Another World Is Possible With Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Two hundred French educators explain why they’re supporting Jean-Luc Mélenchon in tomorrow’s presidential election.
19118 Articles by: Ryan Switzer
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Criminalizing Anti-Austerity in Ireland
Irish activists won major concessions against water privatization. Now, the state is looking to imprison them.
Trump’s Predictable Rise
Trump’s election isn’t cause for reassessing politics as we know it. Shifts in the economy and political parties created an easy opening for him.
Center-Left in No Man’s Land
The difficulties facing Benoît Hamon’s campaign reveal a French Socialist Party being outflanked on its right and left.
Duke Nukem’s Dystopian Fantasies
It’s hard to think of a piece of media that understands itself less than Duke Nukem 3D.
Iran’s Past and Present
Why has the history of Iran’s left been erased?
The Dangers of Detoxification
The FN’s new image doesn’t mean the far-right party had a change of heart — it means the mainstream has accepted its program.
Between Vichy and the Republic
The National Front hasn’t changed. It just learned how to articulate its longstanding racism and xenophobia with mainstream French republican discourse.
The Jobless Economy
The US economy is creating a historically low level of jobs. But robots aren’t the culprit.
Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
On this day in 1943, a band of Jewish resistance fighters launched an armed insurrection against the Nazis. They were proud socialists and internationalists.
The Left Must Save Labour
The British left’s task isn’t to win the next general election — it’s to fight for the survival of the Labour Party itself.
Living for the City
Marshall Berman’s Modernism in the Streets is a final testament to his delicately intimate, thoroughly urban Marxism.
For a Free Guiana
French Guiana has taken to the streets to protest decades of underinvestment and neglect.
Is Socialism Eurocentric?
Both capitalist exploitation and workers’ resistance look fundamentally similar all over the world. Within the West and outside of it, socialism speaks to those experiences.
Winning Power, Not Just Government
For twenty-five years, European left parties have joined broad coalition governments and come out with nothing to show for it.
The Mélenchon Factor
The establishment’s panicked reaction to Mélenchon should convince us that he stands a real chance of winning.
Ten Thoughts on the Turkish Referendum
Even after his victory yesterday in Turkey’s referendum, President Erdoğan is much weaker than he appears.
Fights We Can Win
Want Medicare For All? Look to the Dutch Socialist Party for inspiration.
Asian Poverty and the “Model Minority”
Treating Asians in the US as a wealthy monolith papers over their wildly divergent economic situations.
Overhauling French Politics
At stake in Sunday’s French election is the specter of the far right, the neoliberalism of the extreme center, and Mélenchon’s challenge to the system itself.