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
Philip Cunliffe’s analysis of world politics after globalization takes the phony rhetoric of leaders like Tony Blair at face value instead of digging deeper. As a result, he can’t make sense of what globalism actually was or what is going to replace it.
Larry Summers has been forced to step back from public life after revelations about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. His moment of disgrace comes after decades of work promoting economic policies that have had a devastating impact on countless people.
European governments that have pledged to clamp down on immigration are still expanding schemes for workers to come on short-term visas. Their goal is to maximize predatory exploitation of migrant workers without giving them any rights or security.
A population that cannot afford to stay in one place cannot build civic associations, and a society without civic associations cannot resist concentrated power.
Reporting from Yarmouk — the devastated Palestinian refugee district on the edge of Damascus — Jacobin follows the Palestinian House, a grassroots reconstruction initiative, as it leads efforts to dig wells and restore water in a camp abandoned by the state.
Whoever comes out on top of the scramble to gobble up Warner Bros. Discovery, media consumers will lose out as a smaller and smaller number of rich people determine what our media looks like.
Rob Reiner and his wife were killed yesterday. While Donald Trump tweets out a disgraceful, mocking memorial, we’re celebrating a man who made a decade of great cinema as well as a liberal mensch who stood in stark contrast to the inhuman cruelty of MAGA.
Aber Kawas is a Palestinian American community organizer and socialist running for New York assembly. We talked to her about her family history with ICE, the Palestine movement’s turn to electoral politics, and advancing an affordability agenda.
Donald Trump is aiming to restore US supremacy in the western hemisphere through presidential will, military power, and emergency authority, unconstrained by Congress or international law — a strategic reorientation that runs through Puerto Rico.
Only one in ten American voters want a bigger military budget. Congress keeps approving massive spending increases anyway, as it did when it voted for a nearly $1 trillion military budget last week.
Cities stopped building not by accident but by design. Our housing system is constructed on scarcity, speculation, and private veto power.
From Milwaukee’s sewer socialists to La Guardia’s New Deal metropolis, urban reformers changed their cities by forging alliances beyond local power.
In the 1970s, the Italian Communist Party was again on the rise in Tuscany. Then it all toppled over.
The hard part is over. The harder part is about to start.
Everything you need to take over your city.
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“When the state can’t deliver, people stop believing in collective solutions altogether.”
Jacobin contributor Paul Heideman’s reading list on municipal socialism explores how workers’ movements, from Milwaukee to Liverpool, built power at the local level — and how they were defeated.
Aimé Césaire’s time as the mayor of Martinique’s capital city was characterized by his practical, progressive politics — but also by his poet’s eye for beauty.
Fritz Lang’s masterful visual depiction of class stratification in Metropolis remains unrivaled by its would-be inheritors.