For a century, the official labor movement in Mexico has been a racket of company unions and protection contracts for bosses. Now that there’s a genuine push to grow independent unionism, President Andrés Manuel Lopéz Obrador must get behind it.
Months into the Federal Reserve’s quest to engineer a recession, ordinary Americans are feeling the pinch. Meanwhile, without the balm of rock-bottom interest rates, we’re getting a glimpse of how much of the American business world has been built on fraud.
Everyone’s talking about the horrible political message of the new Call of Duty. Fair enough. But there’s no proof that video games generate real-world violence. There is proof, however, that gaming is sedating, addicting, and isolating.
In Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis showed how late 19th-century state violence and neglect created colonial markets and infrastructures, which, combined with shifting weather patterns, led to astonishingly brutal famines across the Global South.
The massive walkout at California’s flagship public university system is the largest strike in the US in recent years, and it’s now in its second week. Jacobin spoke with striking grad student workers at UC Riverside and UC Irvine.
Qatar’s World Cup is the culmination of decades of football capitalism — a victory for big corporations and repressive governments, and a tragedy for the fans and workers who make the game.
Written by Weird Al himself and starring Daniel Radcliffe, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is a biopic parody that mocks the prestige form at every turn. It may very well save you from the worst interludes of family togetherness this weekend.
In other countries, workers and unions have been walking off the job to demand higher wages to keep up with the cost of living. But in the US, where unions are weak and strikes are rare, the cost-of-living issue has been ceded to the Right.
From the United States to Bangladesh, from Germany to South Africa, Amazon will face coordinated strikes and protests today demanding that the company raises wages above inflation for all its workers and stops its union busting.
Casualized workers at Australian universities have long endured wage theft and job insecurity. Faced with multiplying court cases and industrial action, university managers are desperately trying to avoid taking responsibility.
For all its problems, Twitter served as a public town square — and now, Elon Musk seems determined to drive it into the ground. It’s past time to build a democratic, noncommodified alternative.
The recent announcement that Jeff Bezos is donating the bulk of his vast fortune to charity should be recognizable to everyone at this point: it’s a tried-and-true scheme to rehabilitate his public image while avoiding paying taxes.