Working people’s share of national income has fallen to a record low, even as corporate profits soar to unthinkable new heights. The trend reflects decades of eroded worker power, and reversing it will take a revitalized labor movement.
Key to a long-term solution to defeating the far right is an economic program that guarantees security to all, including the affordability of housing and other essential components of a dignified life, Isabella Weber tells Jacobin.
Zack Polanski’s leadership of the Green Party is facing its biggest challenge to date. But the Greens can weather the storm if they stand their ground against deceitful attacks from Andy Burnham’s Labour government over their solidarity with Palestine.
Walmart has long stymied attempts to unionize any part of its business. Which is why the breakthrough union victory won by 800 workers at a Mississauga, Ontario regional distribution center is worth closely examining.
Alex Gibney’s Musk throws everything at the world’s first trillionaire, from an AI avatar in a gaming chair to first-person-shooter animation. The result is a four-hour slog that exhausts even Musk haters — and preaches a defeatism that serves the Right.
People are right to want control over their homes and their futures. Socialized housing, not private ownership, can make that promise a reality for everyone.
If the Trump administration succeeds in getting their hands on pro-Palestine donor Fergie Chambers via an extradition request to Spain, it will set a dark precedent for human rights advocates of all kinds.
More than 30 years ago, a young Susan Collins played a leading role in a battle to cut workers’ compensation that at one point led to the first government shutdown in Maine history.
The Israeli government has threatened to strip the NAZA directors of their citizenship and prosecute them. Their crime is making a film that confronts war guilt head on, something American culture has spent decades medicalizing out of existence.
Donald Trump and J. D. Vance have called France’s protests the work of Muslim and Third World invaders. Ignoring the movement’s roots in high schooler demonstrations, they are using violent episodes to paint a dark picture of racial conflict.
Amid renewed interest in the religion across the political spectrum, the historian of antiquity Tim Whitmarsh argues in his new book, Rome’s Age of Revolution, that Christianity’s success relied on the physical and cultural infrastructure of empire.
Cognitive dissonance helps explain why people often turn away from problems they feel powerless to change: denial takes hold. That denial can weaken the solidarity required to change the conditions that leave people feeling powerless.