I’m Gay and I Want Medicare for All
I support Medicare for All because it’s for everyone — but it’s especially important for gay and transgender people. It should be a central demand of the movement for our liberation.
19073 Articles by: Jonathan Sas
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.
Tommy Douglas, Canada’s Great Prairie Socialist, Wasn’t Always So Beloved
The late Tommy Douglas, Canada’s venerable socialist leader and the father of its single-payer health care system, is now revered as the “greatest Canadian.” But in his time, he was a radical and an enemy of the establishment.
“Let’s Build a Fighting Force on the City Council”
Carlos Ramirez-Rosa was once the lone socialist on Chicago’s city council — now he’s joined by five members of the Democratic Socialists of America. In an interview with Jacobin, Rosa talks about the attacks from the city’s political and capitalist class that didn’t land and the agenda for the city’s newly elected socialists.
Surprise! We Need Medicare for All
It’s good to see both Democrats and Republicans taking surprise medical bills seriously. But they’re missing the solution under their nose: Medicare for All.
The Last Socialists
Denmark is famous worldwide for its public services and safety net. Yet as Social Democrats retreat from their traditional values, the radical left is the only remaining force defending welfare state protections.
Selling Out Our Values
Denmark’s general election is set to produce the most left-wing parliament in decades. But the country’s Social Democrats have disgraced themselves with anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Tiananmen, 30 Years Later
30 years ago, the Chinese government began its massacre of hundreds of student and worker activists at Tiananmen Square. The government wants to erase this history from memory, because they fear students and workers again taking to China’s streets.
“Worker Power Is a Threat to the Way the University Is Run”
Graduate workers at the University of Chicago are on strike this week. They’re demanding union recognition from an administration that is relying on a Trump-appointed labor board’s hostility to workers to deny graduate workers’ organizing rights.
Corbyn Stands up to Trump
Jeremy Corbyn has snubbed Donald Trump’s visit to London, earning him predictable criticism from the British media. Who cares? Corbyn is on the right side of history.
In West Virginia’s Education Wars, “We Can’t Play Nice”
Yet again in West Virginia, Republicans are seeking to privatize schools and stop teachers strikes. A West Virginia teacher explains how educators are yet again mobilizing to stop it — and why “there’s nothing to compromise on.”
The Forgotten Socialists of Tiananmen Square
What the world remembers about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were the students. But above all, it was a mass workers’ uprising for socialist democracy.
Outsourcing Repression
Bolsonaro doesn’t need an open military dictatorship to crush his opponents. As the “Colombian model” demonstrates, he can lean on violent paramilitaries to do the dirty work for him.
A British Suffragette in America
British suffragette and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst didn’t just want to talk to “society ladies” about the right to vote. She wanted the women’s movement to be part of a broader emancipatory project.
The Irony of Soviet Modernism
How a 1975 blockbuster satirized the spread of a typical high-rise.
Rebuilding the Social City
To solve the housing crisis, we may have to go back to the future.
The Unmaking of the British Working Class
Margaret Thatcher described Right to Buy as ‘one of the most important revolutions of the century.’ She was right. And we’re still living with the consequences.
The Homeownership Trap
Millions have already faced the dark side of the American Dream. Is there a way to stabilize and democratize homeownership?
Homeless People Don’t Need an App, They Need a Fucking House
It’s really not complicated. Homeless people need homes. So we should give them homes.
The Cooperative Option
Mutual aid cooperatives in Latin America give us a glimpse of what democratic social housing could look like.
The Zombie-Investor Apocalypse
There’s no use in asking why vacant housing and homelessness exist despite the presence of the super-wealthy. These issues exist directly because of them.