A lawsuit filed by New York growers challenges the right of farmworkers on H-2A visas to unionize. Win or lose, the lawsuit is posing an obstacle to the state’s farmworkers, who only won the right to collectively bargain in 2019.
Gaza’s destruction was a political act. Jacobin spoke to Palestinian refugees about the vibrant, beautiful Gaza they remember and how Israel brought their homeland to ruin.
This month marks 100 years since the birth of Marxist historian E. P. Thompson. His work offers vital insights into the growth of class consciousness — but also helps us see how parts of the 20th-century left lost their structural focus on class.
Canada’s carbon footprint is not just a step but a giant leap beyond what’s been claimed. A six-year study pulls back the curtain on the environmental debacle, revealing emissions rates that dwarf industry figures.
The UAW is now in the midst of an ambitious drive to organize the US’s nonunion auto shops, including electric vehicle plants. Winning a just EV transition will require a worker-led organizing strategy that puts common-good demands front and center.
A recent uptick in consumer confidence has led many commentators to decide Americans unhappy with the economy are just delusional. But make no mistake: the signs of economic struggle are very real, and they’re everywhere.
Award-winning performer Holly Herndon is using artificial intelligence to pioneer novel forms of composition, pushing back against AI-generated music that produces an endless glut of the same instead of anything radically new.
Conservatives have often embraced the work ethic in order to attack the poor and unemployed. In her latest book, the philosopher Elizabeth Anderson argues for reclaiming the concept, explaining that its origins lie in a radical critique of the idle rich.
Loosely based on the 2005 film, the new Mr. & Mrs. Smith TV reboot uses the action-comedy genre to represent how impossible life is for so many people today, with two misfit unemployables turning to assassin work out of desperation.
Rudi Dutschke was West Germany’s most prominent radical in the late 1960s and a hate figure for Axel Springer’s media group. Dutschke’s internationalism is more vital than ever today as the German power elite tries to criminalize international solidarity.
Chinese president Xi Jinping’s focus on green investments overseas under the Belt and Road Initiative is ambitious and environmentally necessary. But tighter enforcement of its climate pledge is necessary to curb coal on a global scale.
The Vietnamese philosopher Tran Duc Thao brought Marxism and existentialism together and developed an innovative Marxist theory of language. But Thao’s heterodox approach often set him at odds with the postrevolutionary state that ruled his native country.