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Every few months, French president Emmanuel Macron appoints a new government, without his prime ministers ever winning a real base of support. The fundamental problem is the president himself and a dogmatic austerity agenda, which most French people reject.
Residents of Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods need investment in their well-being, not humvees patrolling them like a military occupation, writes Chicago city council member Rossana Rodriguez.
Bernie Sanders clearly sees the future of his movement in Zohran Mamdani, who is now poised to become the next mayor of New York City. In inheriting Sanders’s movement, Mamdani inherits a daunting set of questions and challenges.
Chicago is attempting to model resistance to Donald Trump’s looming authoritarian military occupation of its streets.
At a Brooklyn town hall with Bernie Sanders on Saturday, Zohran Mamdani recounted how Bernie “gave me the language of democratic socialism to describe my politics” and called on supporters to keep organizing after Election Day. We reproduce his speech here.
Our current system for elections to the House of Representatives systematically enables gerrymandering and helps trap the Left inside the Democratic Party. We need proportional representation.
Norway’s radical-left party, Rødt, has recruited thousands of members in recent years and looks set to boost its scores in Monday’s election. Seher Aydar, MP, told Jacobin about how it’s building on discontent with the established parties.
Vivek Chibber on how we should understand capitalism’s middle strata — and why so many professionals are moving toward anti-capitalist politics.
What looks like Trump-era economic nationalism has deeper roots. German nationalists of the 1800s and fascist leaders of the 1930s imagined power through autarky — national self-sufficiency — with consequences that stretched from tariffs to conquest.
The election for general secretary of UNISON, Britain’s biggest trade union, pits a faithful ally of Keir Starmer against a left-wing challenger who was expelled from the Labour Party by his factional minions. It could be Starmer’s next big headache.
A proposed solution to the plastic pollution crisis, “chemical recycling,” is at best unproven and more likely disastrous for the environment. The EPA just removed the only regulatory obstacle to its widespread adoption.
Like past waves of automation, AI isn’t going away. Boom or bust, the fight is over whose interests it will serve.
France’s neoliberal government is expected to lose a confidence vote on Monday. For its opponents, the aim isn’t just to topple the current cabinet but to kill off President Emmanuel Macron’s whole austerity agenda.
Russian-speaking Ukrainians are among the main victims of Vladimir Putin’s invasion, and many have served in the Ukrainian army. The call to “decolonize” Ukraine by banishing Russian ignores this, imposing a vision of narrow cultural homogeneity.
Live entertainment giant Ticketmaster recently inserted language into its user agreements that steers customer lawsuits into a corporate-friendly private justice system, just months after a federal judge ruled its use of such processes was illegal.
Zionists often insist that the use of the word “genocide” to describe Israeli actions in Gaza cheapens other past crimes. Yet in both scale and in intent, Israel’s destruction of Gaza conforms closely to historic genocides.
The Trump administration has begun deporting immigrants to Eswatini, one of Africa’s smallest countries and its only absolute monarchy. The Eswatini king and his entourage are natural partners for Donald Trump in this shameful, dehumanizing project.
Thousands of workers at the JFK8 Amazon warehouse voted to unionize in 2022, sparking hope that we were witnessing a turning point for workers. The egregious union busting by Amazon that followed should have been a rallying cry for Democrats. It wasn’t.
Turkey and Israel have long called on their ally Britain to crack down on solidarity groups that threaten their imperial domination. Keir Starmer’s government is increasingly playing along.
Let’s get one thing straight: the Green Bay Packers are the only socialist team in the NFL.