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As organized labor lost strength, the Democratic Party turned to professional-class voters to shore up its base.
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How Does the Subaltern Speak?
Postcolonial theory discounts the enduring value of Enlightenment universalism at its own peril.
Bernie’s Executive Orders List Shows He Means Business
Presidential decrees are no panacea. But a Bernie Sanders administration could use executive orders to pursue three objectives: changing lives, winning hearts and minds, and stymieing enemies. The good news is, Team Bernie already has a roster in the works.
Trumpism Is a Small Business Owner’s Revolt
The MAGA movement changed its strategy after January 6, attempting to seize control of the Republican Party from the bottom up. Finish What We Started follows the Right’s long march through America’s political institutions.
James Connolly, a Socialist for the Present
In his recent James Connolly lecture, Labour’s John McDonnell praised the Irish revolutionary as a formative influence on his politics. Connolly’s republicanism isn’t just of historical interest — it tells socialists how to think about democratizing society today.
Why Americans Hate the Democratic Party
Most voters aren’t rejecting Democrats over the culture war. They’re rejecting them because they don’t deliver.
A Time to Be Bold
Socialism is having a moment in the sun. It's a chance to push a bold, transformative vision of what a society for the many rather than the few can look like.
10 Years Ago Today, the Chicago Teachers Union Strike Changed Public Education
When the Chicago Teachers Union went on strike against Mayor Rahm Emanuel ten years ago, corporate education reform was on the march. The CTU won that strike, beat back the neoliberal Democrats, and turned the tide in favor of public education.
How to End Mass Incarceration
The American prison system is brutal and unjust. But the rhetoric of prison abolition won’t help us end its depravities.
Catalonia: Past and Future
As Catalonia prepares to declare independence we examine the history and politics behind its independence movement.
Arming Ourselves Isn’t the Answer to Rising Authoritarianism
Expanding gun ownership in response to ICE’s horrific violence is not a path toward safety or liberation, argues epidemiologist Rachel Hoopsick. It is a path to more death, more political weakness, and deeper entrenchment of the very forces the Left opposes.
Bertolt Brecht’s Refugee Conversations Is a Book for Our Times
The German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht died on this day in 1956. His newly released book Refugee Conversations draws on his own years in exile to tear apart the anti-immigrant politics which still plague us today.
Class Politics in America Is Far From Dead
A venerable theory about people’s political values is making a comeback: the theory of “postmaterialism.” But despite what you may have heard, the theory doesn’t say class politics is doomed in rich countries — and neither did the scholar who created it.
Reckoning With the Left’s Many Failures
Despite all our expressions of moral outrage at Israel’s horrors in Gaza, we have yet to build a movement that can stop the genocide, writes Waleed Shahid. Building such a movement should be our top priority.
The Grim Timeliness of “Noir and the Blacklist”
A new Criterion series of McCarthy-era noir films is a timely collection for an era of rising government repression — though you wouldn’t know it from Criterion’s oddly subdued promotion.
Slovakia Needs an Alternative
Slovakia's far right is successful because of the retreat of class politics in the country.
We Need a Labour Brexit
Jeremy Corbyn faces increasing calls to turn Labour into the “party of Remain.” But thwarting Brexit would embolden the EU and its neoliberal dogmas — with disastrous consequences for the Left across Europe.
Ending Federalism as We Know It
A new book shows how the fragmented American state arrests democracy. What we need is nothing short of a reconstruction.
Why the Fall of the Berlin Wall Didn’t Unite Germans
Historian Katya Hoyer has caused a sensation with her new history of everyday life in East Germany. On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she spoke to Jacobin about why that state failed — and why reunification didn’t live up to expectations.
We Need Electoral Reform — and a Whole Lot More
The United States would be much better off with a multiparty, proportional representation system. But we shouldn't delude ourselves that this “one quick fix” would root out the rot that pervades America's political economy.