First-round results suggest the French left can hold its ground in this month’s local elections. This positive outcome comes despite a campaign defined by an acrimonious civil war between the center-left establishment and France Insoumise.
Vilfredo Pareto once observed that history was a “graveyard of aristocracies” as ruling elites gradually become decadent, depraved, and dysfunctional. The contemporary United States is a disturbingly neat fit for Pareto’s model.
Leftists have celebrated the growing favorability of socialism among young people, but youth politics are more heterodox than they appear.
Silicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries.
In 1984, a white man named Bernie Goetz shot four unarmed black youths on a New York City subway train. The tabloids hailed him as a fed-up everyman — rhetoric that permeated the culture and intensified a culture of white grievance and racist vigilantism.
For many in the United States, life is bleak — so bleak that some look to China and see an alternative, decently functioning society that doesn’t allow its citizens to fall below a “kill line.”
A strike in Colorado shows what happens when thousands of workers confront one of the most concentrated industries in the American economy.
At a time of profound unrest and the launch of an insane new war, Hollywood mostly stuck to its “keep politics out” mandate at this year’s Academy Awards. Javier Bardem, however, stood firm: no to war, and freedom for Palestine.
With his pro-worker reforms and pacifist foreign policy, Bruno Kreisky was Austria’s greatest chancellor. His successes weren’t just a product of his own talent but of the powerful labor movement that shaped him.
The death of Jürgen Habermas has left philosophy and the Left poorer. Central to his work was a profound critique of irrationality in all its forms. Taken seriously, his philosophy provides an indispensable guide in the struggle against oppression.
The investment portfolio of the interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York shows financial stakes in Epstein-associated financial institutions and Venezuelan oil interests. The Trump appointee stands to win big from his own investigations.
As democratic socialism returns to the US public eye, socialists need to make clear how their vision differs from the liberalism most Americans are familiar with. Here are five crucial distinctive elements of a socialist policy agenda.