
When W. Was President
The George W. Bush years were pretty bleak. The political possibilities for pushing back are much more promising today.
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 George W. Bush years were pretty bleak. The political possibilities for pushing back are much more promising today.
Benoit Hamon may be the French Socialist Party’s last chance to reverse its fatal rightward drift.
Featuring Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Anand Gopal, and Owen Jones on resisting Trump’s agenda and building the future we need.
The legal fight against Trump’s attack on Muslims will only succeed if it’s backed up by mass politics.
James Larkin, hero of the 1913 Dublin Lockout, died seventy years ago today.
Steve Bannon was supposed to mobilize Trump’s adoring masses, and so far he’s failed.
A left that does not champion the interests of every oppressed group is no left at all.
By participating in Mexico’s 2018 election, the EZLN can bring its indigenous anticapitalist platform into mainstream politics.
Mexico’s neoliberal reforms have created fertile ground for exploitative “sharing-economy” apps to grow.
Trump thinks he can do what he’s doing now because no one will stop him. He’s wrong.
Stock market booms benefit the rich, not ordinary workers.
What would be the impact of Trump’s proposed 20 percent tariff?
We need a socialist politics that challenges the Democratic Party’s leadership, not just the Right.
To defeat Trump, we have to build democratic, multiracial, militant organizations with a foundation in solidarity.
On International Holocaust Memorial Day we should remember the resistance that organized itself in Nazi death camps.
The Obama Foundation’s new board of directors embodies the neoliberal approach that failed to defeat Trump.
The Left in Cyprus can only reemerge if it steps out of the confines of the “national question.”
President Trump has so many groups at home and abroad in his crosshairs, and he intends to pull the trigger. It is our responsibility to fight back.
Die Linke’s Sahra Wagenknecht is wrong about refugees, borders, and police. But don’t give up on the party just yet.
Couching opposition to Trump in anti-Russia language will only end up benefiting the Right.