Opal Lee is a writer.
Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party began life as a liberal opposition to Hungary’s Soviet-backed regime. But far from waging a generic fight for freedom, Orbán and his crony capitalist allies turned Hungary into the laboratory for a new far right.
Eugene Scalia has spent his career as a corporate lawyer fighting for the interests of capital. Now that he’s in line to run the Labor Department, Marx’s quip about the capitalist state as the executive committee of the bourgeoisie has never looked more accurate.
Boris Johnson, a friend of Steve Bannon and a self-declared enemy of Jeremy Corbyn’s “red-clawed socialism,” will be a disaster for working people.
With Boris Johnson as prime minister, a no-deal Brexit is a real possibility. The Left must start organizing now to avert it.
The threat is climate change, not immigration. Pro-migrant politics should be part of any effort to tackle the climate crisis.
Boris Johnson’s career has been one long romp of consequence-free irresponsibility. Now, as he faces an impossible Brexit and unprecedented public scrutiny, his lucky streak is about to end.
Brexit is giving the Lib Dems the opportunity to rebrand as a reforming, progressive party. But they’re still a force for privilege and austerity. New leader Jo Swinson will only make matters worse.
Kumail Nanjiani’s new Uber-based buddy flick, Stuber, says a lot about woke masculinity, economic precarity, and the death of the old-school “taxi movie.” It’s also not very good.
For forty years, the UAW has sought to act as management’s “partner” in running the auto industry. The results have been a disaster.
For decades, government policy helped make segregation worse. But we can use the power of the government to reverse it in the twenty-first century.
Defenders of Israel’s human rights abuses frequently attack critics for supposedly suppressing freedom of speech. But as the recent controversy at Williams College shows, it’s Palestine solidarity activists who face the highest risks when they speak out.
Electing Bernie Sanders president wouldn’t be enough to fight climate change. But his class-struggle politics give us the best chance we have to take on the fossil fuel companies.
The new era of financial capitalism, with its explosion of household debt and its dependence on complex derivatives, has caused fundamental changes in the way capital exploits labor.
Rich people love to give away money for charitable causes to convince you that they’re not so bad after all. Don’t be fooled: we need to dispossess the benevolent rich of their ill-gotten gains, too.
Beyond clichés about a “clash of civilizations,” a new book by French sociologist Fabien Truong illuminates the role of Islam in the lives of France’s poor and marginalized.
Is there a democratic road to socialism? And if so, what does it mean for socialists today?
Belle and Sebastian’s If You’re Feeling Sinister seems like a soundtrack of breezy lives of personal heartbreak and occasional triumph unencumbered by the larger troubles of the world. But the album is a direct product of Scotland’s welfare state.
An interview with Rabbi Brant Rosen, founder of the United States’s first openly non-Zionist temple.
Socialists aren’t usually mentioned in the history of US space travel. They should be: the history of radicals who believed space exploration and science in general should be in the service of the people is one the Left should reclaim.
Jeff Bezos says his space colonies will produce “a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.” But we already have millions of talented people here on Earth — the problem is, they’re toiling in obscurity for people like Bezos.