How the National Front Changed France
Marine Le Pen has taken the National Front into the French mainstream without shedding the party’s far-right politics.
19500 Articles by: William G. Martin
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
Chomsky and His Critics
Noam Chomsky on ISIS, his foreign policy critics, and why socialist ideas are “never far below the surface.”
Why SEIU Backed Hillary
SEIU’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton displays the same shortsightedness that has contributed to labor’s decline.
Argentina’s Right-Wing Awakening
No matter who prevails in today’s run-off election in Argentina, the Right will emerge stronger than it’s been in years.
The Austerity Backlash
The Liberal government in Quebec’s attempt to impose austerity has instead galvanized thousands against it.
Abandon the Future
If there’s a lesson from Back to the Future Day, it’s that the future can’t save us.
The Socialism of Bernie Sanders
Jacobin contributors on Bernie Sanders’ democratic socialism speech and what his candidacy means for the Left.
Thinking Small Won’t End Poverty
Decades of US-backed community development programs have left behind a disastrous economic and political legacy.
Don’t Mourn, Organize!
Two letters by the labor singer Joe Hill, who was executed 100 years ago today.
The Wrong Kind of Secularism
The French secular ideal of laïcité is not a misused noble idea — it is deeply flawed at its roots.
France Returns to the State of Exception
The discourse of war is already upon us. But it must be resisted.
Against Community Policing
There’s nothing progressive about community policing — it deepens criminalization and expands police power.
When the Excluded Organize
The domestic workers who asserted their rights in the 1970s provide a model for organizing workers today.
Killing Guatemala
US interventionism has helped defeat working-class struggles in Guatemala, resulting in enduring violence and poverty.
The Salaita Settlement
Steven Salaita has reached a settlement with the university that fired him for criticizing Israel.
Turning Tragedy Into War
The tragic attacks in Paris call for a politics of international solidarity and antiracism — not a new wave of war and repression.
Nationalism’s Heretic
Polish writer Miron Białoszewski poked holes in nationalist myths with idiosyncratic prose.
Will Labor Back Bernie?
The movement for labor to endorse Bernie Sanders is part of an effort to bring political decision-making back to the rank-and-file.
Poland’s Iron Consensus
Poland’s recent elections cemented right-wing dominance and the neoliberal trajectory of the past two decades. Can the Left recover?
The Anti-Poverty Swindle
Corporate-driven development partnerships benefit their sponsors more than those in the Global South.