Germany’s Green Transition Is Faltering
A decade ago, Germany’s renewable energy transition was seen as a model for the rest of the world. Today much of the working class has turned against all things green. What happened?
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Getting Renters Organized
In Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, two cofounders of the LA Tenants Union offer an account of housing, tenancy, the connections between labor and renters’ organizing, and what the authors call the “centuries-long war on tenants.”
The Labor Movement in Myanmar Is Facing Brutal Retaliation
Democratic forces in Myanmar have been fighting for more than three years against a military junta. Unions are a crucial part of the resistance movement, and the government has cracked down on them with deadly force.
Blue-Collar Workers Deserve Six-Figure Salaries Too
The recent longshore workers’ strike provoked pearl-clutching in the media about runaway salaries. But the notion of six-figure pay for blue-collar workers becomes less scandalous when we compare worker pay and purchasing power today to those in 1960.
More and More People Are Saying It: Scrap the Constitution
As the deep problems with the United States’ antimajoritarian institutions become clearer by the day, a growing chorus of voices is taking aim at our country’s exceptionally undemocratic Constitution.
New Poll: Despite Blue-Collar Troubles, Harris Has Slight Lead Over Trump in Pennsylvania
A new battleground poll from Jacobin and the Center for Working-Class Politics / YouGov breaks down support by social class. Kamala Harris leads narrowly in Pennsylvania, but Donald Trump leads among both unionized and manual workers.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Bucking the Media’s Palestine Consensus
The problem with Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recent grilling on Palestine by CBS News’s Tony Dokoupil isn’t that it was rude. It’s that Dokoupil’s questioning betrays a fundamental lack of concern for Palestinians’ basic humanity, shared across mainstream media.
Which Party Wants to Preserve the Status Quo?
When it comes to the economy, Democrats are now the party of the status quo, while Donald Trump’s GOP is making a misleading but radical-sounding pitch to upend the existing order in workers’ favor. It’s a fundamental role reversal in US politics.
The US’s Long History of Destabilizing Iran
Kamala Harris recently called Iran a “destabilizing, dangerous force” in the Middle East. The appropriate context for understanding this remark is the US’s own decades-long history of destabilizing Iran.
Amid Hurricane Milton, GOP Reps Are Blocking Climate Action
As Hurricane Milton bears down on their districts, two Republican representatives backed by fossil fuel companies are pushing legislation that claims the climate crisis is a “false emergency.”
Has the Forward March of Sinn Féin Halted?
Sinn Féin was aiming to form a government in the South of Ireland for the first time after riding high in the polls for a couple of years. But with an election due within months, a drop in support for Sinn Féin means that prospect is slipping away.
The US’s Priority: Palestinian Slaughter, Not Hurricane Prep
As devastating natural disasters cause mass destruction across the southeastern United States, politicians and leaders are more concerned with arming Israel to the teeth than preparing and rebuilding their own communities.