Thank You, Jean-Luc Mélenchon
Jean-Luc Mélenchon narrowly failed to make the runoff in France’s presidential election. But there are signs that the French left can come back stronger than ever.
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Why Unions Should Support Black Lives Matter
The Black Lives Matter movement doesn't just need allies who condemn the murder of George Floyd — it needs comrades in the fight against racial injustice. Trade unionists have to join that fight.
A History of Resistance
Chicago's Dyett 12 hunger strikers are part of a long history of struggle in the city for public education.
Democracy, Without the Majority Class
Workers are frozen out of politics in both the United States and Britain.
The Biden Administration Sat Out the Warrior Met Coal Miners’ Strike
Joe Biden promised to run the most pro-union administration in US history. But it offered no support to Alabama coal miners who were on strike for nearly two years.
Revolution Without Compromise
Before Marx, there was Auguste Blanqui.
Communists Like My Uncle Fought to Expand American Democracy. Fascists Fought to Destroy It.
My uncle, LeRoy H. Wood, spent years in a federal prison for “conspiring to teach the advocacy of the overthrow of the US government by force and violence.” He was a Communist peacefully organizing for civil and economic rights. And he was punished to a far greater extent than Donald Trump will ever be.
Reading Karl Marx in Beijing
100 years ago today, Chinese students launched the May Fourth Movement. While Chinese officials invoke the movement to reinforce the status quo, a new generation is rediscovering its insurgent roots.
Finishing What Thatcher Started
The UK Trade Union Bill is a brazen attempt to crush worker power and restrict democratic rights.
Salvador Allende’s Brief Experiment in Radical Democracy in Chile Began 50 Years Ago Today
Socialist leader Salvador Allende became Chile’s president fifty years ago today. Allende’s election inaugurated a unique experiment in radical democracy that was cut short by Augusto Pinochet’s brutal US-backed coup.
The Redneck Menace
White Rural Rage is another attempt to blame the Democratic Party’s decline in rural counties on mean and bigoted white Americans.
Today Is Our Day
This May Day, we should celebrate the historic triumphs of the labor movement and the struggles to come.
Bernie’s Plan for Racial Justice
The micro-scandals alleging that Bernie Sanders doesn’t take racism seriously won't end any time soon. We should call them what they are: cynical attacks on a politician whose commitment to racial justice is intertwined with fighting economic inequality.
Mark Rudd’s Lessons From SDS and the Weather Underground for Today’s Radicals
Mark Rudd was Columbia’s Students for a Democratic Society chapter president in 1968, when the university erupted in protest against the Vietnam War and racism. He then cofounded the Weather Underground. In an interview with Jacobin, he reflects on what radicals like him got right and got wrong, and what today’s socialists should learn from his experiences.
The Spirit of the Americas Against the Donroe Doctrine
New York City’s Avenue of the Americas reflects a New Deal gesture toward hemispheric cooperation. April 14, Día de las Américas, offers a chance to revive that spirit by affirming Pan-American solidarity, self-determination, and social equality.
America’s First Red Scare
For many of its ideologues, a slaveholding Confederacy was meant to be a bulwark against radical politics of all stripes.
The Socialist Case for Reparations
Class politics and reparations aren't at odds — they're part of the same struggle.
Four Lessons From the UAW’s Turn Toward Class Struggle
Chris Brooks, former chief of staff to United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain, was key to an attempt to transform a once mighty union hobbled by corruption and lethargy. Here’s what he learned from that process.
Francesco Misiano, the Italian Communist Who Brought Battleship Potemkin to the West
The Italian Communist Party was founded 100 years ago today. One of its most remarkable early militants was Francesco Misiano — a keen internationalist who fought gun in hand in the German Revolution before becoming a leading light of Soviet cinema.
“Policing Is Fundamentally a Tool of Social Control to Facilitate Our Exploitation”
The brutality we have repeatedly seen meted out by American police all over the country isn’t a bug of our political-economic system — it’s a feature.