Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Over the last few weeks across the US, pro-Palestine student protesters have faced harsh crackdowns from university administrators and police. At many campuses, labor unions have been coming to the protesters’ defense.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes never hits the highs of its half-century franchise. But the enduring power of the Apes’ postapocalyptic premise will keep us coming back for more.
The Village Voice was the “loud, open mouth” of New York. Could its equivalent exist today?
Since October 7, the French government has attempted to censor and criminalize pro-Palestine speech and protests in the name of combating antisemitism and terrorism. The repression has not stopped demonstrations of solidarity with Palestine.
Pro-war voices spent the past few days gleefully seizing on an erroneous report to claim that the UN had cut the death toll for Palestinian women and children in half. The lie is still spreading like wildfire as you read this.
The US has long outsourced meddling in Haiti to Global South countries. Recently Kenya has agreed to take over leading a US-backed multinational police intervention there — justifying its own “stabilization” mission with Pan-Africanist rhetoric.
Israel was founded with the Nakba, a series of atrocities that ethnically cleansed Palestinians from their homeland. Today we are witnessing Israel engage in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza on an even larger, more violent scale.
In the midst of a dire affordable housing crisis, landlords are also charging residents junk fees — which can include “benefits” that are not in tenants’ best interests, application and pest fees, and basic services to keep apartments habitable.
The bribery trial of New Jersey senator Bob Menendez gets underway this week. But he should have been investigated long ago for his links to Cuban American terrorists.
Choosing to be a leftist means that you are going to lose a lot. And losing a lot is not easy. How can we keep fighting while also acknowledging the emotional toll of losing over and over and over again?
In the 1920s, August Thalheimer was the most important theorist of Germany’s Communist movement. He stood for an independent workers’ movement that forged a path beyond conservative social democracy and authoritarian Stalinism.
During Romania’s transition to capitalism, the Jiu Valley miners violently resisted the destruction of their industry. But today, their jobs are mostly gone — and the plague of slot machines has taken over long-proud mining communities.
Even as union density has declined, unions have spent little on organizing while amassing vast war chests. But the UAW and Workers United are showing that spending big on strikes and organizing pays off.
Confronted with a deepening housing affordability crisis across the country, some US legislators are turning to the successful social housing programs of countries like Austria and Singapore. We spoke to two of them, from Hawaii and California.
Indie rock legend Steve Albini, who died on Tuesday, knew his industry as a musician, critic, and recording engineer. His rebellion against corporate labels was rooted in a deeply held philosophy: that every musician is a worker.
Guatemalan indigenous activist Rigoberta Menchú helped set the tone and forge the climate that convicted the rabidly anti-communist general Efraín Rios Montt and condemned many others guilty of genocide during the country’s brutal civil war.
Can the new models of union organizing coming out of recent high-profile campaigns like Starbucks be a potential way to capture the current upsurge of support for and interest in unions? Labor scholar Eric Blanc thinks they can.
A new book shows how a tight-knit group of left-wing Labour politicians emerged from the politics of the 1970s, eventually taking control of the party under Jeremy Corbyn. If they could topple Blairism, then today’s Labour left can take on Starmerism.
Recent crackdowns on free assembly are a reminder that the state will always finish first in deplatforming contests. Parts of Canada’s Online Harms Bill may be a massive overreach that chills speech at the worst time possible.
Rather than acting as a check on the powerful, media outlets like CNN and MSNBC are allowing police to give their interpretation of student Palestine protests with few challenges, even in cases where police are blatantly lying or distorting the truth.