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Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad has been a leading witness of the genocide in Gaza. In an interview with Jacobin, she explains how Western media misrepresentations have enabled Israel’s crimes.
There is no simple opposition to be drawn between the liberal market order of the early 1800s and the supposedly more violent neoliberal state of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Coercive projects and authoritarian visions run throughout both.
Zoning reform measures have divided tenant advocates in New York. Yet loosening the city’s anti-housing regime is essential if we ever want to build social housing at scale.
When authoritarianism rears its head, the labor movement needs to be at the center of opposing it. And right now, unions need to be at the center of the burgeoning movement against Donald Trump’s attacks on civil liberties and workers’ rights.
The Portuguese Socialist Party once seemed to be a model for Europe’s center left, gaining support while its sister parties were in decline. But this year’s election was a crushing defeat that saw the Socialists fall behind the far-right group Chega.
From Rishi Sunak to Keir Starmer, Britain’s political class has supported Israel’s atrocities in Gaza to the hilt while attempting to supress protests against genocide on the home front. They’ll never be able to wash away the shame of complicity.
India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, tried to divert attention from domestic problems by promoting the image of India as a rising power with a strong leader. But Modi’s failure to stand up to Trump’s destructive agenda has exposed this as hollow posturing.
The Trump administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued guidance yesterday prohibiting states from wiping medical debt from consumers’ credit ratings. The move could exacerbate the crippling effects of skyrocketing medical costs.
Politicians have long used red-baiting to win Asian American votes, assuming an aversion to anything labeled socialist. But Zohran Mamdani’s primary triumph in Asian immigrant neighborhoods suggests that economic populism can overcome ideological baggage.
Consuming food all by oneself is an anomaly in the history of human civilization, a deviation from millennia of tradition. And more and more Americans are doing it.
As great powers abandon even the pretense of law, the undeclared war on Venezuela exposes a world ruled by extortion, collapse, and the redefinition of sovereignty.
The fight to defend democracy will succeed only if it is rooted in the everyday economic realities that drive people’s disillusionment with politics in the first place.