Politicians like Sahra Wagenknecht say the Left should admit that immigration hurts workers’ living standards. This approach abandons the Left’s historic fight to win improvements for all — and it’s based on blatantly false claims about migration.
Greg Philo, who died last month, was a giant in the field of critical media studies. Philo and his colleagues exposed the conservative bias of TV news across a whole range of issues, from workers’ strikes to Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians.
Despite Canada withdrawing funding from UNRWA, the country’s doctors have not criticized Israel’s actions strongly. As health care workers, they have a moral responsibility to defend the right to health care — they should do so now.
This week, Israel bombed an UNRWA-affiliated school in a central Gaza refugee camp where thousands of Palestinians were sheltering. The attack killed dozens of civilians, mostly children — just one among several civilian massacres in the past 48 hours.
The US is facing a wide range of crises that are hurting average Americans and that demand bold action from the executive branch. Yet Joe Biden is only willing to take such action when capitulating to the Right on issues like immigration.
In Germany, tabloid Bild is leading a campaign to name and shame pro-Palestine activists. H. P. Loveshaft, a Jewish drag king and protester who faced a wave of abuse after a Bild hit piece, tells Jacobin how his identity has been weaponized against him.
As Keir Starmer’s Labour Party coasts toward power, its foreign policy discussion is all about being an outrider for Washington. As geopolitical conflict heats up, it wants to make Britain the US’s most implacable ally on the European continent.
This week, the Amazon Labor Union and the Teamsters announced an agreement to affiliate. If ratified, the agreement would charter a new New York City local, Amazon Labor Union No. 1, International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
The New York Times’s Pamela Paul postures as a free speech champion. Yet somehow, employers blacklisting student Palestine protesters doesn’t seem to bother her.
A historic congestion pricing plan for New York City was slated to go into effect this month. NY governor Kathy Hochul suddenly blocked it this week — and has taken tens of thousand of dollars in campaign funding from auto groups opposed to the plan.
By continuing its military assault on Gaza, massacring civilians in Rafah, and intimidating opponents into submission, Israel is taking rogue action against the International Court of Justice’s Genocide Convention — and the US is enabling it.
Left-wing parties like Die Linke and Podemos look set to perform poorly in this weekend’s EU elections. Working-class voters are far from happy with the current EU leadership, but the Left is failing to convince them that it can change things.
This week, the US tested ICBMs off the California coast. These warheads, which are one of the main contributors to America’s ballooning military budget, are not only strategically impractical but a threat to the lives of millions.
Tens of thousands have died in Gaza and millions face starvation. And Benjamin Netanyahu, the man responsible for it, is being welcomed to the US by Democratic leaders as a dignitary rather than a bloodthirsty maniac.
The Department of Justice is bringing a major antitrust case against the hated Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation. Will it be enough to fix an increasingly predatory live-music industry?
In the 1930s and ’40s, meatpacking employers used racial hiring policies as “strike insurance,” strategically fostering racism to discourage unionization. The Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee organized across racial lines and proved them wrong.
In 1999, 50,000 activists hit the Seattle streets to block a major World Trade Organization conference. The anti-globalization movement petered out shortly thereafter, but the protests set the tone for the mass mobilizations of the 21st century.
Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party is often said to have won Hungarians’ support by offering them government largesse. But the benefits it offers are hardly universal, and they’re helping parts of the middle classes more than working people or the rural poor.
In numerous races across the country this year, Palestine is a key issue for voters. Popular opinion is on the side of a Gaza cease-fire, but pro-Israel billionaires are spending big to overcome that antiwar will.
Leading France’s opinion polls, Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National looks closer than ever to power. Now the far-right party’s top officials are trying to seduce business leaders — and show them that Le Pen’s agenda isn’t a threat to the wealthy.