The murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia provided a harrowing demonstration of Malta’s toxic nexus of political and corporate power. But the fight against corruption can’t rely on moral outrage alone — it has to free the mass of people from an economic model based on endemic patronage.
This winter France has seen the biggest strike wave in decades, as workers resist planned pension reforms. As Communist MP André Chassaigne told us, the strikers aren’t just opposing Emmanuel Macron’s neoliberal policies — they’re fighting to save the French social model itself.
Four years ago, Ulf Kristersson promised a Holocaust survivor he’d never cooperate with the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats. Now he’s prime minister of a government dependent on their support — an unholy alliance of liberals and the far right.
Going beyond the boundaries of the Ivory Tower is a good thing. But public engagement is still work.
In an interview with Jacobin, economist Stephanie Kelton argues that we're seeing a paradigm shift away from free-market dogmas and austerity.
Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union was, unsurprisingly, depraved. But the speech showcased the kind of bloodthirsty rhetoric we can expect from his reelection campaign in the fall — rhetoric that a weak-tea centrist liberal candidate won't be able to defeat.
The editors of a new collection of essays argue that we can’t ignore the Chinese Revolution and its impact on the world.
The Canadian union Unifor is currently blockading an oil refinery in Regina, Saskatchewan. It’s an important example of what democratic, militant, and solidarity-based unionism can look like.
Two 1940s Disney features show how the film industry learned to sell American empire.
John Bolton is a glassy-eyed fanatic who wants to wage war on the entire world. Miraculously and thankfully, his tenure in the Trump White House before being fired by the president was largely a failure.
We need a socialism that goes beyond capitalism. And not just for moral reasons.
Joe Biden can’t stop lying. He lies for popularity, he lies to protect billionaires’ profits, and he lies to cover his own misdeeds. If he were to quit lying, Biden would be exposed for who he actually is: a happy stooge of industry trying to squash the rising demand for a better world.
The apparent death of Trumpcare is more than a resounding victory — it's a case study for how to organize in the Trump era.
Marek Broderick is the youngest member of the Burlington City Council. He’s using his seat to bridge the gap between student activism and the city’s broader working-class struggles.
Amnesty International has denounced Israeli rule over the Palestinians as a form of apartheid. But the British government is trying to outlaw the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign and stop it from using the same tactics that helped liberate South Africa.
Domenico Losurdo was an acute critic of liberal hypocrisy and double standards in history writing.
Mass deportations may hurt big business and working people alike. But Donald Trump is betting that the fallout will hit Democrats harder — and cement a lasting right-wing majority.
In 1952 the Harvard grad Victor Grossman defected to East Germany, hoping to help build socialism on the ruins of Nazism. Thirty years after that state collapsed, he insists that we should see it as a land of contradictions, not just a totalitarian monolith.
In the United States today, as in 1990s Russia, for a lot of intellectuals, total nihilism seems more plausible than hope for even modest reform.
US officials just admitted they don’t know where their arms shipments to Ukraine will actually end up, and that they could fall into dangerous hands.