Providence, Rhode Island, is now the largest US city to divest from Israel and the first to enact a divestment law through popular vote. An organizer on the campaign explains how they did it alongside campaigning for socialist elected officials.
President Trump’s midterm debacle has weakened the entire MAGA camp. But J. D. Vance, a more disciplined and more ideological far-right figure, is already positioning himself to inherit the movement in 2028.
Wild Horse Nine is an irreverent portrait of the dopes who traffic in violence against democracy around the world, all in the service of US empire. But the connection between human callousness and evil has flown over the heads of some critics.
Don’t allow centrists to change the terms of debate and the metrics of success. Last week’s midterms saw victories for socialists and other progressives that will allow the Left to grow in the months and years to come.
Spain will see a general strike on Wednesday, following mass protests around housing. A member of Marxist group Coordinadora Juvenil Socialista discusses how these protests have cohered a militant class-based movement for more sweeping change.
The midterms made clear that Americans are angry about the headlong rush into artificial intelligence. We are blocked from needed federal action for now, but states and localities have options that can move us toward eventual national regulation.
Make no mistake: the thousands of dollars that come out of your paycheck each year to pay for health insurance is a tax, just one paid to a private insurer rather than the federal government. Medicare for All would actually lower your taxes.
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 8–Golden State has been headed by one family since 1984. Reform candidates say union staff are using intimidation tactics to prevent a competitive election this year.
Reactionary feminist writers Mary Harrington and Louise Perry dress up arguments for marriage and sexual restraint in Marxist rhetoric. But they also point to the limits of liberal feminism — limits that the Left needs to grapple with.
The emergence of the dollar as the world’s currency was the result of the rise of the US as the preeminent global power. But the slow erosion of US economic and political power will not automatically spell the end of the dollar system.
While New York City gets much of the media attention, the Democratic Socialists of America chapter in Portland, Oregon, has quietly built a local political powerhouse over the last few years.
China’s leaders now appeal to the vision of a rejuvenated future rather than a revolutionary past. The new social contract between the people and the party state is a pragmatic one: social stability in return for continued economic growth.