It’s been three months now since socialist activist and Jacobin contributor Max Zirngast was taken into custody by Turkish police. But a campaign to secure his release is in full swing — including an event tonight in New York City.
The micro-scandals alleging that Bernie Sanders doesn’t take racism seriously won’t end any time soon. We should call them what they are: cynical attacks on a politician whose commitment to racial justice is intertwined with fighting economic inequality.
Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg has been exposed as a corporate thug. But that was implicit in her lean-in philosophy all along.
The Yellow Vests movement in France is raising up a vital message: blame the fossil-fuel industry and the rich for the ecological crisis, not ordinary people.
In 2015 the international left invested its hopes in Syriza and its promise of a break with austerity. Today, it must call out the repression of social movements in Greece by Alexis Tsipras’s government.
We can only change the world if we understand the actual forces around us. Marxism gives us the tools to do just that.
Liberals believe in a society ordered like a restaurant: some eat, some serve, and there is a manager to keep it all going.
Pundits are pushing Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party to back a second Brexit referendum. They should be careful what they wish for.
The US has a surprisingly large amount of public ownership. But in order for it to truly serve the social good, it must be expanded — and democratized.
In 2016, 14 health workers tried to help civilians trapped in Turkey’s besieged town of Cizre. Today, Erdogan’s government wants to jail them for this act.
Bernie Sanders’s political revolution can’t be limited to election campaigns — it must be brought into our workplaces and unions too.
In an inauguration ceremony unlike any other in Mexican history, Andrés Manuel López Obrador called neoliberalism a disaster. Now he must dismantle it.
France’s elites were quick to condemn the gilets jaunes protesters as stupid and backward. But as novelist Édouard Louis writes, they’re just standing up for their rights.
For the first time in human history, we have the tools to reprogram life itself. That could be a recipe for dystopia — unless we create a scientific commons that values the public good over private profit.
The midterms offered mixed results for affordable housing advocates. But one thing is clear: rent control is back on the agenda.
Think government benefits all go to the poor? Think again — here are five ways Washington shovels billions in public money to the superrich.
Labour MP Rebecca Long Bailey on why socialism is the only basis on which we can begin to confront the threat of climate change.
Social media sucks — but it might just be the best propaganda tool socialists have ever had. That’s why we can’t log off.
When the survival of the planet is at stake, calls for moderation and compromise aren’t a mark of adult politics — they’re a threat to civilization.
On the 40th anniversary of Spain’s post-dictatorship constitution, the center is wracked by crisis, the far right is on the rise, and tensions over Catalonia continue to rise.