William G. Martin teaches at SUNY-Binghamton and is co-author of After Prisons? Freedom, Decarceration, and Justice Disinvestment (2016) and a founding member of Justice and Unity for the Southern Tier; he covers local justice matters at www.justtalk.blog
Yesterday afternoon, UAW president Shawn Fain announced a surprise strike at one of the Big Three’s most lucrative plants, mobilizing workers who, despite coping with economic hardship, have been eagerly waiting in the wings to join the picket lines.
As Israel launches a brutal assault on Gaza with US aid, it’s important for Americans to stand in solidarity with the Palestinians — and to avoid lazy thinking that treats them as a single collective entity thinking and acting in lockstep.
This week Australia will vote in a referendum on creating an independent Indigenous Voice body to advise parliament. The no campaign has used every trick in the right-wing playbook, and the Labor-led yes campaign has been ineffective in pushing back.
The public sector in Quebec is under attack from the province’s center-right government. In response, unions representing over 420,000 public sector workers have formed a coalition — and could soon launch what would be the largest strike in Canada’s history.
Writing in Jacobin, the UN’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories argues that the shocking ongoing violence we’re seeing shows the illegal status quo is brutalizing Palestinians while failing to protect Israeli civilians.
Elected officials in Cincinnati are considering a lucrative deal with rail executives that would sell one of the last publicly owned stretches of rail line in the US to Norfolk Southern, the company behind the disastrous train derailment in Ohio last winter.
The Federal Trade Commission has taken Amazon to court over monopolistic practices. The trial is demonstrating just how much market power the corporate behemoth wields — and that we probably need more than meager antitrust law to rein it in.
Israel is bombarding Gaza, slaughtering civilians en masse and vowing to turn it into a “city of tents” following this weekend’s horrific violence. An immediate cease-fire to end the cycle of bloodshed couldn’t be more urgent.
Left denunciations of “Keynesianism” often seem obvious and self-evident. But socialist economic analysis has had more to do with Keynes’s ideas than usually acknowledged.
Israel has long preferred force to peace, segregation to equality. Its brutal air strikes on Gaza are a continuation of that policy — and will do nothing to bring peace and dignity to civilians on both sides.
Israel’s backers in the US and Western Europe claim to be opposed to violence. But they’ve done everything they can to shut down or criminalize nonviolent action by Palestinians and their supporters, from international legal cases to the BDS movement.
Democratic socialist politicians like Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib are right about the violence in Israel and Palestine: we should both be mourning civilian deaths and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation.
Remember the policy “nudges” of the Barack Obama years, which purported to fix all manner of social ills by pushing people to behave differently? Surprise, surprise: its intellectual edifice, behavioral science, has been exposed as a fraud.
New temporary House speaker Patrick McHenry is a puppet of the financial, real estate, and debt collection industries, gladly taking 90 percent of his campaign cash from lobbyists in exchange for advocating blanket deregulation.
Two years after his 1982 album Nebraska, Bruce Springsteen released Born in the U.S.A. Together, they provided a tragic-romantic view of the working class in Reagan-era America.
The September 30 election in Slovakia was widely reported as a win for “pro-Moscow candidate” Robert Fico. But the Left should listen to the working-class voters who rallied behind Fico’s party — and understand that the vote wasn’t just about Ukraine.
In an interview, veteran anti-apartheid fighter Ronnie Kasrils details his years in exile from South Africa, his efforts recruiting and training activists around the world, and the crucial role of this international contingent in defeating apartheid.
On October 3, 500 Indian police officers detained almost a hundred journalists and researchers. It’s an attack on the Left and press freedom that must be resisted.
Nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, have now been on strike for two months, demanding that the hospital increase pay and address short-staffing issues that ultimately hurt the quality of care.
New research finds that Americans without college degrees live roughly eight and a half years fewer than their college-educated counterparts. Being working class in America means being ground down and left behind, explaining the rise of “deaths of despair.”