Yi San is a freelance writer based in New York.
Donald Trump is angry because Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, hasn’t backed the war on Iran. Sánchez’s stand is hardly radical, but it seems like it now that almost all of Europe has fallen in behind Trump.
The largest and longest nurse strike in New York City history concluded last month. A rank-and-file nurse leader writes in Jacobin about how the 15,000 striking nurses beat giant hospitals to win major victories on safe-staffing and other issues.
After weeks of nurses picketing in the freezing cold, New York City nurses concluded their biggest-ever strike last month. Jacobin spoke to a striking nurse leader about their fight against intransigent employers and a hostile governor.
For the looksmaxxer, women are irrelevant except as currency to buy rank over other men. Undoing these market logics with real love is the only way to liberate the looksmaxxer from lonely self-optimization.
The Supreme Court’s rejection of Donald Trump’s tariffs will likely have little effect on the administration’s tariff regime. It will, however, further empower the conservative legal movement and its favorite deregulatory tool.
Today is the birthday of the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg. Routinely reduced to an inoffensive libertarian figure, the harder edges of her class-struggle politics are often ignored.
Germany is in the midst of an industrial job loss wave worse than the one during COVID. The Right blames the green transition, and parts of the Left blame the Ukraine war. But the real cause is the shortsightedness of Germany’s political elite.
American political leaders are openly stating that the United States is fighting Iran for Israel.
The Democratic Party has split: one faction masks corporate capitulation as necessary moderation, and the other refuses to tell voters to ignore their experience, admitting that Democrats have long bailed out the ultrarich at workers’ expense.
The three-decade-old Scream franchise is back and more profitable than ever. But the series’s trademarked meta-commentary about slasher movie conventions has long since worn thin.
After his White House meeting last week, Zohran Mamdani has a tentative plan to build 12,000 units of affordable housing in Queens. It’s a chance to tackle the climate and affordability crises simultaneously by building green.
In February, a series of court rulings in Britain exonerated activist group Palestine Action and released most of its jailed activists. Yet the government continues to call it a terrorist operation in its attempt to repress dissent.
James Talarico prevailed in yesterday’s Democratic Senate primary in Texas with an economic populist message tailored to working-class voters. His campaign points toward the kind of politics that stand a chance of beating MAGA, even in Trump country.
After Iran’s leader was killed by a US air strike, pro-intervention media emphasized the celebration of many Iranians. But a nation of 90 million isn’t a hive mind, and the bitter experience of previous wars puts initial celebrations into grim perspective.
Pension funds are using average Americans’ retirement savings to fuel the financialization of our economy and concentration of oligarchic power in Wall Street’s hands. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Donald Trump’s war on Iran is barely half a week old, and with each day, it has become a bigger and bigger debacle.
Democrats are pushing a resolution to block Donald Trump from taking further military action in Iran without congressional approval. But the effort is facing opposition from three lawmakers from their own party backed by the Israel lobby.
High school student Reese Armstrong is mounting a socialist campaign for commissioner in Travis County, Texas. It’s a safe bet that Armstrong’s focus on public health care, social housing investment, and class politics will surprise voters more than their age.
It’s not enough just to oppose this war on Iran. We should demand major cuts to the US military budget, starting with cutting it in half.
Marek Broderick is the youngest member of the Burlington City Council. He’s using his seat to bridge the gap between student activism and the city’s broader working-class struggles.