Opal Lee is a writer.
The Washington Post’s website — owned, of course, by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — became a giant native ad Tuesday for Amazon. Bezos is using the paper as his personal megaphone to push back against criticism over wages and working conditions.
The arrest of Bolivia’s post-coup president Jeanine Añez has been denounced by most Western governments. But the legal proceedings against the figures behind the 2019 coup aren’t an act of political persecution — they’re essential steps to protect the integrity of the democratic process.
Ofer Cassif, an Israeli member of the Knesset, talks to Jacobin about the “pyromaniac psychopath” Benjamin Netanyahu and why, as a Jewish politician, he joined the struggle for socialism and Palestinian liberation.
Many corporations made a big show of rejecting the GOP’s most reactionary leaders after the January 6 capitol riot. But records show that, post-riot, big business kept funneling millions to GOP groups to roll back voting rights.
The Australian Labor Party’s fossil fuel faction claims that Labor lost the Upper Hunter by-election because it didn’t back coal enthusiastically enough. But this strategy is the road to nowhere for workers and the ALP alike. To win back its lost supporters, the ALP must back a Green New Deal.
The Western media discourse gets it all wrong. Israel is not at risk of becoming an apartheid state — it already is one.
Nurses in Worcester, Massachusetts, have been on strike for 12 weeks — and now the company is threatening to permanently replace them. We spoke with the head of the Massachusetts Nurses Association about their struggle and the need for democratic, fighting unions.
According to a new Congressional Budget Office report, we’re set to spend well over a half a trillion dollars over the next decade on nuclear weapons. Yet we’re somehow told that Medicare for All is too expensive.
After an initial period of liberal euphoria around the Joe Biden presidency, reality is starting to set in. Maybe Biden isn’t burying the era of Democratic neoliberalism after all.
A slew of local laws passed during the pandemic slowed the avalanche of evictions around the country. Bankrolled by real-estate interests, Republicans want to restart kicking families out of their homes.
Central to Trader Joe’s corporate image is the idea that it is a vaguely progressive alternative to corporate grocery chains. But my time working at Trader Joe’s during the COVID-19 pandemic exposed how little the chain cared about the safety of workers like me.
Since releasing its budget substantially boosting welfare last week, leading figures in New Zealand’s Labour Party have been painting themselves as socialists overturning the country’s neoliberal order. But a closer look at the details shows how Labour plays a central role in that neoliberal order.
Rather than crushing their aspirations for freedom, Israeli brutality has united Palestinians more than in decades. Is a third intifada on the horizon?
As bombs continued to fall on Gaza last week, Palestinians joined together for a historic general strike, disrupting business as usual in Israel. But even more worker organization will be needed to end Israeli occupation.
In New York, gig work companies like Lyft and Uber are close to winning new legislation that will cement gig workers’ independent contractor status — with help from the state Democrats.
Palestinian leader Mustafa Barghouti talks to Jacobin about why the mass demonstrations of recent weeks are just the beginning of a renewed movement to free Palestine.
Former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn spoke to Jacobin about the fight for a Palestine free from occupation and why the Biden administration needs to end its military support for Israel.
Scenes of migrants swimming to Spain’s tiny North African enclave show how Europe outsources border control to peripheral countries like Morocco. This practice may shield militarized repression from scrutiny — but it can’t hide a climate crisis forcing millions of people to leave their homes.
Days after announcing a public-sector pay freeze, Jacinda Ardern’s government unveiled pro-union legislation. But salvation won’t come from above: unions in New Zealand will have to rebuild their power with class-conscious organizing.
Long working hours kill more than 700,000 people per year, even as millions are unable to find enough work to survive. The irrationality of capitalism has a human price.