Elected mayor of Vermont’s biggest city, Bernie Sanders found himself stymied by an obstructionist local establishment at every turn — until he and the movement behind him started fighting back and winning.
Democratic socialists are slowly becoming a force in New York state politics. But as the movement grows, it faces backlash and new obstacles.
Norway’s radical-left party, Rødt, has recruited thousands of members in recent years and looks set to boost its scores in Monday’s election. Seher Aydar, MP, told Jacobin about how it’s building on discontent with the established parties.
In the interwar decades, many observers of rising fascism failed to understand what was new about this threat. Clinging to the word fascism to define today’s growing reactionary forces risks falling into the same trap.
France was once the heartland of revolution. Today, its left is battered, and its far right is rising. To understand why, we have to look at François Mitterrand’s socialist government’s turn from radical reform to neoliberal austerity in the 1980s.
The Six Counties look closer than ever to reuniting with the rest of Ireland, and neoliberals are arguing for the new state to institutionalize Protestant-Unionist representation. But working-class people don’t need backward-looking identity politics — we need Ireland to stop being a low-wage tax haven.
Economist Branko Milanovic saw firsthand the soaring inequality of Russia’s 1990s transition to capitalism. He spoke to Jacobin about how Vladimir Putin’s war has plunged the country back into crisis — and placed a bomb under the globalized order.
Both parties’ 2024 campaigns claimed to be about “saving democracy.” Yet both parties ended up bought and paid for by billionaires.
The EU has launched a discussion about transforming its basic constitutional framework. The Left should push for changes that expand democracy at the pan-European level and make it easier to carry out progressive social and environmental reforms.
In December’s election, Jeremy Corbyn was constantly accused of wanting to “turn Britain back to the 1970s.” For the Right, this decade before Thatcherism is the ultimate bogeyman — presenting an age of strong welfare and trade unions as something we should fear.
Since the fiscal crisis of 1975, New York has been repeatedly lashed by austerity. Now, with the latest round of post–COVID-19 cuts on the horizon, a group of socialist legislators and movement organizations are spearheading a fight to fund public services through a campaign to tax the rich.
Deindustrialization has helped create a right-wing turn in many Midwestern towns. Long traditions of labor militancy can explain why it hasn’t in others.
The European Memoranda imposing austerity on Greece came to an end last week. But the country still has no way out of its crisis.
A stop-work order from the Trump administration last month paused construction of a wind turbine farm off the coast of Rhode Island, laying off 1,000 unionized workers. The administration is threatening to halt yet more offshore wind projects.
On Sunday, Colombia will decide between the left-wing Pacto Histórico and the Donald Trump–backed far-right candidate. The country is only the latest target of the “Donroe Doctrine,” the conviction that Latin America belongs to Washington to run or ruin.
In November, Mainers will decide whether they want to put two price-gouging private power companies out of business and take control of the state’s electric grid. So-called progressive consultants are being paid to oppose the measure.
Conservatives love to bemoan their supposed status as oppressed minorities in universities. But the college campus has long been a key site for the Right’s recruitment and training of future reactionary leaders and foot soldiers.
With the two parties of the Right entering into a coalition government, Austrians can expect more neoliberalism and more xenophobia.
Joseph Kabila’s second term as Democratic Republic of Congo president was supposed to end last November, but he’s still clinging to power, despite massive resistance.
Inflation is far from being a boring economic concept — it’s a question of who gets what in society, and how much power workers have versus bosses and shareholders.