When Queensland Went Socialist
Between 1915 and 1924, the Queensland Labor Party set about building socialism in Australia’s Sunshine State. It was and remains one of the most ambitious reforming programs in Labor’s history.
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Health Insurers Are Hiking Premiums as Their Profits Balloon
The US’s six largest health insurers reported massive profits last year, doling out billions on stock buybacks and dividends. That hasn’t stopped them from pushing for sharp hikes to Americans’ insurance premiums.
ICE’s Deportation Machine Runs on Private Security
Some of the world’s largest private security firms are making millions of dollars by aiding ICE with its mass deportations. Now the Trump administration’s record-breaking deportation spending blitz is poised to boost their profits even more.
The War on Communists in the Hotel Workers’ Union
The history of anti-communist purges in New York’s hotel workers’ union provides a lesson in how socialists can both gain and lose influence within the labor movement.
Eddington: Western Noir Chaos Made Boring
For all of Eddington’s loud chaos, writer and director Ari Aster is expressing a fundamentally flat and stale vision of the world.
The Long Anti-Zionist History of the American Jewish Left
In the last year and a half, thousands of left-wing American Jews have protested Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. They are taking part in a long tradition of anti-Zionist Jewish radicalism in the United States.
New Report: Working-Class Social and Economic Attitudes
A new study from the Center for Working‑Class Politics and Jacobin reveals where working-class voters stand on key issues and how they differ from wealthier Americans. The message is clear: economic populism must be the core of progressive appeals to workers.
Democrats’ Project 2029 Is Doubling Down on Failure
The Democrats' Project 2029 takes up the unique strategy of getting the very people who drove their party into the disastrous rut it is now stuck in to come up with the ideas that will get it out.
France’s Government Promises More Work, Fewer Holidays
After raising the pension age and cutting taxes on the rich, now Emmanuel Macron’s government wants to scrap the Easter Monday and VE Day bank holidays. The plan is sure to face stiff resistance, with French workers unwilling to swallow further austerity.
The Strange and Wonderful Subcultures of 1960s New York
Before planners and property developers turned Manhattan into a sterile playground for the wealthy, it was the site of extraordinarily creative art and music scenes. Critic J. Hoberman shows us how New York thrived in the shadow of nuclear war.
The Extreme Center Keeps Banning Its Critics
In France and beyond, centrist governments are invoking "public order" to crack down on left-wing activism. The recent ban on anti-fascist group Jeune Garde follows a wider pattern — including Britain’s move against Palestine Action — of criminalizing dissent.
How Irish Resistance Shaped Australian History
When British authorities deported Irish rebels to their Australian penal colonies, they also exported a tradition of anti-colonial resistance.