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.
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The Dead End of “Anti-Racist Discrimination”
What a failed racial equity program tells us about the pitfalls of race targeting.
Catalonia: Past and Future
As Catalonia prepares to declare independence we examine the history and politics behind its independence movement.
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.
Australia’s “JobKeeper” Scheme Falls Short by Design
The Australian “JobKeeper” scheme will subsidize the wages of many throughout the course of this pandemic, but more than 2 million workers are set to be left out entirely. What’s more, the scheme undermines collective bargaining agreements, giving more power to employers in a shift that threatens to far outlive this crisis.
Two MPs Reflect on Sixty Years of Canada’s New Democratic Party
As Canada’s NDP marks its sixtieth anniversary, we talk to two of the party’s MPs about its past, present, and future prospects.
Debating Catalonia
Izquierda Unida MP Alberto Garzón debates the Catalan independence referendum with the CUP’s Pau Llonch.
The Australian Greens Must Democratize Their Party Structures
With Adam Bandt as leader, the Australian Greens are charting a leftward course and developing the country’s most ambitious policy proposals. The next step is to build a strong movement behind it — and to achieve that, it will need a democratically empowered membership.
Breaking With Austerity
Thomas Mulcair’s ouster provides an opening for left activists inside and outside Canada’s New Democratic Party.
The AI Revolution Could Usher In a New Age of Stagnation
Governments and tech moguls have bet hundreds of billions on artificial intelligence. If the technology does what it promises, we will have to radically rethink how the global economy functions.
Living, Not Just Surviving
Working-class movements must place social and ecological reproduction at the heart of their vision of the future.
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 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.
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.
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.
Market-Based Health Care Is Screwing Rural America
Single payer would be a huge boon for small-town residents.
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.
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.
The Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr wasn’t just a brilliant orator and organizer. He was also a groundbreaking thinker.