Warsaw Is Stepping Up for Ukrainian Refugees
More than 2 million refugees have fled the war in Ukraine for Poland in the last month. In Warsaw, a solidarity movement involving thousands of volunteers has greeted them.
19514 Articles by: Karl Leffme
Karl Leffme is a socialist in New York CIty.
Joe Biden’s Careless Babbling Could Get Us All Killed
When he ran for president, Joe Biden was sold as the adult in the room who would choose his words carefully. But in just the past few days, he’s called for regime change in Russia and seemed to accidentally reveal the US is training Ukrainian troops in Poland.
In Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s Prison Writings, the Flame of Egypt’s Revolution Still Burns
Alaa Abd el-Fattah is a leading Egyptian dissident, today held in a maximum security jail in Cairo. His prison writings express the living thought of the Egyptian revolution, defying the Sisi government’s attempt to extinguish it.
Capitalism Is Killing Your Romantic Life
Relationship problems are usually considered private struggles. But from financial stress to overwork, capitalism’s systemic pressures upend our romantic lives, too.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Campaign Shows That the French Left Can Still Win
Rising poll scores bring Jean-Luc Mélenchon ever closer to making the runoff in April’s presidential election. France Insoumise’s Manon Aubry tells Jacobin how the Left is challenging the neoliberal and far-right stranglehold over the country’s politics.
Were the 1990s Really Devoid of Politics?
Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties imagines the decade as dominated by pop culture, not politics. In reality, Gen X was passionately political during the 1990s — and centrists were busy laying the groundwork for the politics of the next century.
The Outfit Is a Throwback to Old-Time Film Viewing
The Outfit is a modest crime drama about the danger of underestimating strangers. It’s the kind of movie that would have been a pleasure to stumble upon in a theater in the old days of leisure time when people had a few hours to kill.
Minneapolis Educators Just Showed the Country How to Strike and Win
The Minneapolis teachers’ union just won a nearly three-week-long strike. We talked to two strike leaders about what they saw on the picket line and how militant unionism that fights for the whole working class can spread across the country.
John Fetterman Is Facing an Attack From a For-Profit Health Super PAC
Pennsylvania lieutenant governor and US Senate candidate John Fetterman supports Medicare for All. So it was only a matter of time before he drew the ire of the ultrawealthy health care capitalists who benefit from our for-profit system.
The Buffalo Bills’ New Stadium Is a Scam
The billionaire owners of the Buffalo Bills, Terry and Kim Pegula, have struck a deal to collect $850 million in public money for a new stadium. It’s a scam we’ve seen time and time again — one that enriches a team’s owners at the expense of local residents.
Education Reformers Are Waging a War on Play
For decades, education reformers have proposed academic performance, measured by standardized testing, as the solution to inequality. It doesn’t work, and it’s losing Democrats votes. But most important, it’s costing kids the opportunity to learn through play.
P&O Exposes Britain’s Anti-Worker Economy
Eight hundred P&O Ferries workers were told to expect a special announcement. A few hours later, they received a video informing them they were fired, with immediate effect. This is the British economy the Tories built.
NLRB Says Trucking Companies Are Illegally Misclassifying Port Drivers to Stop Unionization
Logistics companies are reportedly engaged in illegal union busting at the LA and Long Beach ports — including by misclassifying employees as independent contractors. The NLRB wants the employers to reclassify drivers and compensate them for lost income.
The United States Is Not the World’s “Indispensable Nation”
The world needs new security arrangements to keep the peace. American “leadership” — the global dominance sought by the US national security establishment — is no substitute for those arrangements.
Dartmouth Undergraduate Workers Are Unionizing
Undergraduate student workers at Dartmouth are forming a union. Jacobin spoke to five student workers and union organizers about how the campaign started, what they’ve won so far, and how other student workers across the country can organize campus labor.
No, Automation Isn’t Going to Make Work Disappear
Talk of a great technological replacement suggests that automation is rendering most workers obsolete. But innovation isn’t simply replacing human workers — rather, it’s created a battle over whose interests the new technologies will serve.
Russia’s War Has Nothing to Do With “Denazifying” Ukraine
In the early 20th century, Ukraine was repeatedly a site of antisemitic violence and genocide. Even today, racism hasn’t disappeared — but Jewish people’s place in today’s Ukraine shows that antisemitism is no eternal national trait.
How the Starbucks Worker Organizing Model Can Accelerate Unionization Across the Country
A Starbucks union drive is sweeping across the country. In an industry that has been all but impossible to unionize, these baristas have created an organizing model that can be replicated at similar corporate chains everywhere.
The Tories Pushed Britain Into Widespread Hunger
In 2010, 60,000 food bank packages were distributed in Britain. Last year, it was 2.5 million. The Tories forced these people into relying on food banks, and in the near future, things are only going to get worse.
What the Left’s Critics Ignore About Military Solutions to Ukraine
Critics have taken the Left to task for its skeptical view of offensive military aid for Ukraine. They are quick to forget the fraught record of liberal interventionism around the world.