Underestimating Capital, Overestimating Labor
There was no crisis of profitability heading into the financial crisis and there is even more obviously no profitability crisis now.
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Tony Benn (1925–2014)
Tony Benn really did pose a danger to the British establishment; because he continued, even after Thatcher and Blair, to inspire those pushing for radical change.
Jacobin Radio South Africa, Ep. 2
On the Democratic Alliance party and the failures South African liberalism.
Venezuelan Jacobins
Only the Venezuelan sans culottes can save the Bolivarian Revolution.
The Right’s Challenge to Chavismo
The Venezuelan Right appears to be building the kind of mass movement that could reverse the gains of the Bolivarian Revolution.
Bloodless Liberals
A concern for human life, not international law, should drive opposition to the US “targeted killing” program.
Which Side Is Your Pension On?
The failure of unions to gain control over their pension funds gives insight into corporate-controlled finance and the obstacles to democratizing it.
Uncommon CORE
The 2012 Chicago Teachers Union strike would have never come to be without the patient building of a radical formation within the union, the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators.
On Fredric Jameson
Jameson writes from an immense sense of engagement with the world around him, and with faith in what that engagement might accomplish.
Trotsky in Cuba
Like his narrator in The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura has been made to matter less than he should.
Michelle Goldberg Goes to Washington
The problem isn’t just voting for Democrats, it's letting a rightward-moving Democratic Party set the Left’s political horizons.
Vanessa Redgrave at the Oscars
When an Israel boycott showed up on the red carpet.