Selling Out Our Values
Denmark’s general election is set to produce the most left-wing parliament in decades. But the country’s Social Democrats have disgraced themselves with anti-immigrant rhetoric.
20407 Article(s) by: Ryan Switzer
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Tiananmen, 30 Years Later
30 years ago, the Chinese government began its massacre of hundreds of student and worker activists at Tiananmen Square. The government wants to erase this history from memory, because they fear students and workers again taking to China’s streets.
“Worker Power Is a Threat to the Way the University Is Run”
Graduate workers at the University of Chicago are on strike this week. They’re demanding union recognition from an administration that is relying on a Trump-appointed labor board’s hostility to workers to deny graduate workers’ organizing rights.
Corbyn Stands up to Trump
Jeremy Corbyn has snubbed Donald Trump’s visit to London, earning him predictable criticism from the British media. Who cares? Corbyn is on the right side of history.
In West Virginia’s Education Wars, “We Can’t Play Nice”
Yet again in West Virginia, Republicans are seeking to privatize schools and stop teachers strikes. A West Virginia teacher explains how educators are yet again mobilizing to stop it — and why “there’s nothing to compromise on.”
The Forgotten Socialists of Tiananmen Square
What the world remembers about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were the students. But above all, it was a mass workers’ uprising for socialist democracy.
Outsourcing Repression
Bolsonaro doesn’t need an open military dictatorship to crush his opponents. As the “Colombian model” demonstrates, he can lean on violent paramilitaries to do the dirty work for him.
A British Suffragette in America
British suffragette and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst didn’t just want to talk to “society ladies” about the right to vote. She wanted the women’s movement to be part of a broader emancipatory project.
The Irony of Soviet Modernism
How a 1975 blockbuster satirized the spread of a typical high-rise.
Rebuilding the Social City
To solve the housing crisis, we may have to go back to the future.
The Unmaking of the British Working Class
Margaret Thatcher described Right to Buy as ‘one of the most important revolutions of the century.’ She was right. And we’re still living with the consequences.
The Homeownership Trap
Millions have already faced the dark side of the American Dream. Is there a way to stabilize and democratize homeownership?
Homeless People Don’t Need an App, They Need a Fucking House
It’s really not complicated. Homeless people need homes. So we should give them homes.
The Cooperative Option
Mutual aid cooperatives in Latin America give us a glimpse of what democratic social housing could look like.
The Zombie-Investor Apocalypse
There’s no use in asking why vacant housing and homelessness exist despite the presence of the super-wealthy. These issues exist directly because of them.
We Once Had the Answers
Sweden’s social democrats managed to solve a housing crisis and build a million homes in less than a decade. Why, then, is the Miljonprogrammet maligned today?
How to Solve the Housing Problem
The size of the housing crisis can be daunting, but with a committed political movement and a little bit of state power, it can be confronted.
Going Up the Country
The New Left and the “back-to-the-land” movement.
