Let Them In
Nativists and Islamophobes are sowing fear to try to close the door on Syrian refugees. We can’t let them.
19265 Articles by: Karl Leffme
Karl Leffme is a socialist in New York CIty.
The Backlash Turns Violent
The shooting of protesters in Minneapolis is part of a backlash attempting to quiet the movement against police brutality.
Hitler Wasn’t Inevitable
The anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials is cause to reflect on the forces that failed to halt Nazism’s rise.
The French Emergency
From Algeria to the Paris attacks, French elites have used state of emergency legislation to consolidate power and repress dissent.
With Strings Attached
Latin America’s conditional cash transfer programs don’t offer a real answer to poverty and inequity.
How the National Front Changed France
Marine Le Pen has taken the National Front into the French mainstream without shedding the party’s far-right politics.
Chomsky and His Critics
Noam Chomsky on ISIS, his foreign policy critics, and why socialist ideas are “never far below the surface.”
Why SEIU Backed Hillary
SEIU’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton displays the same shortsightedness that has contributed to labor’s decline.
Argentina’s Right-Wing Awakening
No matter who prevails in today’s run-off election in Argentina, the Right will emerge stronger than it’s been in years.
The Austerity Backlash
The Liberal government in Quebec’s attempt to impose austerity has instead galvanized thousands against it.
Abandon the Future
If there’s a lesson from Back to the Future Day, it’s that the future can’t save us.
The Socialism of Bernie Sanders
Jacobin contributors on Bernie Sanders’ democratic socialism speech and what his candidacy means for the Left.
Thinking Small Won’t End Poverty
Decades of US-backed community development programs have left behind a disastrous economic and political legacy.
Don’t Mourn, Organize!
Two letters by the labor singer Joe Hill, who was executed 100 years ago today.
The Wrong Kind of Secularism
The French secular ideal of laïcité is not a misused noble idea — it is deeply flawed at its roots.
France Returns to the State of Exception
The discourse of war is already upon us. But it must be resisted.
Against Community Policing
There’s nothing progressive about community policing — it deepens criminalization and expands police power.
When the Excluded Organize
The domestic workers who asserted their rights in the 1970s provide a model for organizing workers today.
Killing Guatemala
US interventionism has helped defeat working-class struggles in Guatemala, resulting in enduring violence and poverty.
The Salaita Settlement
Steven Salaita has reached a settlement with the university that fired him for criticizing Israel.