Why We Want to Abolish Billionaires
Hard work doesn’t get you a billion dollars — rent extraction, financial speculation, resource monopolization, and exploiting working people does. We don’t envy the superrich, we want to stop them.
19251 Articles by: T Rivers
T Rivers is a pseudonymous journalist who covers East and Central Africa.
“They May Have the Power to Imprison Me, but No One Has the Power to Keep Me in Prison”
Turkish novelist Ahmet Altan was just released from prison after spending three years incarcerated on trumped-up charges. In an interview with Jacobin, Altan discusses his new memoir, his arrest, and the Erdoğan government’s war on dissent.
The Lib Dems Are at It Again
With their stance on Brexit and their refusal to partner with Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour in any post-election government, Britain’s Liberal Democrats are once again playing to their historic strengths: brazen opportunism and selling out their own voters.
There Is No Way Forward Without Organized Workers
Corporate leaders, reactionary Republicans, and neoliberal Democrats have told Americans to keep lowering their expectations — a better world isn’t possible. They’re wrong. But we’ll only be able to win that improved world by mobilizing workers.
Teacher Resistance Comes to Australia
Teachers in New South Wales, Australia are taking inspiration from their counterparts in the United States and adopting a militant posture in defense of their livelihoods and students.
Beto’s Fifteen Minutes Are Over. And Not a Moment Too Soon.
In less than six months, Beto O’Rourke made the journey from national celebrity to forgettable centrist. We won’t miss him, and neither should you.
Medicare for All Is a Strategy
Medicare for All is not just about fixing our broken health-care system. It’s about unlocking the power of a mass, working-class movement in the United States.
Would It Not Be Simpler to Primary the People, and Nominate Another?
Centrists like Jonathan Chait are warning that the Democrats are moving too far left, jeopardizing their ability to beat Trump. Don’t listen to them: they’re just mad at how much the ground has shifted under their feet.
Michael Moore Was Right
Mocked and derided for his impassioned defense of poor and working people, Michael Moore is finally being vindicated. He hasn’t changed his tune. The political culture’s just catching up with him.
You Have to See Parasite
The brilliance of Parasite doesn’t lie in any political allegory it weaves, but instead in its depiction of the cruel realities of trying to make it in a capitalist system set against you. Everyone should go see it.
Is Democracy Doomed?
Research shows that the organized working class, and industrial workers in particular, have been the driving force for democracy around the world. The question is whether the erosion of the industrial working class will weaken our prospects for democratic politics.
Joe Biden’s Fascist Friends Should Worry Us More Than Tulsi’s
For all the Democratic Party’s warnings about Trump’s far-right friends, it’s home to an alarming number of supporters of India’s quasi-fascist prime minister Narenda Modi. One of them is a top staffer to Joe Biden. That’s a big problem.
Rationalizing Israel’s Occupation
Meir Shamgar, former chief justice of Israel’s Supreme Court, died last month. A founding father of Israel’s legal system, he used judicial subterfuge to give legal cover to the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands.
We’re Striking to Save Britain’s Universities
The University and College Union has called an eight-day strike across Britain’s universities starting on November 25. Inspired by teachers in the United States, British educators are fighting to save the education system — and put a stop to privatization.
“Syriza Let Us Down — But We Can Still End Austerity”
In this summer’s Greek elections Yanis Varoufakis’s DiEM25 movement won parliamentary representation for the first time. MP Sofia Sakorafa told Jacobin how the party is challenging Syriza — and rekindling the fight against European austerity.
In Striking, Chicago Teachers Went on the Offense for Public Schools
Chicago public school teachers and staff didn’t get everything they wanted in their recent strike. But they managed to both win the battle and break new ground in the teachers’ strike wave throughout the United States.
Nationalization Is as American as Apple Pie
Nationalization might seem like an alien idea in the hyper-capitalist United States. But the country has a long history of nationalizing all sorts of industries — and we should revive that tradition today.
Elizabeth Warren Is Jeopardizing Our Fight for Medicare for All
Whatever her intentions, Elizabeth Warren’s plan to finance Medicare for All has made winning single-payer far more complicated than it should be — and jeopardized a wildly popular policy that should be a political slam dunk in the process.
How Poland’s Failed Transition Fed the Nationalist Right
Throughout Poland’s transition to capitalism, no party challenged a neoliberal consensus that produced soaring unemployment and mass emigration. But as the promises of 1989 crumble, it’s the nationalist right that’s channeling discontent.
Another East Germany Was Possible
The scenes of thousands of East Germans passing through the Berlin Wall crossing on November 9, 1989 are remembered as the end of the Cold War. But on November 4, almost a million had demonstrated for reform — and they wanted to create democratic socialism on East German soil.