Wouter van de Klippe is a freelance journalist and writer based in Europe. He is particularly interested in organized labor, social and environmental justice, and social welfare states.
Australian conservatives have been dismantling the country’s welfare system for decades. Plans to introduce drug testing for those on unemployment benefits are just the latest punitive measure against the poor.
He has a long history of supporting trans rights, his platform addresses the specific problems trans people face, and he takes pains to include transgender people in the sweeping universal programs that are his hallmark. There’s no question: on trans issues, Bernie Sanders is the best candidate in the presidential race.
Boris Johnson’s promise to “get Brexit done” allowed him to frame his whole agenda as a matter of implementing the popular will. Die-hard calls to rejoin the European Union are hopelessly out of touch — and risk dividing Labour over a futile culture war.
El Salvador shows what happens when countries criminalize abortion: women end up behind bars, and sexual violence is institutionalized.
A study of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement is rich with lessons for socialists who want to use the state without being captured by it.
Rebecca Long-Bailey’s “aspirational socialism” is an attempt to overcome a pervasive problem: after a decade of austerity, many working people don’t believe that politics can make their lives better.
Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, and many leading Democrats are touting the administration’s Middle East peace plan. But the scheme is nothing but a brazen land grab that would deepen Israeli control while depriving millions of Palestinians of basic civil rights.
We need an anti-war movement more than ever. Through his insistence on the need to build grassroots power from the bottom up and his consistent anti-war record, Bernie Sanders can help give us the tools to build one.
Micah White, the guy who says he “cocreated” Occupy Wall Street, just went to Davos to “achieve great changes” with the 1 percent. Sometimes social movement activism becomes just another scam.
The real path to liberation isn’t the call to “abolish the family.” It’s through radically transforming traditional family life with reforms that challenge capitalism’s corrosive logic.
“Electability” is the public rallying cry of the Stop Bernie campaign. But look a little closer, and the real issue becomes clear: the establishment fears having a democratic socialist in the White House.
Boris Johnson’s Conservative government has announced it will be renationalizing British train lines. It’s further proof that privatization is being discredited around the world.
El Salvador president Nayib Bukele has been in office eight months, and his post-ideological pretenses on the campaign trail have quickly veered to the right. In an interview, Salvadoran economist Julia Evelin Martínez assesses Bukele’s first eight months in office, the sad state of the Salvadoran left, and why she’s fervently hoping for a Bernie Sanders presidency.
The German far-right party AfD recently invited a US academic to parliament to defend the country’s colonial past. But all the whitewashing in the world can’t hide the fact that colonialism was a horrendous, often genocidal affair.
We’re in the midst of a twenty-first-century Gilded Age. To end it, we can turn to some of the radical policies designed to democratize the world of work, empower a multiracial working class, and reel in the worst excesses of robber barons nearly a century ago.
Jonathan Chait says “running Bernie Sanders against Trump would be an act of insanity.” But sticking with the Democratic establishment’s orientation to affluent moderates will spell disaster in 2020, just like it did in 2016 when 4.4 million Obama voters stayed home.
Karl Marx is often thought of as a purely economic thinker. But the famed socialist was a committed democrat — and his writings offer potential remedies for democratizing our undemocratic political system.
Western liberal outlets acclaimed Social Democrat Zoran Milanović’s election as a victory for a “leftist” presidential candidate. But his campaign was mainly aimed at scooping up conservative votes — as all Croatian politics shift toward the radical right.
If the establishment got this nervous about Donald Trump in 2016, then imagine how much they’ll meltdown with the rise of democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders in 2020.
The editors of a new collection of essays argue that we can’t ignore the Chinese Revolution and its impact on the world.