Jacobin Radio South Africa, Ep. 2
On the Democratic Alliance party and the failures South African liberalism.
19186 Articles by: Ryan Switzer
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Venezuelan Jacobins
Only the Venezuelan sans culottes can save the Bolivarian Revolution.
The Right’s Challenge to Chavismo
The Venezuelan Right appears to be building the kind of mass movement that could reverse the gains of the Bolivarian Revolution.
Bloodless Liberals
A concern for human life, not international law, should drive opposition to the US “targeted killing” program.
Which Side Is Your Pension On?
The failure of unions to gain control over their pension funds gives insight into corporate-controlled finance and the obstacles to democratizing it.
Uncommon CORE
The 2012 Chicago Teachers Union strike would have never come to be without the patient building of a radical formation within the union, the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators.
On Fredric Jameson
Jameson writes from an immense sense of engagement with the world around him, and with faith in what that engagement might accomplish.
Trotsky in Cuba
Like his narrator in The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura has been made to matter less than he should.
Michelle Goldberg Goes to Washington
The problem isn’t just voting for Democrats, it’s letting a rightward-moving Democratic Party set the Left’s political horizons.
Vanessa Redgrave at the Oscars
When an Israel boycott showed up on the red carpet.
The Death of American Universities
As universities move towards a corporate business model, precarity is being imposed by force.
Crocodile Tears of the Wolf
The Wolf of Wall Street‘s eleventh hour Hail Mary doesn’t atone for the rest of the film’s gleeful celebration of rich assholes.
Grieve to Win
A well-organized grievance campaign can help build teacher unions at the most important level: in the schools.
Retooling the UAW
Even if the UAW had won in Tennessee, another conversation is needed about the kind of organization the union has become.
Chokwe Lumumba: A Revolutionary to the End
Chokwe Lumumba (1947–2014).
Unionize College Football
The Northwestern University football team’s struggle to form a union raises the question of what it means to be a worker.
The Work of Public Work
Going beyond the boundaries of the Ivory Tower is a good thing. But public engagement is still work.
Is Venezuela Burning?
Only a deepening of the Bolivarian Revolution can save it.
Arresting the Carceral State
Educators must work to end the school-to-prison pipeline.
Lessons from Chattanooga
Workers need a functioning, relevant Left with feet both inside and outside unions.