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.
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Recurring layoffs reveal an industry organized around extracting value while workers bear the cost of crises. In Montreal, game workers are building solidarity and organizing for collective power.
Economist Anwar Shaikh, who died this month, spent half a century turning Marx’s categories into hard numbers. His first teaching assistant and longtime collaborator remembers the man and the work.
The Left is often asked how it proposes to pay for programs like universal childcare, Medicare or All, and a green jobs program. Here’s how: tax wealth and capital the same way we already tax wages, and slash our bloated and destructive military budget.
Political organizer and chef Lewis Bassett’s The Full English offers a firsthand account of how English food has been shaped by industrialization, empire, and class from the vantage point of restaurants across the country.
A new book makes the most rigorous case yet for why so few working-class people hold office. But by treating the lack of workers in office as a law of electoral democracy, its authors underrate how much organized workers could change it.
Far-right Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella seeks the return of the disastrous Plan Colombia, this time inviting US troops for joint operations, per Pete Hegseth. The opposition says it’s a violation of Colombians’ rights.
A complacent view contrasts the freedom of the US internet with the tight regimentation of the Chinese version. In reality, the two seem to be converging around a model of state and oligarchic control over online communities and debates.
Centrist Democrats like potential 2028 presidential candidate Rahm Emanuel are presenting heightened great-power rivalry as the path to US national renewal. Socialists need to articulate an alternative to their New Cold War fantasies.