Tanja Nijmeijer’s memoir tells of how Colombia’s FARC was forced into a long and painful retreat. Her account of its political setbacks suggests that power doesn’t always flow from the barrel of a gun.
We spoke to a Montana tenant union leader about organizing renters in the state and the midterms victory of Sam Forstag, a smoke jumper, a union leader, and the first elected House Democrat in Montana in three decades.
Beef has long symbolized the promise of American material abundance. The midterms illustrated the political consequences of failing to deliver it.
Pushbacks are a tactic to violently force migrants back across borders. European authorities recognize that the practice is illegal, but this hasn’t stopped pushbacks from becoming increasingly common along the EU’s external boundaries.
Guglielmo Carchedi, who died in October at 85, was one of the great Marxist thinkers of our time. His early work on the new middle class and his later work on value theory and crises still offer the Left powerful tools.
Put their 2026 midterms side by side with previous campaigns, and it’s clear: Democrats won in red states by sounding less like Democrats and more like Bernie Sanders.
Lee Chang-dong doesn’t have the same profile as fellow South Korean directors like Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook, but his latest film should change that. Possible Love is a powerful study of class in the wake of a shattering real-life strike defeat.
In The Time Tax, journalist Annie Lowrey ably documents the myriad ways US public services harm poor and working-class people and alienate them from the government. Yet she downplays the class interests that benefit from these Kafkaesque arrangements.
Eugene Debs’s greatest achievement was not any particular vote tally. It was his making socialist partisans understand that the socialist movement arose out of the American political tradition’s most democratic currents.
Andy Burnham and his foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, have adopted a more critical tone toward Israel in a bid to win back progressive voters to the Labour Party. But the fundamentals of Britain’s close alliance with Israel remain largely unchanged.
Founded in 1937, the Southern Negro Youth Congress was a key player in the radical wing of the early phase of the civil rights movement.
The term “cultural Marxism” has become one of the main rallying cries for the international right. This lurid conspiracy theory about the influence of the Frankfurt School has little connection to reality, but that doesn’t make it any less dangerous.