A new report from the Center for Working-Class Politics, Arizona State University’s Center for Work and Democracy, and Jacobin shows how labor can play to its strengths — and win. The secret? Run more union members for office.
A new Trump administration contracting clause would require AI companies like Anthropic to make their technology available to federal agencies “for any lawful government purpose” — even for uses their systems are designed to prevent.
In the West Bank, at-risk youth are recast as pioneers — funded by Israeli ministries and US tax-deductible charities and deployed to harass, dispossess, and drive Palestinians from their land.
Liverpool’s left-wing council led one of the most important struggles against Margaret Thatcher’s government during the 1980s. If other Labour-run councils had followed its lead, they could have inflicted a major blow to Thatcher’s agenda.
In 1954, the CIA enlisted a right-wing radio host and a US senator in a plot to spread propaganda convincing Americans to boycott Guatemalan coffee — all to destabilize a democratically elected government the US would soon help overthrow.
Most ski resorts operate on vast swaths of land owned by the public. So why has skiing become such a cost-prohibitive pastime for most Americans?
Economist Ann Pettifor explains how America’s industrial decline has its roots in the dismantling of the international monetary system established at Bretton Woods and in the rise of a global financial system that prioritizes capital mobility over production.
We are bumbling toward an AI-enabled, nuclear-curious World War III. A new book urges us to get over antiwar protest burnout and cynicism and to rebuild the long-dormant Cold War movement to ban the bomb.
In Western democracies today, intense political polarization is the norm, and mass protests are not uncommon. Yet ordinary people remain far from the levers of power.
Austria’s experience with 16-year-old voters shows that expanding the franchise does little to restore trust when elections amount to a choice between managed decline and the far right.
After more than a century of German and South African rule, Namibia finally gained its independence on this day in 1990. Working-class struggles and organizations played a vital role in the country’s long march to freedom.
Growing up after the monarchy’s fall, Nepal’s youth are confronting a republic that transformed political institutions while leaving the underlying social order intact.