Jacobin's documentary, The Ecuadorian Candidate, chronicled the young leftist economist Andrés Arauz as he faced right-wing opposition and embarked on a journey to become the next president of Ecuador. It’s a gripping feature now available for free.
Today the Chabad-Lubavitch movement champions far-right religious zealotry under a messianic banner. But a century ago, left-wing Jewish thinkers like Walter Benjamin and Franz Kafka understood messianic prophecy as foretelling universal liberation.
Fifty years after the publication of The Power Broker, the legacy of urban planner Robert Moses is ripe for revisiting.
To win competitive districts, left-wing candidates must challenge both economic oligarchy and cultural elitism.
Years into the war with Russia, the Ukrainian state has not resorted to widespread nationalizations or labor conscription. Unlike the total mobilizations of the last century, Ukraine’s war effort heavily relies on market mechanisms and civilian donations.
The story of the Congressional Black Caucus reflects the class contradictions of black politics in the post–civil rights era.
The liberal attempt to counter Rush Limbaugh on the airwaves was too little, too late.
British Labour politician Anthony Crosland’s The Future of Socialism was once the bible of revisionist social democracy. Looked at today, it is far from prescient but surprisingly compelling.
The War on Christmas isn’t fully a figment of Fox News’s imagination. But the villains are today’s capitalist Scrooges, relentlessly exploiting their workers with long hours and low wages through the holidays.
The Amazon workers who walked off the job at warehouses across the country at peak season are trying to establish a union beachhead against one of the most important — and most anti-union — employers in the world.
Cuba’s Julio Antonio Mella had a remarkably active political life before he was assassinated at the age of just 25 in 1929. Mella’s political thinking, which combined Marxism with the legacy of José Martí, was a landmark for the Latin American left.
According to new data from the Federal Reserve, nearly three-quarters of expected flood damage to American homes is currently uninsured — and Republicans and those who don’t perceive personal harm from climate change are more likely to lack adequate coverage.