Corbyn Stands up to Trump
Jeremy Corbyn has snubbed Donald Trump’s visit to London, earning him predictable criticism from the British media. Who cares? Corbyn is on the right side of history.
20404 Article(s) by: Yi San
Yi San is a freelance writer based in New York.
In West Virginia’s Education Wars, “We Can’t Play Nice”
Yet again in West Virginia, Republicans are seeking to privatize schools and stop teachers strikes. A West Virginia teacher explains how educators are yet again mobilizing to stop it — and why “there’s nothing to compromise on.”
The Forgotten Socialists of Tiananmen Square
What the world remembers about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were the students. But above all, it was a mass workers’ uprising for socialist democracy.
Outsourcing Repression
Bolsonaro doesn’t need an open military dictatorship to crush his opponents. As the “Colombian model” demonstrates, he can lean on violent paramilitaries to do the dirty work for him.
A British Suffragette in America
British suffragette and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst didn’t just want to talk to “society ladies” about the right to vote. She wanted the women’s movement to be part of a broader emancipatory project.
The Irony of Soviet Modernism
How a 1975 blockbuster satirized the spread of a typical high-rise.
Rebuilding the Social City
To solve the housing crisis, we may have to go back to the future.
The Unmaking of the British Working Class
Margaret Thatcher described Right to Buy as ‘one of the most important revolutions of the century.’ She was right. And we’re still living with the consequences.
The Homeownership Trap
Millions have already faced the dark side of the American Dream. Is there a way to stabilize and democratize homeownership?
Homeless People Don’t Need an App, They Need a Fucking House
It’s really not complicated. Homeless people need homes. So we should give them homes.
The Cooperative Option
Mutual aid cooperatives in Latin America give us a glimpse of what democratic social housing could look like.
The Zombie-Investor Apocalypse
There’s no use in asking why vacant housing and homelessness exist despite the presence of the super-wealthy. These issues exist directly because of them.
We Once Had the Answers
Sweden’s social democrats managed to solve a housing crisis and build a million homes in less than a decade. Why, then, is the Miljonprogrammet maligned today?
How to Solve the Housing Problem
The size of the housing crisis can be daunting, but with a committed political movement and a little bit of state power, it can be confronted.
Going Up the Country
The New Left and the “back-to-the-land” movement.
The Lingo
This list won’t make your city any kinder, but it might help you crack its code.
Kreuzberg Against the Machine
How the West Berlin squatter scene produced Germany’s greatest rock band.
The Private Equity Press
We should demand a media that covers the lives and struggles of working people — homeless, on the verge of eviction, trying to hang on. And not the glamorous lives of property speculators.