Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Canadian Pension Funds, profiting off substandard elderly care, are like snakes eating their own tails. Fund managers shovel eldercare profits into investments intended to benefit the elderly — but retirees can’t profit off their own immiseration.
Last year’s modest wage gains have been wiped out by inflation, and prices are up across the board. Meanwhile, the rich are living large on superyachts and private islands — and they’re coming for working Americans’ last scraps of wealth.
Today is the 19th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. It was a catastrophic, illegal, murderous war — and Joe Biden was one its most important cheerleaders.
Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour is a novel for our time of uncertainty.
We may be exhausted by the effects of the pandemic, but the desire to return to business as usual is a blind alley. The pandemic is simply one facet of the broader crises we face — crises that were forged in yesterday’s normal.
School districts are facing a dire shortage of paraeducators, making it impossible to provide services to which students are legally entitled. For the good of paraeducators and students alike, it’s time for fair compensation.
The criminal Russian invasion has devastated cities around Ukraine and forced millions to flee the country. Achieving a cease-fire is top priority — but the war has already brought changes that will echo for decades to come.
Critics often say the working class doesn’t fight back against exploitation because it’s confused about its real interests. But this ignores how capitalism itself leads workers to resign themselves to their situation — and how we can overcome that resignation.
The Tennessee Valley Authority recently opted to invest in more fossil fuel generation, not less. Joe Biden can reverse the TVA’s decision, if he wants to.
Squid Game, My Name, and D.P. all represent a growing trend of radical Korean television. Critics have attacked these shows for their vulgarity, but the violence they depict holds a mirror up to Korean society.
Pierre Poilievre, backed by anti-vaxxers, crypto bros, and far-right populists, is the leading candidate for Canada’s Conservative Party. If elected, Poilievre, who has described Canada’s welfare state as “horrific,” will wage war on social programs.
Verizon workers seeking to unionize in Washington state say the company just brought in executives to intimidate them.
Anti-Russian boycotts in the West are hitting even outspoken opponents of Vladmir Putin’s war. Collective punishment is deeply unfair — and only hardens Putin’s grip over Russians.
In his inaugural address, Chile’s new socialist president Gabriel Boric salutes “comrade Salvador Allende,” remembers the horrors of the Pinochet dictatorship, and pledges to fight social inequality.
For decades, unions in Australia have suffered declining membership. The solution is not a new app or social media campaign, but a laser-focus on organizing the unorganized.
Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is a horrific, unconscionable act. NATO’s expansionist policy made such an invasion more likely. Both of these things are true.
Happy St Patrick’s Day! Here’s a 1916 article by Eugene Debs denouncing the British government for executing Irish socialist James Connolly and calling for a revolution to “sweep landlordism and capitalism and oppression from the Emerald Isle.”
Joe Biden touted himself as friend of veterans while on the campaign trail. But now he’s overseeing the continued privatization of the VA and backing nominees that brag about being venture capitalists.
As Vladimir Putin prosecutes his brutal war in Ukraine, Western governments and tech companies have apparently decided the best way to fight Putin is to join him — engaging in censorship and propagandizing reminiscent of the autocrat’s own repressive actions.
California’s San Mateo County is home to both a booming biotech industry and a large working-class immigrant community. Democratic socialist James Coleman is running for state assembly to represent workers and their families against corporate interests.