Max Levitas (1915-2018)
Max Levitas was a towering figure of Britain’s labor movement. A hardened enemy of the Blackshirts in the years before World War II, the Irish-Jewish communist devoted nearly a century to fighting injustice.
19577 Articles by: Opal Lee
Opal Lee is a writer.
To Hell With “Innovation Specialists”
SEIU is looking for a new Silicon Valley-style innovation guru. But TED Talk wisdom is the last thing labor needs.
Local 804 Says No
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters leadership is trying to force a concessionary contract on a quarter-million UPS workers. Now there’s pushback.
Dress Rehearsals for Utopia
Liberals like to paint mass performance as totalitarian and repressive. But the festivals of revolutionary France gave the people a sense of its own power.
Canonization for the Masses
The Catholic Church’s canonization of Oscar Romero is a welcome embrace of faith for the many, not the few. But the martyred lay Catholics who fought and died for liberation in Central America deserve recognition, too.
Labour Has A Plan
Under Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party’s goal is to create nothing less than a twenty-first century democratic socialism.
A Departure With Consequences
Angela Merkel has announced she will not seek another term as Chancellor. The candidates lining up to replace her suggest the transition will be anything but smooth.
Yanis Varoufakis’s European Dreams
A row over Italy’s budget threatens to push the European Union into fresh chaos. Yanis Varoufakis told Jacobin about his plans to save the EU from itself.
Attacking Antisemitism
The Left must be clear that there is a small minority of elites who control the world, enrich themselves, and immiserate the many. But it’s not Jews — it’s the rich.
The Struggle For Rent Control
In California’s fight over Proposition 10, it’s Wall Street versus the working class.
The Debt We Owe Central America
The migrant caravan is full of people fleeing a world of inequality and violence that US elites helped create. We can’t turn our backs on them.
There is No “Mainstream” Conservatism
The line between the far right and “mainstream” conservatism is rapidly crumbling. But the two were never very far apart in the first place.
Should We Care About Inequality?
Since Occupy Wall Street, “inequality” has emerged as a central theme of progressive politics. Is that a good thing?
The Teachers’ Strike Wave Comes to Charter Schools
Chicago charter school educators are poised to strike. Their unionization and militant organizing show how teachers around the country can fight corporate education reform.
Socialists Must Reclaim Halloween
China Mieville on gothic Marxism, the Right’s strange appropriation of trick-or-treating, and socialists’ historic defense of the flagrantly imaginary.
Reading Marx on Halloween
Life under capitalism is the experience of horror — and there is no better guide to it than Karl Marx.
The Monster and the Final Girl
The new Halloween is a serviceable remake of a truly great horror film.
The Ghost in the Machine
As capitalism spread in South America, local people made sense of their misery by telling stories of devils, demons, and hauntings.
Witches and Class Struggle
In sixteenth-century Europe, witch-hunting was class war by the elite.
Naturalizing Fear
Trump wants to end birthright citizenship for children born in the US to non-citizens. His plan shows how little has been added to the stock of anti-immigrant rhetoric over the past century.