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Karl Marx developed his critique of capitalism by studying England’s “satanic mills.” But, as David Harvey writes, he understood capitalism as a global system. Were he alive today, he would insist that socialists focus on Silicon Valley as much as Shenzhen.
Overall union density in the US ticked up slightly last year to 10%. This figure doesn’t account for Donald Trump's executive order last March that commanded agencies to ignore contracts and bargaining rights for nearly a million federal workers.
The latest release of Epstein files sheds more light on his ruling-class allies. In France, President Emmanuel Macron has resisted calls for a public debate on the subject despite Jeffrey Epstein’s far-reaching relations in business and diplomatic circles.
An alarming current attempt to use spurious accusations of antisemitism to attack press freedoms wasn't recently carried out by the Trump administration. It was at the hands of Manhattan’s liberal district attorney, Alvin Bragg.
The killing of El Mencho, Mexico’s most wanted drug lord, won’t slow the cartels, reduce violence, or stop the flow of drugs.
Emily Brontë’s novel deserves a more sophisticated approach than Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights.
Boycotts against corporations can be powerful tools. But they have to be waged as part of larger collective struggles with real plans to win — not simply as acts for frustrated individuals to take on their own.
Justice Neil Gorsuch’s decision to strike down Trump’s tariffs underscores a broader truth: the Supreme Court is just as insincere as every other branch of government, with justices often prioritizing the political dynamics of the moment.
In interwar Europe, the rise of Hitler and Mussolini forced leftists into pragmatic alliances. The popular fronts they built were a defense against fascism, but also pointed to how to win broad-based social reform.
German artist Max Beckmann is often regarded as interwar Germany’s foremost apostle of despair. Yet while he emphasized his own apolitical character, his work was also the product of a spiritual foreboding that never escaped politics.
Historian Steve Fraser looks back on the strange experience in 1969 when he and fellow New Leftists were accused of plotting to blow up Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell.
The new documentary WTO/99 reconstructs the 1999 protests against a global neoliberal trade order, the violent police repression, and the hope for a different world that found vibrant expression on the streets of Seattle.