The rise of France’s far right is often blamed on increasing labor precarity. In fact, Marine Le Pen’s party is backed by the parts of the working class most hostile to the values of social solidarity — including in the workplace.
Former Bernie Sanders campaign chair Faiz Shakir is running an insurgent campaign for chair of the Democratic National Committee, focused on bringing the working class back into the party’s fold. Jacobin spoke to him about it.
The level of anti-capitalist sentiment in the US today hasn’t been seen since the 1930s. Labor radicals seized that moment to create the pivotal Congress of Industrial Organizations. We should take lessons from their achievements — and their missteps.
To drum up support for World War I, Australia’s ruling class tried to cancel the 1915–17 seasons of the Victorian Football League, labeling fans “truculent shirkers” and “hoodlums.” This did not go over well with the game’s working-class fans.
In the Colombian city of Barrancabermeja, a century of violence has disintegrated working-class power.
We spoke to Bernie Sanders about alleged health insurance CEO shooter Luigi Mangione, the crisis of for-profit health care in America, why only a mass movement can win Medicare for All, and how to fight the growing share of working-class votes for the Right.
Head of Britain’s RMT rail union Mick Lynch has in recent years become a household name. His stout defense of his members has won him wide acclaim — yet his newfound fame also reflects just how rare such voices are in British public life.
After last week’s defeat, our immediate task must be to protect the current political project within the Labour Party — the only one able to meaningfully unite the broad working class.
Working-class voters already back Medicare for All. Framed like Social Security — as a benefit earned from work, not a handout — it can reach two-thirds support.
Gabriel Boric’s presidential victory and a new constitution are the crowning achievements of Chile’s broad socialist movement. Now comes the hard part: fulfilling a vision of working-class prosperity that stretches back to Salvador Allende and beyond.
Capitalism routinely creates crises for the working class. To transform society, we need to create a crisis for capitalists.
The teachers strike wave is the most important development in working-class politics in years. Combined with the rise of socialism, chances for a major transformation leftward in American politics are better than ever.
With its ongoing strike against the Big Three, the UAW is attempting to recapture the fighting spirit of its heroic early days. The union’s militant approach marks a sharp break with the recent past — and could spark more insurgency across the labor movement.
Pierre Poilievre, the new leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, presents himself as a friend of the working class. Some New Democrats claim they’ll fight Poilievre’s rhetoric with class war, but is the party up for it?
A new battleground poll from Jacobin and the Center for Working-Class Politics / YouGov breaks down support by social class. Kamala Harris leads narrowly in Pennsylvania, but Donald Trump leads among both unionized and manual workers.
Ballot initiatives can push policy to the left, rebuild a fighting working-class political base, and prepare movements to govern democratically.
Like our leading figures, our new left is young and highly educated. Is that tanking our chances at building a mass working-class coalition?
German socialists knew the craze for schnapps was a plague on working-class life. They fought it by building their organizations around beer.
Today's capitalism may have increased the power of managers relative to owners of capital. But this shift doesn't mean a friendlier ruling class — if we want a better world, it’s still up to the working class to make it.
Shawn Fain, the firebrand president of the UAW, is modeling exactly the kind of labor leader we need right now: one who boldly names the billionaire class as the enemy — and galvanizes workers themselves to fight back.