Opal Lee is a writer.
After the upsurges of the 1960s, a small but dedicated number of leftists decided to find jobs in industries like auto manufacturing with the intention of stoking radicalism on the job. Mark Levitan was one of them.
Leos Carax’s Annette, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, is audacious. But the film thwarts its own truth-telling ambitions by refusing to put its characters’ inner turmoils in dialogue with anything but themselves.
In a column for Jacobin, Jeremy Corbyn writes that we need class politics to transform our economies and save humanity from climate apocalypse. There’s no other way.
Xenophobic nationalism has assumed a central role in Italian political life in recent decades. But calls for the country’s Left to “reject Italian identity” are a dead end — and risk distancing it from its own popular traditions.
From its vicious occupation in the early 20th century to its military bases in the present, the US has long had a brutal, domineering relationship with the Philippines. And crucially, it’s depended on the labor of colonized Filipinos themselves.
Census data shows Americans are moving out of locales most insulated from climate change and into the most climate-threatened regions. The results could be disastrous in the near future.
Andrew Cuomo is on his way out. Socialist New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani talks about Cuomo’s history of bullying and blocking progressive bills, the role of the Democratic Socialists of America in Cuomo’s ouster, and new opportunities for left policy in New York.
Democrats missed a critical deadline to stop GOP gerrymandering. Now it will be full steam ahead on the Right’s undemocratic agenda.
If we’re serious about stopping impending climate disaster, we have no choice but to radically rein in one of the world’s worst polluters: the US military.
Summer camps create magical, self-contained worlds overflowing with play and human connection. All kids deserve the ability to have such experiences. All kids deserve camp.
Coal mining regions were central to Britain’s labor movement, and the industry’s decline has left a gaping hole. This social crisis and political vacuum made Boris Johnson’s election victory possible — but the Tories haven’t conquered the coalfields yet.
Australia has a long history of meddling in the affairs of its Pacific neighbors. In the Philippines, right-wing strongman Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” amounts to state terror — which Australia’s government has enthusiastically supported through military aid and legal advice.
From the struggle against Japanese rule in Korea to his work with China’s revolutionaries, Kim San lived a life committed to socialism and the struggle against imperialism. He deserves to be remembered today.
Mark Carney, ex-governor of the central banks in Canada and Britain, has written a much-hyped book about the problems with modern capitalism. But this consummate insider can’t trace the roots of those problems back to their fundamental sources.
New York’s commercial real estate sector is in crisis, as office workers are increasingly unwilling to come back into a physical office. It’s an opportunity to rethink what a city that serves its residents rather than commercial landlords could look like.
Seven Democratic senators voted with the GOP to block restrictions on fracking this week. Those seven Democrats also raked in $1.7 million in donations from oil and gas donors.
Andrew Cuomo’s downfall has discredited a host of liberal feminist activists who quietly advised the governor on his response to sexual harassment accusations.
From today, food platforms in Spain will have to recognize delivery riders as workers, not bogus self-employed contractors. But businesses are already defying the law — showing the need to break corporate control over the sector as a whole.
Today’s hearing increased the chance that Julian Assange could be extradited to the United States. Everyone concerned with defending democratic rights should be working to defend Julian Assange.