Rob McIntyre is a United Workers Union delegate at the Toll Kmart warehouse in Truganina.
Democrat Ricardo Lara is running for reelection as California state insurance commissioner in today’s primary. A new complaint alleges that he’s secretly accepting insurance industry donations after swearing them off — and it’s not the first time.
In the deindustrialized town of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, police recently killed a man having a mental health episode. Now residents are organizing to attack the deep social and economic ills that led to his death.
Social Democratic prime minister Mette Frederiksen has called on the Danish right to join her government and end her reliance on the Red-Green Alliance. The center-left in Denmark is rejecting socialism and embracing allies of big business instead.
For years, the ever-increasing militarization of US police forces has been cast by its defenders as an indispensable tool for dealing with large-scale violence and mass-casualty events. Since the Uvalde massacre last month, that rationale lies in tatters.
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
Our sports entertainment industry has become interlinked with gambling interests.
Western Sahara is Africa’s last colony, and its citizens live under a brutal occupation. The Biden administration and its counterparts in Europe are set to cement that reality for generations to come.
How Western finance uses the promise of critical infrastructure to loot Africa.
Drawing on the War on Terror’s model of drones and special forces deployments, the French government is keeping troops on the ground in Africa.
Economic woes that fueled last year’s unrest continue to hammer farmers and millions of others.
The Alden StaRRcar was a noble but failed attempt to combine the virtues of public and private transport.
Jacobin ranks the all-time best James Bond villain secret lairs.
In a staggering upset, Staten Island Amazon workers just won a union election. It’s the start of a new chapter for workers at one of the world’s most powerful companies
A December 2021 missive from managers at the Elmwood Avenue location of Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, after workers voted 18 to 9 in favor of unionizing, shared by Starbucks Workers United on Twitter.
Our favorite hijacking movies.
While certain writers or texts might fall afoul of polite society today, great writing can and will never stay canceled.
The metros in Kyiv and Kharkiv — Soviet-era “palaces of the people” — have doubled as bomb shelters during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
