Viktor Orbán Is Finally Under Siege
Hungary's far-right leader Viktor Orbán is trying to force more overtime on workers. The country's trade unions are finally planning to fight back.
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The War on AMLO
The Mexican and international right are united in their efforts to delegitimatize the AMLO presidency.
A Catastrophe Foretold
US intervention in Venezuela wouldn't just be a catastrophe for that country — it would be a disaster for neighboring Colombia too.
The Cunning of Unreason
Critics of populism lament the rise of “emotion-driven” politics. But instead of asking why politics has become so “irrational,” we should ask why people are so angry in the first place.
The Worrying Rise of Spain’s Far Right
In today's general election, Spain’s far right Vox party is set to enter Congress for the first time. And it’s already building alliances with the mainstream center-right.
Power Has Returned to Power
The defeats for Barcelona mayor Ada Colau and Manuela Carmena in Madrid compound recent woes for Podemos. As popular movements decline, the Spanish left’s onetime promise has given way to the stabilization of the center.
Karl Marx Is Useful for Our Time, Not Just His
The financial crash didn’t kill off neoliberalism — it actually embedded its logic ever deeper in our lives. Marxist geographer David Harvey says the only way to end this system for good is to change how we fight it.
Solidarity With the People of Kashmir
India’s brutal occupation of Kashmir is only getting worse. The situation there demands our attention and those struggling for justice need our solidarity.
How the Left Should Respond to a New Global Slump
If the global economy comes skidding to a halt sometime soon, the results for the vast majority of people around the world would be miserable. The Left needs to be prepared for it.
Lawfare: The Technocrats’ War on Democracy
The jailing of former Brazilian president Lula shows the power of “lawfare,” the use of spurious legal action for political ends. Former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa and France Insoumise’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon discuss how legal harassment has become a key weapon against the Left around the world.
When Socialist Hungary Went Neoliberal
The events of 1989 are usually remembered as an unprecedented extension of the “free market” to formerly socialist countries. But as the history of 1970s Hungary shows, neoliberal restructuring had never been limited to the West — and spread East long before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
“A Feminism Aimed at Liberating All Women Must Be Anti-Capitalist”
Women workers, people of color, and white men in the Rust Belt may not see each other as natural allies. But as Nancy Fraser tells Jacobin, there is a path to uniting the social majority — so long as we recognize our common enemy in capitalism.
Lenín Moreno Has Betrayed Ecuador. Now the Country Is in Revolt.
Ecuador’s Lenín Moreno promised a less “divisive” approach than his left-wing predecessor Rafael Correa. But Ecuadorians are seeing through his con and resisting austerity and neoliberal reforms.
Macri and the Argentine Right Failed. But What’s Next?
Mauricio Macri’s time in power was an unmitigated disaster for working people in Argentina. As the country votes today, it’s time to completely reject his failed neoliberal politics.
Fear of a Populist Planet
“Populism” is today employed as a bogeyman by liberals and centrists alike. Is there anything worth salvaging in the concept?
The Far Right Is Growing in Uruguay
Uruguay goes to the polls today for its second-round general election. The outcome is unclear, but a new coalition between mainstream and far-right parties sets a worrying new precedent in Latin American politics.
“We’re Not Organizing the Poor, We’re the Poor Organizing”
Few artists blend hip-hop and leftist politics like Rebel Diaz. We sat down with the group to talk about American imperialism, the current mass movement in Chile against neoliberalism, and the connection between hip-hop and community organizing in times of alienation and austerity.
Our American Zion
The racism and red-baiting of Bari Weiss’s latest book, How to Fight Anti-Semitism, isn’t an accident. It reflects her deep conflation of her own Judaism with American exceptionalism and the US global empire.
Regrouping the Bolivian Left
Bolivia is still reeling from the coup that unseated Evo Morales last November. Amid repression and intimidation from a fortified Right now in power, the Left is preparing itself for new presidential elections.
To Rebuild Our Towns and Cities, We Need to Design a Green Stimulus
The COVID-19 quarantine has exposed the importance of parks, sidewalks, and other public spaces to our collective well-being. To stitch the world back together once the pandemic recedes, we should enact a massive green stimulus that builds out our public infrastructure in beautiful, imaginative, low-carbon ways.