The Problem with the “Canadian Model”
The successes of Canadian single-payer are overstated — not because of outsized government involvement, but because public provision isn’t generous enough.
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In Defense of the Work Ethic
Conservatives have often embraced the work ethic in order to attack the poor and unemployed. In her latest book, the philosopher Elizabeth Anderson argues for reclaiming the concept, explaining that its origins lie in a radical critique of the idle rich.
A Cross-Atlantic Plan to Break Capital’s Control
Bernie Sanders’s plan for worker-owned funds isn’t just notable because it could lead us toward a democratized, sustainable, socialist economy. It’s also the product of a growing collaboration between the Left in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Breaking With Austerity
Thomas Mulcair’s ouster provides an opening for left activists inside and outside Canada’s New Democratic Party.
A Green New Deal for Decarceration
To save the planet, a Green New Deal has to transform our entire society. Part of that transformation must include the deconstruction of our system of mass incarceration.
Market-Based Health Care Is Screwing Rural America
Single payer would be a huge boon for small-town residents.
America’s Public Health Crisis Demands a Populist Solution
While Joe Biden protected a failed health care status quo, Donald Trump promises disruption. But we need more: a radical reimagining of public health that empowers working people as both recipients and providers, not consumers in a broken system.
Economic Democracy, If We Can Keep It
This week, Bernie Sanders proposed creating worker-owned funds that put more profits and control in the hands of workers rather than executives. Such funds could be transformational — if we can stop corporations from weakening or destroying them.
Catalonia: Past and Future
As Catalonia prepares to declare independence we examine the history and politics behind its independence movement.
We Can Beat the Right With a Left-Wing Affordability Agenda
In her new book, economist Isabella Weber explains how inflation has helped drive the far right’s ascendance around the developed world — and how effective price regulation can promote affordability and boost the Left.
The Left Needs Its Own Vision for a United Ireland
A debate on Ireland’s political future if partition comes to an end is already up and running. Left-wing forces need to put forward their own agenda instead of allowing establishment liberals to dominate the conversation about Irish unity.
The Dead End of “Anti-Racist Discrimination”
What a failed racial equity program tells us about the pitfalls of race targeting.
The Homelessness Crisis Is a Crisis of Democracy
Homelessness is often thought of either as an issue of individual moral failings or merely of bad policy. It should instead be seen as a moral crisis for our democracy, one that demands transformative economic reforms.
Debating Catalonia
Izquierda Unida MP Alberto Garzón debates the Catalan independence referendum with the CUP’s Pau Llonch.
The “Happiness Industry” Is Anti-Political by Design
Happiness guru Arthur C. Brooks has found fertile ground in the self-help industry to disseminate his right-wing agenda, making a pretty penny convincing liberals that welfare programs and universal benefits have nothing to do with Americans’ well-being.
Only Socialism Can Put an End to Exploitation
The exploitation of workers is central to the functioning of capitalism. The socialist argument is simple: we can live in a world without such exploitation.
Living, Not Just Surviving
Working-class movements must place social and ecological reproduction at the heart of their vision of the future.
The Third Way Isn’t Dead Yet
Die-hard opponents of Corbynism can look to the Australian Labor Party as a model of non-radical social democracy. That’s exactly why the party needs to change.
Looking for the Way Out of Brazil’s Crisis
Brazil’s election campaign has seen sharp clashes between the Workers’ Party and Jair Bolsanaro’s far-right movement. But political strife and soldiers in the streets also reflect a deeper economic malaise.