Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
German right-wing tabloid Bild ran a smear campaign against civil servant Melanie Schweizer because of her solidarity with Palestine — and then she was fired. She told Jacobin what her case says about the reality of free speech in Germany.
Argentina’s biggest football stars, from Maradona to Messi, got their start in the country’s ubiquitous neighborhood sports clubs. These community centers urgently need government support, not the ruthless privatization on offer from far-right president Javier Milei.
The unconventional artistic rebellion of surrealism may seem a long way removed from the sober, disciplined work of Marxist revolutionaries. But French writer Pierre Naville brought surrealism and Marxism together amid the turmoil of interwar Europe.
European leaders claim to be champions of the liberal international order that Donald Trump is repudiating. But they’re lining up with Trump to support the resumption of Israel’s murderous onslaught against Palestinian civilians.
Poorer Americans work long hours to afford basic necessities. Richer Americans work long hours in pursuit of “the good life” that’s perpetually just beyond their grasp. All of this tedious work is a waste of our precious time and resources.
As an election looms, Mark Carney is the face of Canada’s Liberal Party comeback — and the latest figure to stand between the country and Trump-era fallout. He may also be its first casualty.
A newly released memo from the banking giant Wells Fargo outlines a predatory scheme to dismantle the USPS: sell off profitable parts, slash union jobs, and raise prices by up to 140 percent.
It is strategically and morally necessary for labor unions to fight Trump’s attacks on freedom of speech, writes painters’ union president Jimmy Williams Jr. That means standing up for Mahmoud Khalil.
Whether the target was communists in the 1950s or pro-Palestine activists today, university administrators have always worked to keep academia in line.
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War, the largest European uprising before the French Revolution, in which peasants seized upon the radical implications of Martin Luther’s theology to challenge a hierarchical social order.
The pending deportation of Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil has also had echoes in France. Both establishment and far-right politicians are calling for Rima Hassan, a French Palestinian member of the European Parliament, to be stripped of her citizenship.
Elon Musk is wrecking the government. If he read Marxist state theory, he’d at least understand how it works.
Since Tuesday, Israeli forces have killed over 600 Palestinians and wounded more than 10,000 others, and Israeli politicians are crystal clear in their articulation of their plan to complete their ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
In his new book, labor scholar Eric Blanc offers illuminating case studies of recent union victories. But it’s not clear that “worker-to-worker unionism” amounts to a widely applicable “emergent model” of unionism that can save the labor movement.
If you’re hoping Social Security will avoid devastating cuts with the confirmation of Donald Trump’s nominee for Social Security Administration head, Frank Bisignano, we have some bad news about his track record.
Roubaix used to be home to France’s textile industry — but doesn’t have the same battalions of factory labor as it once did. For France Insoumise, the challenge is to rebuild the Left’s roots in working-class communities.
Bernie Sanders says it over and over again: 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Centrist critics swear this is false. Once we sort through the noise, we see Bernie is right on the money.
Since the early 1980s, Canada’s economy has expanded significantly, with GDP per capita rising by 70% in real terms. But while the wealthiest Canadians’ incomes have increased fivefold, those of the bottom half have risen just 1.5 times.
In the 1930s, the French realist filmmakers found a way to speak to and fight against the rising authoritarianism in their country and the world.
Mahmoud Khalil, who has been detained and targeted for deportation by the Trump administration for speaking out about the atrocities in Gaza, dictated a letter to the public from his detention cell in Louisiana. Jacobin publishes the letter here in full.