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In Minneapolis, years of robust labor and community organizing set the stage for the fierce pushback against federal immigration agents’ aggressive invasion. Their experience may soon be relevant to cities elsewhere in the US facing incursions from ICE.
As a historic nurses’ strike enters its fourth week, New York governor Kathy Hochul has protected hospitals from the strike’s impact by making it easier to hire scabs and doing little to stop executives from dragging out a fight over staffing and safety.
Are you desperate for genre movie escapist fun amid all this hell lately? Who isn’t? Sam Raimi’s Send Help is just what the doctor ordered.
The state of Michigan filed a lawsuit in federal court last week against major oil companies including ExxonMobil and Chevron, accusing them of engaging in a decades-long conspiracy to block the development of clean energy and electric vehicles.
The new Dutch government’s program splurges on the military while cutting the welfare state. With most NATO members committing to similarly high defense spending, working-class Europeans are forced to pay the costs.
Amid aggressive bank lobbying and Donald Trump’s efforts at deregulation, we may be seeing the return of residential-mortgage-backed securities — one of the financial products that led to millions of foreclosures during the Great Recession.
Last week was the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision enshrining the idea that money in politics is not corruption, but constitutionally protected speech. States and cities across the US are battling the rotten legacy of that decision.
Democratic socialist and Minneapolis City Council member Robin Wonsley was reelected and elevated to minority leader just days before ICE escalated its raids. We spoke to her about fighting immigration repression alongside city residents.
Tenants across buildings owned by Pinnacle Group are testing whether collective power can force new arrangements with landlords and the city government under a new pro-tenant mayor, Zohran Mamdani.
Physician Abdul El-Sayed, one of the most prominent advocates of Medicare for All, is now running for US Senate in Michigan. Jacobin spoke to him about his campaign and the continuing fight for single-payer health care.
In the US, union pension funds collectively manage roughly $8 trillion in worker savings. Sweden’s Meidner Plan suggests how labor can wield that economic power effectively: by using pension funds to establish worker ownership over private companies.
A new book by the journalist Yi-Ling Liu documents the rise and fall of emancipatory politics on China’s internet and offers insights into the limitations of struggling for change online.