Tax Wealthy Private Universities Now
Elite universities like Harvard and Penn are using their tax-exempt status to rob public coffers blind. The solution is easy: tax them.
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The Left Should Defend Classical Education
The great books aren’t just a collection of “dead white males,” and teaching or reading them isn’t elitist or Eurocentric. On the contrary, they are a treasure that should be made available and accessible to working-class people everywhere.
We Need Radical Energy in the Fight for Abortion Rights
The Supreme Court is about to gut abortion rights in America. The anti-abortion movement is winning — the Left can’t turn the tide without connecting reproductive rights to broader progressive struggles throughout the country.
The NHS Is Failing Because It’s Not Public Enough
Right-wingers use today’s NHS shortcomings to argue that a public health system doesn’t work. But its failings stem from decades of pro-market reforms.
Six Things You’re Not Hearing About Inflation
The current conversation about inflation serves corporate interests.
In Algeria’s Freedom Struggle, the Spirit of Frantz Fanon Is Still Alive
Frantz Fanon died 60 years ago today. In his last decade, he was deeply involved in Algeria’s anti-colonial struggle — providing lessons that can still be used in the country's fight against dictatorship today.
How Greece’s Brutal Anti-Migrant Policies Became a Model for Britain
From criminalizing aid workers to barbed-wire prisons and pushbacks at sea, Greece's right-wing government is waging a war on migrants — and providing a model that Britain's Tory government is keen to follow.
Yes, Social Media Can Help With Real-World Organizing
We can’t change the world just by posting on social media. But as the 2018 red state teachers’ strikes show, if organizers make strategic choices about their online organizing, social media can be used to build mass militant actions like strikes.
Hospitals Are Using the Nursing Shortage to Stiff Health Care Workers
Rather than materially address the underlying issues of the nursing shortage crisis, health care providers are exploiting it in order to further consolidate power at the top of industry hierarchies — and break the power of organized labor below.
Universal Benefits Make Sense. Means-Testing Doesn’t.
Universal benefits aren't merely the morally just way to carry out welfare policies. They are also the smart way to carry out welfare policies.
Australia Has Sacrificed Julian Assange to the United States
The US is fighting tooth and nail to get Julian Assange extradited to an American prison. Ever the dutiful ally, the Australian government is effectively giving over Assange, and flouting any commitment to human rights, freedom of the press, and democracy in the process.
From Italian Factories to British Pizzerias
Working-class authors often write of alienation from hometown life after going to university and becoming professionals. Alberto Prunetti's autobiographical novel instead tells us what it's like to leave an Italian steel town only to find low-paid kitchen jobs in England.