Australia’s Greens Aren’t the Ones Blocking New Housing

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese doesn’t have a real solution to the housing crisis. That’s why his Labor Party is trying to smear the Green Party as NIMBY antidevelopment activists.

Leftist Elected Officials Should Always Vote No on the Military Budget

It should be a matter of course that self-identified leftist and progressive members of Congress should vote down the annual bloated, dangerous, war-profiteer bonanza that is the military budget.

Gentrification Is Killing John Wilson’s Oddball New York

How To With John Wilson is an ode to weirdo New York. But that New York may not exist for long, as Mayor Eric Adams is determined to sand down the city’s nonconformist edges in the service of economic elites.

Global South Countries Need a New Legal Framework for Debt Relief

Global South countries currently seek debt relief at forums like the IMF and G20, where wealthy nations’ interests dominate the conversation. Low-income economies need a forum where they can collaborate to solve urgent problems rather than begging for relief.

The Oil Industry Makes Its Own Rules in Canada’s Tar Sands

An oil refinery processing tar sands crude without permits for over two decades showcases Alberta’s need for regulation. But with the Trudeau Liberals’ history of giving Big Oil no-strings-attached cash, it’s doubtful that the cavalry is coming anytime soon.

As Italy and Greece Burn, Their Leaders Obsess About Immigrants

EU leaders fearmonger about immigration while neglecting the real and deadly threats posed by climate change. The entire Euro-Mediterranean region should collaborate on behalf of displaced persons, against fossil fuel giants, and toward decarbonization.

Labour’s Left Needs to Regain the Insurgent Spirit That Made Jeremy Corbyn Leader

Keir Starmer has pulled Labour far from his campaign pledges while silencing his left-wing critics. The Left’s situation isn’t hopeless, but it needs to regain the radicalism it showed during Jeremy Corbyn’s first insurgency against the party establishment.

Japan’s Long Stagnation Is a Case Study for the Future of Western Capitalism

The major capitalist economies of Europe and North America have been experiencing low rates of economic growth and population increase. Japan has been in that position since the 1990s, and its experience offers some important clues about what the future holds.

Antonio Labriola Knew That Marxism Was a Philosophy of Action

Antonio Labriola played a major role in the development of Italian Marxism and inspired the thinking of Antonio Gramsci. Labriola knew that capitalism wouldn’t collapse of its own accord: only a socialist culture of activism could bring about a new society.

Private Equity–Backed Insurers Are Failing Policyholders

Over a million people have lost their health insurance thanks to the failures of Friday Health Plans and Bright Health, two private equity–backed insurers — illustrating the risks of private equity moving into the already-unstable health insurance market.

At the Big Three Automakers, Workers Endure Dangerous Work Speeds and Horrible Hours

The United Auto Workers are starting to negotiate their next contract with the Big Three automakers. As bargaining begins, workers at the companies say management is pushing unsafe work paces, more and longer shifts, and divisions between workers.

The Power Rangers Set Was a Hotbed of Labor Exploitation

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was awesome and will live in our hearts forever. Sadly, it was also a completely disastrous nonunion workplace where actors were paid pennies, worked to the ground, homophobically bullied, and nearly set on fire.

For Spain’s Left to Remain in Power, It Has to Remake the State

Spain’s election didn’t produce the expected right-wing landslide — and offers the Socialists and left-wing Sumar another chance to govern. To form a majority, they’ll need to assemble a wider coalition, based on remaking Spain’s democratic institutions.

Rosa Luxemburg Anticipated the Destructive Impact of Capitalist Globalization

Rosa Luxemburg’s work The Accumulation of Capital described the havoc that capitalism wreaked upon what we now call the Global South. Today’s socialist and environmental activists can draw valuable insights from Luxemburg’s understanding of the world system.

NATO’s Expansion Into Asia Is the Mother of Bad Ideas

US lawmakers say the alliance’s movement into Asia is “inevitable.” It’s actually a completely avoidable, completely bad idea.

Staff at Grindr, the World’s Biggest LGBTQ Dating App, Are Unionizing

Workers at Grindr, the popular and long-running LGBTQ dating app, have announced supermajority support for forming a union. Jacobin talked to two Grindr workers about their demands.

Don’t Blow Up a Pipeline

The clock is ticking on averting the worst of climate disaster, raising the question for many if activists should turn to militant actions like industrial sabotage. But it’s not time to give up on democratic politics to save the planet.

UPS Teamsters Will Vote on a Tentative Agreement That Ends Tiers and Raises Part-Timer Pay

On July 25, UPS and its Teamsters workforce announced a tentative agreement, averting a potential August 1 strike. Teamsters will soon be voting on whether to accept the agreement — here are some of the highlights.

How Tunisia Became the EU’s Border Guard

Last year, Tunisia overtook Libya as the primary point of departure for refugees seeking entry into Europe. The EU has responded to this by paying the North African nation billions to violently police migrants.

How Many People Died in the Iraq War?