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Liza Featherstone is a columnist for Jacobin, a freelance journalist, and the author of Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart.
Despite the organizing of thousands of federal workers and a growing grassroots opposition to Donald Trump, the Democratic Party leadership refuses to offer any serious opposition to a billionaire coup.
Up against a far worse assault on government and the basic components of democracy than in 2017, an opposition force to Donald Trump and Elon Musk may be cohering.
Former Bernie Sanders campaign chair Faiz Shakir is running an insurgent campaign for chair of the Democratic National Committee, focused on bringing the working class back into the party’s fold. Jacobin spoke to him about it.
Donald Trump’s return is a massive blow, but we can’t allow ourselves to wallow in despair. Getting through his second term will require more than therapy — it will require solidarity and action.
The War on Christmas isn’t fully a figment of Fox News’s imagination. But the villains are today’s capitalist Scrooges, relentlessly exploiting their workers with long hours and low wages through the holidays.
The collective outpouring of admiration for a young alleged assassin points to a gaping void in American politics.
It’s time for a mainstream movement against Trumpism.
In their despair at Donald Trump’s victory, liberal pundits are concluding that the masses, especially the working class, are irredeemably terrible. That’s apolitical nonsense.
The refrain from the Donald Trump campaign that Kamala Harris has a “low IQ” showcases the Right’s mainstreaming of quack racist pseudoscience.
Mainstream Democrats are moving away from identity politics — but the Right has doubled down.
With New York City’s corrupt and conservative mayor under federal indictment, New York State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani argues that it’s time for the Left to think big.
Many pundits and policymakers who have never seen combat but rarely see a war they don’t adore are now beating the drums for war on Iran.
Two things are happening in New York City at once: the Eric Adams administration is mired in police and corruption scandals, and New Yorkers are suffering greatly under austerity. It’s a perfect opportunity for a mayoral challenger from the Left.
The Uncommitted movement put forward Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman to speak on the horrors in Gaza at the DNC last month. The party refused to let her speak. We talked with her about the refusal and the future of the Democrats and Palestine.
The media was obsessed with comparing this year’s DNC to Chicago 1968. But given the party’s rejection of the Uncommitted movement, Atlantic City 1964, when Democrats refused to seat Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, is more apt.
Reactionary forces like AIPAC who want more death and misery in Gaza are going up against Rep. Cori Bush. Her reelection is a priority for progressive forces everywhere.
The growing calls for Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race could offer hope for Gaza.
Hudson Valley socialist Sarahana Shrestha’s strong record of opposing real estate interests was always going to invite corporate opposition. But now she faces a multiplication factor: her stance on the war in Gaza has drawn the ire of the pro-Israel lobby.
Tens of thousands have died in Gaza and millions face starvation. And Benjamin Netanyahu, the man responsible for it, is being welcomed to the US by Democratic leaders as a dignitary rather than a bloodthirsty maniac.
In numerous races across the country this year, Palestine is a key issue for voters. Popular opinion is on the side of a Gaza cease-fire, but pro-Israel billionaires are spending big to overcome that antiwar will.