Class War on the Final Frontier
The Outer Worlds isn’t quite a socialist video game. But it’s close.
19098 Articles by: T Rivers
T Rivers is a pseudonymous journalist who covers East and Central Africa.
Radical Academics for the Status Quo
Judith Butler donating to Kamala Harris? Martha Nussbaum supporting John Hickenlooper? You can learn as much about a radical academic’s ideas by searching their campaign contributions as by reading their books.
We Need Broadband Internet for All
Without massive public investment, there would be no internet. Bernie Sanders’s broadband plan would take the first steps towards returning the internet to its rightful owners, the public, so everyone can have reliable, high-speed broadband.
Against the Odds, AMLO Has Made Gains in His First Year
It’s been a year since Andrés Manuel López Obrador took power in Mexico. Against the odds, his administration has won a host of important progressive victories. But it’ll need to do more to withstanding pressure from Washington and the more conservative parts of the MORENA coalition.
100 Years Ago, the First Red Scare Tried to Destroy the Left
The first Red Scare that began a century ago with the Palmer Raids wasn’t rooted in irrational hysteria. The government agencies that carried out the raids had an unambiguous goal: to destroy the radical left in the United States.
Democratizing the UAW
The United Auto Workers has devolved into a stagnant, often corrupt union. It’s in desperate need of a democratic rejuvenation.
Medicare for All Isn’t Tanking Warren
It is not Medicare for All that has sunk Elizabeth Warren’s campaign — it’s Elizabeth Warren who is sinking the Medicare for All campaign.
Bill Shorten Is Not Jeremy Corbyn
For both the Australian and British Labor Parties, 2019 was a year of defeat. Neoliberals in both countries drew a trite, predictable conclusion: Jeremy Corbyn and Bill Shorten were too radical. Not only are the parties incomparable, but the Australian example proves that a centrist would have lost just as badly.
Modi Might Have Finally Gone Too Far
With the ongoing mass protests to Modi’s anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act, India is at last seeing a real challenge to right-wing Hindu nationalism.
Denmark’s Shameful Ghetto Plan
Denmark’s “ghetto plan” promises harsher policing of districts with high unemployed and ethnic-minority populations and selling off the public housing where they live. The Social Democrats’ shameful policy shows that anti-immigrant chauvinism isn’t a way of defending the welfare state — it’s an instrument of privatization.
Warrencare Doesn’t Deserve to Be Called “Medicare for All”
Warrencare and Petecare are, as proposed, structurally identical. Why do pundits insist on calling Elizabeth Warren’s health care plan “Medicare for All”?
Why the Latest Uprising in Iran Matters
Mass protests kicked off in Iran last month over an increase in fuel prices, resulting in a government crackdown in which over 7,000 protesters were arrested and 200 killed. An Iranian trade unionist explains what these protests have looked like on the ground and why leftists should support them.
A Progressive Foreign Policy for Africa
For too long, military force and myopic power plays have dominated US foreign policy toward Africa. We need an entirely different approach — one that allows ordinary Africans the space to build a more just and democratic continent.
Joe Biden Will Lose a General Election to Donald Trump
If you want to beat Donald Trump, there is one safe bet — and it’s not Joe Biden, it’s Bernie Sanders.
Malta’s Offshore Economy Is Corruption’s Greatest Ally
The murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia provided a harrowing demonstration of Malta’s toxic nexus of political and corporate power. But the fight against corruption can’t rely on moral outrage alone — it has to free the mass of people from an economic model based on endemic patronage.
Never Trump Conservatives Still Aren’t Real
The much mythologized Republican resistance to Donald Trump is, and has always been, a media creation. Its only purpose is to perpetuate Beltway fairy tales of American exceptionalism and high-minded bipartisanship.
“It’s Important to Talk About the Role That Capital Plays in the Justice System”
Mik Pappas is a Pittsburgh district judge. He’s also a socialist. In an interview, he explains what it means to be approach the criminal justice system from the left.
Why Impeachment Matters
A Trump reelection is the worst-case scenario, and the Left needs to be part of the struggle to prevent it. Impeachment is part of that struggle.
“The Police Know Guerrilla Warfare”
The violent state of US policing cannot be understood apart from the country’s Cold War crusade. During those decades, cops at home and military personnel abroad exchanged techniques and tactics to mete out repression and thwart leftist insurgencies.
US Interests Have Had Their Sights Set on the NHS from the Beginning
With the UK’s National Health Service now in the hands of a Tory government, the US health-care industry will look to exploit every opportunity to squeeze profits out of the system. But this is nothing new: the US has always had its sights set on the NHS.