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
Under capitalism, housing provision is based on what will make developers, lenders, and landlords rich — not what average people need to survive. That’s why we’ll never get decent, affordable housing for everyone under the free market.
Forgiving student debt would benefit more than just the wealthy — but that doesn’t mean we should be completely on board.
Bill de Blasio is welcoming Amazon to New York City with open arms — proving that his progressive reputation was always a sham.
California’s massive, deadly wildfires aren’t just a consequence of climate change — they’re a result of the profit model in utilities. We need to nationalize PG&E and the entire national power grid.
What happens when irresistible Brexit meets an immovable EU? Theresa May will soon find out.
What happens to worker power when the most pressing struggle in workers’ lives isn’t against the boss but against addiction?
Many on today’s Left seek to abolish work. But the goal of socialism is to transform it.
Decrying “tribalism” is a favorite pastime of American elites, but the real problem is the unity among them.
Howard Zinn’s life was a model for left-wing intellectuals to both produce and take action to transform the world.
Until recently, Spain was uniquely free of neofascism. Not anymore.
Eric Hobsbawm’s close engagement with the Italian Communist Party demonstrated the sharply political character of his work.
Israel isn’t just maintaining a brutal military occupation. It’s also supplying weapons to genocidal regimes around the world.
In Europe, austerity hasn’t led to economic growth. But that’s not the point — the point is to discipline workers.
Bernie Sanders is using his bully pulpit to take on capitalists that pay poverty wages. His latest target: the Walton family.
Andrew Cuomo is being touted as a 2020 presidential contender. But his juvenile justice reform law does more to shore up the carceral state than attack it.
The Democrats’ retaking of the House means that Obamacare is finally safe. But people with preexisting conditions won’t be out of the woods until we have a Medicare-for-All system.
A stealth right-wing campaign to call a constitutional convention is perilously close to succeeding. Its goal: repealing the twentieth century.
For over half a century, a war against Colombian civilians has been waged alongside the war against Colombia’s guerrilla insurgencies. And the British state has supported it.
For all the Soviet Union’s faults, by traversing its vast architectural landscape, we can get a glimpse of what a built environment for the many, not the few, could look like.
A new book of essays edited by UK Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell makes the case for economic democracy and charts the increasingly transformative thinking of Corbyn’s Labour Party.