It Started in Wisconsin
The rise and fall of Wisconsin’s remarkable 2011 uprising holds lessons for a post-Janus world.
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A Newly Rediscovered Article by Antonio Gramsci on the Fascists’ March on Rome
When Benito Mussolini’s Italian Fascists pulled off their coup d’état in October 1922, Antonio Gramsci was in Moscow — and his first article responding to the events appeared in Russian. It was virtually lost for a century. We publish it in English for the first time.
Nicola Sturgeon Left Scotland’s Independence Movement Weaker
Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, is resigning. Throughout her rule, she has been famed as a savvy political operator — yet her strategy has consistently weakened the Scottish independence movement that first brought her to power.
A Constitutional Revolution
The Constitution has strangled American democracy for long enough. We need a constituent assembly.
It’s Not Enough to Be Against “the Monopolies”
Antitrust is, and was, an extremely limited strategy for reining in corporations. We need a broader project to democratize the economy and the state.
LA Teachers Won a Safe Schools Reopening by Organizing
United Teachers of Los Angeles won a strong health and safety agreement ahead of returning to classrooms later this month. They won it the old-fashioned way: organizing rank-and-file teachers to demand an agreement that benefits teachers, parents, and students.
US-China Tensions Are Escalating. What Does That Mean for the Left?
A key challenge for the Left in the coming years will be to reject attempts to stoke tensions with China — tensions the Biden administration has made worse in its early months.
On the Front Lines of the Populism Wars
Left populism might be working in practice — but does it work in theory? A review of Chantal Mouffe’s latest salvo in the “populism wars.”
Stopping Climate Change Will Never Be “Good Business”
Climate activist and writer Bill McKibben's new book is an excellent account of how urgent the climate crisis in front of us is. But it stumbles in trying to prescribe green capitalist solutions to a problem that requires systematic change.
Black Liberation and Left Renewal
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation compels us to respond to Trump by building multiracial solidarity and socialist alternatives.
What the Women’s Strike Means
The International Women's Strike is about taking on the degradations of capitalism in all spheres of life.
A Guaranteed Income Can Increase Workers’ Bargaining Power
Basic income schemes are no silver bullet to make up for the loss of well-paid union jobs. But they can allow workers say no to the most thankless, low-wage work — and provide a platform from which to rebuild our bargaining power.
Russell Vought Wants to Burn the Government Down
Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought has spent his life trying to cripple the ability of the state to benefit anyone but the rich, to the point that it can’t be put back together. With Donald Trump in office, he can finally do it.
Israel’s Bloated New Government Is Entering Dangerous Waters
Benjamin Netayahu’s newly convened government, the largest in Israeli history, is also facing the country’s greatest economic crisis in decades. As signs of public disaffection start to grow, it may try to avoid challenges to its power by provoking a violent confrontation with Palestinians.
Rustin the Liberal Biopic Versus Rustin the Labor Activist
Netflix’s new feel-good Bayard Rustin biopic, Rustin, claims the civil rights hero has been forgotten because of his sexuality. But it was his fiery and provocative class politics that makes him both controversial and prophetic today.
France’s Communists Hold Back the Far Right, for Now
Blue-collar voters in northern France are often seen as a natural base for Marine Le Pen’s surging far right. Yet while her party has made major inroads in this electorate, local elections saw Communists resist what seemed like inevitable defeat.
The Revolutionary Humanism of Frantz Fanon
The philosopher, psychiatrist, and revolutionary militant Frantz Fanon was a key figure in the struggle against European colonialism. Fanon’s innovative thinking on racism and its relationship to class oppression still speaks vividly to the present.
“Who Cares?” Gave Us Trump
On a very bad liberal habit that just won’t quit.
A Place Called Lambeth
The Labour left mounted a grassroots challenge to Thatcherism in the 1980s, only to be undermined by their own party’s leadership.
Sweden’s Left Has to Show Working People That the State Will Protect Them
Sweden is a famous for its welfare system, but recent decades’ neoliberal reforms have made life for working people ever more precarious. The Left Party’s new chair, Nooshi Dadgostar, told Jacobin why rebuilding a strong safety net is decisive for shielding Swedes from the pandemic — and reassuring workers worried by the green transition.