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.
It sounds farcical, but GOP politicians like Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney are casting themselves as pro-worker. And corporate Democrats are making the fraud more believable by advancing their own weak-tea program.
Many of the national liberation movements that dominated the news throughout the 20th century have given up the gun. Others have risen to take their place.
In the 1930s, the Communist Party made America’s ideals and culture their own.
Sam Bankman-Fried fanned the flames of crypto madness. And he couldn’t have done it without his powerful friends.
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump fused nationalist appeals with selective attacks on Republican market ideology. As president, he provided more rhetoric than change.
By letting false friends in the GOP appeal to striking railworkers, Democrats are playing with fire.
The Chinese model of state-directed capitalism is coming apart — and it’s unleashing a new authoritarianism.
A brief history of Esperanto.
By ramming a contract down railworkers’ throats, Joe Biden reinforced a basic fact of American life: when you’re at work, you have no democratic rights.
After narrowly coming to power, Lula begins his third presidential term navigating between the demands of his supporters and the threat of a right-wing coup.
With violent crime and mass shortages spiraling out of control, South Africa is nearly a failed state. And the ANC has no one to blame but itself.
France’s right wing claims “Islamo-leftism” is subverting their national culture. But “Frenchness” has always been in flux.
Scholar Kevin B. Anderson discusses Marx’s surprising conclusions on race and national oppression.
Dispatches from the Jacobin diaspora.
We get our business wisdom from the comments section.
Developmentalist nationalism is a poor substitute for socialism.
Combating the nationalism of right-wingers like Giorgia Meloni shouldn’t mean defending the neoliberal consensus.
All the political geography terms you slept through in high school.
The great films that bookend the career of Mikhail Kalatozov brought together revolutionary politics and revolutionary cinema. Each, however, was firmly rejected by the movements they aimed to represent.
Critics say Marxism can’t account for the popular appeal of nationalism. But the Marxist tradition contains some vital insights into the origins and future of national communities.