The Beauty of the Blacklist
Pete Seeger sacrificed to fight the blacklist. How many of us would have done the same?
19224 Articles by: T Rivers
T Rivers is a pseudonymous journalist who covers East and Central Africa.
The Sound of the Small C
Pete Seeger represented a musical tradition that can’t be divorced from American radicalism.
Pete Seeger, American Communist
Seeger did good — because he was a communist, not in spite of it.
The Myth of the Moderate Republican
Liberal Republicanism’s collapse didn’t spring from some loss of decency in an age of polarization, but from the transformation of class struggle in America.
Thanks, Libertarians. But We’ve Got This
Let’s have a debate over the Left and the state. But not on the libertarians’ distorted terms.
Criminalizing Resistance
The state campaign against Rasmea Odeh is part of a broader attack on Palestinian activists.
Sharing and Caring
The “sharing economy” invokes vague leftist sentiments while moving towards more precarious employment.
California English
There’s a reason conservative critics want to limit the study of literature to aesthetic experience: any further analysis might become a gateway to a political awareness they fear.
Examining the Arab Gulf: Jadaliyya Interviews Jacobin Editors
Through petrodollar recycling and arms sales, Gulf states have melded seamlessly into US capital circuits.
Jacobin Radio South Africa, Ep. 1
Our first episode of Jacobin Radio South Africa — part of an international series of podcasts and terrestrial broadcast content
The Left and the State
When leftists set themselves up as defenders of government against libertarian hostility to the state, they unwittingly accept the Right’s framing of the debate.
Chicken Soup for the Neoliberal Soul
The problems of our time will be solved by our collective capacity to change the world, not self-therapy.
Teachers’ Unions and Democracy
No labor leader, no matter how dedicated, can substitute for a mobilized membership that exercises collective control of its union.
Breaking Promises
Obama’s “Promise Zones” anti-poverty program is a Trojan horse for deregulation.
The Schizophrenic State
The American government’s response to the 2007–8 financial crisis reveals an increasing tension between its domestic and global responsibilities.
My Brooklyn, Not Yours
Brooklyn nostalgia has done more than sell hot dogs and baseball memorabilia.
In Praise of White Elephants
Though easy targets for fiscal hawks, public architecture that’s luxurious and dramatic — even excessive — should be ours as a right.
Managing Bolivian Capitalism
Evo Morales’s administration has scored some successes, but it has failed to deliver on its more radical promises.
The Bad Kind of Unionism
When police unions have widened their gaze beyond issues like compensation and working conditions, it’s been almost exclusively to conservative ends.
Bahrain’s Fate
On Ibrahim Sharif and the misleadingly-dubbed “Arab Spring.”