The Anti-Poverty Swindle
Corporate-driven development partnerships benefit their sponsors more than those in the Global South.
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A Long Way to Go
Jeremy Corbyn on his surprising rise to the top of the Labour Party and the challenges he now faces.
Ireland’s Unfinished Revolution
The revolutionary period sparked by the 1916 Easter Rising offered a vision of a truly democratic Ireland.
Work Not Play
The music industry is famously precarious — but some artists are fighting back.
The Chicago School
How Chicago elites imported charters, closed neighborhood schools, and snuffed out creativity.
Labour in Name Only
Despite its working-class roots, the Irish Labour Party never became an effective vehicle for social democracy.
The Meaning of Theresa May
Theresa May as prime minister, like Thatcher before her, represents a woman given equal opportunity to oppress other women.
The Resilient Robert Mugabe
The gun, the bullet, and the fist are Mugabe’s trusted methods of statecraft. He won't be afraid to continue to use them to stay in power.
Evict the Landlords
Evicted sharply details the injustices renters face. But the book's "solution" would end up enriching landlords.
Justin Trudeau Is Not Your Friend
Everybody loves Justin Trudeau. But his policies are bad for workers, the environment, and struggling people everywhere.
The Other Chicago Teachers’ Strike
The Chicago Teachers Union says they're walking off the job next week -- and charter school teachers might be joining them.
Twenty-First Century Victorians
The nineteenth-century bourgeoisie used morality to assert class dominance — something elites still do today.
The Deflationary Mind
Mark Lilla’s prosecution of radical thinkers in the name of intellectual seriousness can only lead to a flat and lifeless politics.
The Forgotten Cameroon War
French officials like to project a sunny view of their country’s colonial past. Tens of thousands dead in Cameroon would tell a different story.
Safety Pins and Swastikas
The frameworks of liberal identity politics and "alt-right" white nationalism are proving curiously compatible.
When George Wallace Came to Town
Donald Trump's appeal to some suffering white workers shouldn't surprise us. George Wallace did the same thing four decades ago.
A Demand for Sanctuary
As Trump's threats to immigrants grow, we should look back to the 1980s Central American sanctuary movement's victories.
No Rent for Rats
From Tompkins Square to Zuccotti Park, New Yorkers have long resisted their city’s neoliberal housing initiatives.
Breitbart for the Left
We need left-wing media outlets to build socialism. And the late German communist Willi Munzenberg shows us how it can be done.