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New York governor Kathy Hochul is trying to dodge taxing the rich to please her wealthy donors, argue New York City Democratic Socialists of America’s cochairs Grace Mausser and Gustavo Gordillo.
Donald Trump has long claimed he wants to lower credit card interest rates. His regulators are intervening in a legal battle to do the opposite.
General strikes don’t happen very often in the United States. But in the face of widespread anger at ICE abuses and the murder of Renee Good, the Twin Cities’ labor movement is moving toward organizing one at the end of this week.
The UN is putting refugees to work in poorly paid green jobs to generate carbon credits for billion-dollar firms. It’s one of the most cynical instances of a corporate greenwashing agenda that has done little to address climate change.
Coretta Scott King condemned the brutality of the Vietnam War and criticized how it drained money from housing, health care, and jobs.
AI is understood to be an unstoppable force, but it is still wholly dependent on human labor to function. Whether these technologies liberate or create misery will depend on who controls their development and deployment.
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s dizzying history of energy consumption argues that no energy transition has ever occurred: each generation consumes more of past fuels. Not only are his claims ahistorical but they justify an unwarranted pessimism about the future.
Global fertility decline has made reproduction a site of reactionary family policies and moralized childlessness. But a healthy society would let people choose to have children or not without turning that choice into a moral adjudication.
Democratic socialists Eon Huntley and Christian Celeste Tate are running for New York State Assembly, hoping to grow the socialist bench in Albany. Jacobin spoke to them about their campaigns.
Israel routinely confiscates what it calls uncultivated Palestinian land. In the West Bank towns of Beit Furik or Beit Dajan, farmers who refuse to be driven from their territory are subject to constant attacks by armed settlers and the Israeli army.
From free speech fights to picket lines to defending political prisoners, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn lived a life on the front lines for the working class.
New York City Hall has traditionally had an antagonistic relationship with the city’s municipal workforce. Mayor Zohran Mamdani can chart a new course, working collaboratively with city workers to deliver better public services.