The Radical Imagination of Mike Davis
There was nothing mechanical or deterministic about the Marxism of Mike Davis, writes labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein.
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Saltburn Is a Film About Britons’ Misunderstanding of Class
Billed as another eat-the-rich movie, Saltburn turns out to be the opposite: a film about the British middle class’s nostalgia for the aristocracy and its desperate desire to take their place.
Asking the Wrong Questions
No, the British Labour Party didn't lose last month because they were too left-wing.
Registering Class and Politics
Leo Panitch on Ralph Miliband and fifty years of the Socialist Register.
Democrats Keep Handing Working-Class Voters to Republicans
The Democratic Party has sold out and ignored workers over and over in recent years — so much so that despite Republicans’ steadfast commitment to the rich, they’ve also made significant inroads in winning over working-class voters.
Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Fifty Years Later
On the fiftieth anniversary of the “strike that changed New York,” the Ocean Hill-Brownsville teachers strikes have much to teach us about building a strong anti-racist labor movement made up of both workers and community members.
The Problem Isn’t Classism, It’s Class
Under capitalism, prejudice against workers is common. But it only adds insult to a deeper, more profound injury.
David Brooks Thinks Class Has More to Do With Where You Eat Than Where You Work
David Brooks, elite pundit par excellence, has been giving a master lesson for years in how to talk about class without actually talking about class. But class is about material realities, not empty cultural signifiers like one’s TV habits or food preferences.
The Identity Mistake
Mistaken Identity claims to overcome the limits of identity politics but leads us down the same dead end.
The Long Road to Crisis
The dismantling of autoworker gains was a class project, not the inevitable result of globalization.
Why Wagenknecht Will Fail
In Germany and elsewhere, making tactical concessions to the Right isn’t just bad socialist politics — it won’t work.
How Progressive Civil Society Became Professional NGO Culture
The disintegration of working-class institutions and the rise of professionalized advocacy have severed the connections between progressive civil society and working-class communities.
Democrats Keep Handing Working-Class Voters to Republicans
By letting false friends in the GOP appeal to striking railworkers, Democrats are playing with fire.
Eugene Debs on “Jesus, the Supreme Leader”
In a 1914 essay, Eugene V. Debs pronounced Jesus “the world’s supreme revolutionary leader” and “as real and persuasive a historic character as John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, or Karl Marx.” We reprint the essay here in full as our Christmas gift to you.
Tony Blair’s New Labour Subordinated the Party to Capitalists
In the 1990s, Tony Blair and his circle “modernized” the British Labour Party by minimizing the power of members and embracing neoliberal dogmas. But it was the prior hollowing out of the party’s institutions that allowed New Labour to come to power.
American Philanthropy and its Discontents
Philanthropy thrills to begging and tolerates activism, but cannot abide a demand from those it wants to save.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Aren’t Playing the Same Game
The Democratic Party establishment has shown itself time and again to be an enemy of left-wing policies. Despite her progressive plans, Elizabeth Warren is cozying up to those Democratic elites. Bernie Sanders welcomes their hatred.
No, the GOP Has Not Become the Party of Workers
The bare minimum requirement of being a party of workers is to actually support measures that would improve those workers’ lives. By that metric, the GOP has failed over and over again.
The Privatization of Childhood
Childhood has become a period of high-stakes preparation for life in a stratified economy.
Cricket Has Always Been Shaped by Class Warfare
Discussing class in the context of cricket has long been taboo. But the maintenance of the class order in England serves as the driving force behind the sport’s development.