T Rivers is a pseudonymous journalist who covers East and Central Africa.
We have to say, repeatedly, to everyone who will listen and everyone who tries not to: the hatred and murder we saw in Pittsburgh is the product of a political project of the Right. We have to transform our rage into solidarity and collective action against that project.
A new report from a Swiss wealth management company documents the relentless rise of the global billionaire class. Here are some highlights — translated into plain English.
The residents of Squirrel Hill refuse to become debilitated in their grief. The world beyond them should do the same.
The Trump administration is pushing a vicious anti-trans agenda. Unions are one of the best tools we have to fight back.
Karl Marx didn’t believe the working class would automatically end capitalism. He believed that actively engaging in class struggle can change workers’ consciousness — and change the world.
The NBA salary cap doesn’t benefit players or the fans — it lines the pockets of billionaire team owners.
Brazil has a fascist presidential frontrunner. Here are 20 of Jair Bolsonaro’s most racist and reactionary statements.
The far right is on the rise not only in Brazil but across Latin America — driven by the middle class that left-wing governments helped create.
Jair Bolsonaro represents the rise of an authoritarian neoliberalism in Brazil and across the world. If he’s elected president, Brazilian democracy could collapse.
France Insoumise’s Farida Amrani is the frontrunner to replace France’s former prime minister Manuel Valls as MP for Évry. Jacobin spoke to her in an exclusive interview.
To demand an end to Louisiana’s giveaways to ExxonMobil, Baton Rouge school employees this week took an extraordinary step: they voted to go on a political strike.
Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez is a democratic socialist running for Chicago city council. In this interview, she explains how austerity forced her to leave her native Puerto Rico, her vision for building working-class power in Chicago, and how to seize our “historic opportunity” to fight for socialism.
Attempts to fix America’s health care crisis that aren’t universal, simple, and don’t eliminate private insurance are doomed to fail. We need a Medicare for All plan that covers everyone, period.
There aren’t many European presidents who’d quote Marxist economists or praise Fidel Castro. But Ireland’s Michael D. Higgins is widely backed across the political spectrum.
The Trump administration is attacking trans people’s right to access society as a whole. In response, socialists must make trans emancipation a principle of our movement.
The White House’s ridiculous anti-socialist report claims the Nordics have a lower standard of living than Americans. But when properly measured, Nordic consumption actually beats the US.
Lyft is the latest brand trying to build market share by posing as a “progressive” corporation. But the fight can’t be good corporations against bad ones — it’s working people against capitalism.
Max Zirngast, a Jacobin contributor and socialist activist, has been imprisoned in Turkey for more than a month. Here’s how you can help.
As climate disaster looms, the Democrats are dodging the issue. Only a mass movement demanding action can force them to change.
Donald Trump’s economic advisers released a bizarre report attacking socialism yesterday. Socialists can only take one lesson from it: we’re winning.