Islamophobia at the Beach
The persistent targeting of Muslims in France requires a left response.
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Arwa Salih and the Lost Generation of Egyptian Communism
Two generations of Egyptian Marxists debated how they should respond to Nasser and the system he founded. Some were defeated, some were co-opted — and their failure still haunts the Egyptian left today, fifty years after Nasser’s death.
Democrats’ Lies About Tax Breaks Sound a Lot Like Republicans’
Against the opposition of AOC and other progressives, key Democrats are demanding a tax break for their wealthy donors more regressive than even Trump’s notorious tax cuts.
Italy’s Longest-Ever Factory Occupation Shows How Workers Can Transform Production
For two years, the GKN auto parts plant in Florence, Italy, has been occupied by laid-off workers. It's the longest factory occupation in Italian history — and its retooling for green production shows how workers can reorganize the economy while saving jobs.
Amazon Workers Are Organizing, and Elected Officials Are Supporting Them
A reborn workers’ movement needs both organized workplace militancy and left-wing politicians that back them. Sunday’s Staten Island Amazon rallies — attended by Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and other elected officials — featured both.
Queer Liberation Is a Labor Issue
Today, corporations see Pride Month as another chance to sell their products. But the greatest gains for the LGBTQ movement came through fighting corporations, challenging workplace discrimination, and building unions.
Five Ways Bosses Fight Labor
Why are unions so weak in the US? Because for well over a century, employers have used every tactic in the book to crush them.
Why Bernie Is the True Feminist Choice
For feminists, this election presents a clear choice — between advancing the interests of 1 percent of women and fighting for the liberation of the rest. Bernie Sanders is on the side of the 99 percent.
The UAW Has Disrupted Business as Usual. And They May Turn Up the Pressure Tomorrow.
The UAW has given the Big Three until noon tomorrow to make progress at the bargaining table or face a strike escalation. One week in, the historic walkout has already left politicians and bosses alike scrambling amid an utterly justified worker action.
Greece’s Syriza Has Hit the End of the Road
When Greece’s left-wing Syriza elected Stefanos Kasselakis — a former registered Republican and businessman — as its leader, it marked a low point for the party. Kasselakis has since left Syriza, but he has left behind a party without a sense of purpose.
Zohran Mamdani Wants to Reclaim Efficiency From the Right
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is trying to demonstrate that the public sector can match or even surpass the private sector in excellence. It’s high time the Left reclaimed the value of “efficiency” from right-wing forces of privatization and austerity.
How to Escape the Present
The desire to radically challenge capitalism is widespread and growing. Naomi Klein’s new book is an important contribution to that project.
The Second Emancipation
Until his assassination in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr led an unheralded struggle for economic justice.
A Very British Dystopia After Brexit
Set in Britain in the near future, the newly published sequel to the 1982 classic A Very British Coup presents a hellish but believable vision of political disillusionment and post-Brexit malaise.
A Very British Dystopia
A Very British Coup embraced the intrigues of class war, but its sequel falls prey to the mundanities of culture war.
Four Reasons the European Left Lost
The setbacks for centrist parties in the European elections showed that the EU’s crisis is anything but over. Yet the Left’s lack of strategy and identity has hobbled its ability to provide an alternative.
American Carnage
Trump's inauguration speech exemplified everything seductive and dangerous about the far right's rhetoric.
The Forgotten German Marxist Who Criticized Imperialism
German theorist Fritz Sternberg, who wrote on the rise of the Nazis, the Cold War, and decolonization, remains an underappreciated figure in Western Marxism. His work offers crucial insights about the centrality of internationalism to socialist politics.
George Wallace’s ’68
For every American won over to radicalism in 1968, there was another captured by George Wallace’s right-wing populism.