Aber Kawas is a Palestinian American community organizer and socialist running for New York assembly. We talked to her about her family history with ICE, the Palestine movement’s turn to electoral politics, and advancing an affordability agenda.
Donald Trump is aiming to restore US supremacy in the western hemisphere through presidential will, military power, and emergency authority, unconstrained by Congress or international law — a strategic reorientation that runs through Puerto Rico.
Only one in ten American voters want a bigger military budget. Congress keeps approving massive spending increases anyway, as it did when it voted for a nearly $1 trillion military budget last week.
Our comrade won because he told New Yorkers they deserve it all — love, leisure, pleasure, sport.
Cities stopped building not by accident but by design. Our housing system is constructed on scarcity, speculation, and private veto power.
From Milwaukee’s sewer socialists to La Guardia’s New Deal metropolis, urban reformers changed their cities by forging alliances beyond local power.
In the 1970s, the Italian Communist Party was again on the rise in Tuscany. Then it all toppled over.
The hard part is over. The harder part is about to start.
Everything you need to take over your city.
Keeping up with our constituents.
Ken Livingstone’s legacy in London reminds us just how much democratic socialist leadership can do for a single city.
“When the state can’t deliver, people stop believing in collective solutions altogether.”
A new history traces how elite-driven development made New York richer on paper and poorer in practice.
Jacobin contributor Paul Heideman’s reading list on municipal socialism explores how workers’ movements, from Milwaukee to Liverpool, built power at the local level — and how they were defeated.
Aimé Césaire’s time as the mayor of Martinique’s capital city was characterized by his practical, progressive politics — but also by his poet’s eye for beauty.
Fritz Lang’s masterful visual depiction of class stratification in Metropolis remains unrivaled by its would-be inheritors.
New York isn’t what it used to be.
Before there was a YouTube, and even before there was an internet, there was public-access television. Low-budget, talky, unglamorous, and unfiltered, it was the perfect venue for the political rise of none other than Bernie Sanders.
How discontent over housing, and not workplace struggle, made Paris’s suburbs hotbeds of communism.
Every game of golf in New York City comes at a cost.