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.
A recent controversy involving DP World showed how keen Keir Starmer’s government is to prostrate itself before firms that trample over workers’ rights. Starmer’s economic agenda relies heavily on “de-risking” private investment with public money.
Trump’s strength with non-college-educated voters is sinking progressives.
Mainstream Democrats are moving away from identity politics — but the Right has doubled down.
Georgia’s opposition labeled Saturday’s election “totally rigged.” But its insistence that the ruling party’s campaign relied on fearmongering propaganda points to a different story: the opposition struggled to eat into the ruling party’s electorate.
Last year, Arizona voters passed a ballot measure that requires dark money groups funding political advertising to reveal the source of their money. Now it has become the target for corporate interests trying to limit campaign finance laws.
Over a year after Israel launched its genocidal aggression on Gaza, many in the antiwar movement are rightly furious. But we can’t let that rage cloud strategic thinking about the best way to stand in solidarity with Palestine, says Bashir Abu-Manneh.
What kind of economic policy could we expect from a second Trump term?
Now starting his 41st year in jail, Lebanese communist Georges Abdallah is Europe’s longest-held political prisoner. French authorities keep finding pretexts to deny his release, trampling on civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism.
The global left has moved away from social class as an organizing identity, allowing the Right to peddle a working-class identity politics untethered from the socialist vision.
When Labor PM Anthony Albanese seized control of Australia’s construction union, he claimed to be acting in union members’ interests. But leaked documents show that Labor’s handpicked administrators are paying themselves a fortune — with union members’ money.
Donald Trump went on The Joe Rogan Experience to connect with young men and demonstrate he has solutions to their concerns. Instead, the conversation showed the hollowness of his brand of fake populism.
Justin Trudeau’s broken promise on electoral reform reveals his elitist view of governance. He seems to misunderstand that democracy is not about authorizing elite rule, but about enabling popular self-rule.
A new book, Remembering Peasants, takes a close look at Europe’s vanished peasantry. Mixing history, personal memoir, and anthropology, it is a vivid reminder of an experience that has only recently disappeared from the European landscape.
Lobbying by the chemical industry and weak regulations are obscuring details about industrial toxins contaminating areas hit by disasters like Hurricane Helene. If Trump takes office, his administration will likely weaken disclosure rules further.
Atlanta residents want to vote directly on the proposed police training facility known as Cop City. But the campaign to decide the issue by referendum has faced major backlash from the city government, including several instances of outright sabotage.
The unhinged, often racist madness at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally is a preview of what his win on Election Day would unleash. Yet the Democratic Party has continuously refused to wage a substantive campaign to defeat him.
Republican senator Mike Lee is blocking the appointment of the head of the Office of Government Ethics until after Inauguration Day. The tactic is meant to give Donald Trump the power to handpick his own ethics overseer if he wins the election.
Former NYPD sergeant Timothy Pearson allegedly spent his time in the Eric Adams administration threatening and sexually harassing people and bragging about kickbacks. The mayor still let him oversee the safety of one of the city’s most vulnerable populations.
Florida’s Amendment 4 would enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. Republican governor Ron DeSantis is deploying every tactic he can to stop it.
With a number of cases now working their way through US courts, the Right is hoping the Supreme Court will scrap central elements of labor law. Unions need to prepare for this outcome, which would create a dramatically different strategic terrain for labor.