Fifty years since Portugal’s democratic revolution, the far-right Chega party is on the rise. It’s exploiting disaffection with mainstream parties — but also nostalgia for the days when dictator António de Oliveira Salazar ruled a Portuguese empire.
Fifty years ago today, a left-wing military revolt against Portugal’s dictatorship transformed into an anti-colonial social revolution that shook the world. Now, in 2024, its radical history is being forgotten at home.
Fifty years ago today, Portugal’s Carnation Revolution began as soldiers overthrew the dictatorship. Although the revolution was ultimately contained, it changed the face of European politics and hastened the shift to democracy in Spain and Greece.
Globalization is a project of class war whose destructive effects have driven many US workers into the Trumpian right. The Left needs a real response to the problems raised by global capital mobility — and that should start with capital controls.
Backers of Israel’s war have lost the battle for hearts and minds, so they’ve ginned up a controversy over student protests — they want us talking about anything other than the genocide in Gaza.
Like those who protested the Vietnam War, the college students currently protesting Israel’s vicious assault on Gaza are in the right. Future generations won’t look kindly on those who used the moment to smear campus protesters as “antisemites.”
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is Guy Ritchie’s British twist on the old World War II “man on a mission” flicks. But despite being loosely based on a true story, it plays more like a cartoon.
The New York Times’ David Leonhardt has written a compelling overview of the improbable rise and spectacular fall of the New Deal order. But he understates the difficulty in reviving a form of American social democracy.
In the wake of Arizona’s resurrection of a 19th-century law banning abortion, it’s clear that the post-Roe right will go to great lengths to limit reproduction freedom. The abortion rights movement will have to mount a campaign of equal magnitude.
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain: “We win by giving working-class people the tools, the inspiration, and the courage to stand up for themselves.”
The sparsely populated Himalayan region of Ladakh occupies a key strategic position on the border with China and Pakistan. With national elections underway, its people are protesting against Narendra Modi’s government and its record of broken promises.
South Korea’s legislative election was a blow to conservative president Yoon Suk-yeol, whose party was routed by its liberal opponents. But the vote also weakened the left forces seeking to challenge the dominance of two pro-business parties.
A Pentagon program sends military officers to work for top defense, tech, and finance corporations for one year. These fellows then report back to the Defense Department — helping place corporate interests at the very heart of US military strategy.
Behind Amazon’s lightning-fast delivery service is an entire population of Amazon Flex workers, whose wages are meager and whose employment status is as independent contractors rather than Amazon employees.
In Philadelphia today, Democratic Socialists of America–backed candidate Cass Green is standing for election for state house against scandal-ridden, billionaire-backed incumbent Rep. Amen Brown. Jacobin spoke with Green about her campaign.
Deep-pocketed right-wing Trump backers eager to drive a progressive from Congress are swelling the campaign coffers of George Latimer, Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s challenger in the 16th congressional district of New York.
Italian Marxist Rossana Rossanda was born 100 years ago today. Her country’s Communist Party sought a gradualist “Italian road to socialism” — but she insisted that the class struggle in Italy was tied to the fate of the world revolution.
Fresh off of the United Auto Workers’ blowout unionization victory at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant, we spoke to a VW worker there about why the drive won and where the UAW goes from here.
As increasingly severe natural disasters ravage the South, insurance companies are abandoning clients, increasing premiums, and fighting regulation measures — forcing homeowners to fend for themselves in the wake of destruction.
A new study examines the Democratic rhetorical and campaigning failures that may help Republicans entrench their position as the new party of the American working class.