese youth are increasingly rejecting militarism, gerontocracy, and the false promises of capitalism.
If Iraqi architecture is known abroad today, it’s for Saddam Hussein’s grandiose palaces and monuments. But the master plan of Baghdad, developed amid the Cold War by a Polish state agency, was far from a centralized and authoritarian vision for the city.
The tragic scenes unfolding in Palestine and Israel are a chilling reminder of the horrors that occupation creates — and the urgency of dismantling Israel’s blockades and apartheid system.
Agnes MacPhail, elected in 1921 as Canada’s first female MP, championed working-class farmers. Her agrarian socialism has as much to offer the decaying rural areas of North America as it did her hardscrabble constituency a hundred years ago.
William Morris condemned the dehumanizing impact of industrial capitalism on workers and raised an early alarm about the threat it posed to the natural world. His vision of ecological socialism is a vital resource for today’s political movements.
Silvio Berlusconi had a dismal record in office, and today countless memes continue to treat him as a comical figure. Laughing at Berlusconi was a way of coping with his rule — but also reflected Italians’ growing cynicism about politics itself.