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
Private monopolies are rightly criticized for being inefficient and unaccountable. But public monopolies are a different story — we should loudly and proudly say that democratically controlled public monopolies are a positive good.
The election of a Green mayor in Budapest is a rare setback for Hungary’s far-right premier Viktor Orbán. But if it’s going to mount a sustainable challenge to his rule, the opposition needs to start voicing the malaise of the majority of Hungarians.
Mauricio Macri’s time in power was an unmitigated disaster for working people in Argentina. As the country votes today, it’s time to completely reject his failed neoliberal politics.
Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses are just around the corner. But all the state fair photo ops and cornfield rallies in the world can’t obscure a basic fact: the state’s workers are getting shafted.
Chile’s mass mobilizations challenge the neoliberal model and have raised expectations for millions of Chileans. With the country’s explosion of protests in recent weeks at its back, the fledgling left coalition could fight back against the decades of neoliberalism that have immiserated so many Chileans.
The deck is stacked against us at the state level in the United States. But it’s crucial that we fight and win there.
The Amazon rainforest is close to an irreversible tipping point. By centering it in his foreign policy, Bernie Sanders can further distinguish himself while pushing his rivals.
Seventy percent of Americans oppose bosses being allowed to change or eliminate an employee’s health insurance. That’s our strongest case for Medicare for All — you’ll never lose your health insurance again.
Elizabeth Warren is struggling to explain how her health care plan will be paid for. But everyone knows how Medicare for All will work: we all contribute taxes according to our ability to pay, and we’re all guaranteed comprehensive coverage. That’s a message that can win.
We talk to Fidel Narvaez, the ousted Ecuadorian diplomat who handled Julian Assange’s case about why Lenín Moreno caved to international pressure, broke his promises, and gave Assange up to British authorities.
Despite a disappointing result in Monday’s elections, the NDP has embraced its most socialist program in a generation. To recover and to win, it must continue to offer Canadians an alternative to neoliberalism.
Ending the horrors of our criminal justice system won’t just require proposing strong progressive criminal justice policy — it will also require building a mass movement that can end mass incarceration. Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who’s doing both.
Seventy-five years after the Nazis murdered him, we celebrate the life of German anti-fascist athlete and communist resistance fighter Werner Seelenbinder.
Controversy over Bolivia’s election reflects deep fissures in the country.
Conservative Democrat Eliot Engel’s grip on New York’s 16th congressional district appears to be slipping. We talk to Justice Democrats–endorsed contender Jamaal Bowman about the need to break with establishment politics.
The streets of Lebanon are ringing with protest chants as the country witnesses its largest popular movement in decades. Their target: a political and economic system that impoverishes the many while enriching the few.
The clashes in Barcelona reflect intense popular anger at the jailing of Catalan leaders. Since 2017’s disputed referendum, the conflict has appeared increasingly intractable — and as protests become more militant, the pro-independence parties are losing control of events.
On October 24, 1975 over 90 percent of Icelandic women refused to work. The aim: to show how much society depended on women’s labor, from farms and factories to the home.
Boris Johnson has been backed into a corner. After promising to deliver Brexit, he’s instead been forced to ask the EU for yet another delay. Now he’s hurtling toward an election in which he will have to face the voters empty-handed. Meanwhile, Labour’s strategy is clear: refuse to fight the Brexit culture war and focus on the party’s radical vision for the future.
The teachers’ strike wave that has swept the nation since last year hasn’t just reinvigorated working-class militancy — it’s also produced some excellent picket line music and dancing. On the occasion of the teachers’ strike in Chicago, we rounded up the best of them.