The Global Remittance Economy
As borders tighten, the billions of dollars migrants send home are at risk — and so are the nations that rely on them.
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A Cure Worse Than the Disease
The “fake news” hysteria is unleashing a wave of free-speech crackdowns worldwide.
Omer Bartov on Gaza: “It’s a Misnomer to Call It a War”
Historian Omer Bartov spoke to Jacobin about why scholars of the Holocaust are struggling to talk frankly about Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Sahra Wagenknecht’s Party Is Here to Stay
Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party has followed rather than resisted Germany’s shift to the right. But its perceived antiestablishment stance has likely carved it out a niche — especially on foreign policy.
Max Weber Was a Class-Conscious Champion of the Bourgeoisie
During the Cold War, US sociologists lionized Max Weber as a superior alternative to Karl Marx. For all his brilliance, Weber’s social theory glosses over the violent, exploitative nature of capitalism and serves as a pessimistic defense of the status quo.
DIE LINKE’s Road to Power: An Interview with Bernd Riexinger
Bernd Riexinger, co-chair of Germany's Left Party, talks about socialist strategy in the twenty-first century.
Nazism’s Political Victims Should Never Be Forgotten
Hitler’s forces killed almost a million civilians because of their political affiliation — most of them socialists and communists. Yet official commemoration in Germany and beyond rarely grants proper recognition to the Nazi mass murder of worker-militants.
Sahra Wagenknecht Is Less Radical Than She Seems
One of Germany’s most divisive politicians, Sahra Wagenknecht has quit the left-wing party Die Linke to form her own vehicle. Her new party has a strong “anti-establishment” aura — but behind the rhetoric is the call to return to an old class compromise.
Olaf Scholz Is Not Your Friend
Polls for today’s German election point to a once unlikely victory for Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats. The party’s campaign has focused on Scholz’s personal credentials as a future chancellor — yet his record suggests he will never stand up to the powerful.
Putting Modernism All Over the Map
It’s been 100 years since the Bauhaus school of art and design opened in the German city of Weimar. Today it’s best remembered for its clean-line, modernist designs — but behind this banal reputation lies a political project that sought to reimagine art's role after the devastation of World War I.
The German Election in Ten Graphs
On Sunday, Germany voted in a federal election that saw massive growth in support for the far-right AfD, resurgence of the socialist Die Linke party, and more losses of working-class votes for the Social Democrats. These ten graphs explain what happened.
The Far-Right Uprising
Last week a racist mob terrorized Chemnitz in eastern Germany. This violent street militancy displays the increasing confidence of an emboldened far right.
The German Model Is Dead — And What Comes Next Could Be Worse
After recent electoral defeats for the Christian Democrats, Angela Merkel’s heir faces ever louder resignation calls. Europe’s economic powerhouse no longer looks like a model of stability — and it’s the far right that’s benefiting.
The Weimar Analogy
Comparing Trump's America to fascist Germany only fuels elites' antidemocratic fantasies.
The European Elections Should Be a Wake-Up Call for the Left
Left-wing parties like Die Linke and Podemos look set to perform poorly in this weekend’s EU elections. Working-class voters are far from happy with the current EU leadership, but the Left is failing to convince them that it can change things.
Socialists Really Do Have to Talk About Bananas
It’s easy to mock the “banana discourse” that’s materialized on left-wing Twitter in the last week. But there are important issues here about how production and consumption would work under a feasible and desirable form of socialism.
The German State Claps Only for Israelis
Berlin’s film festival ended with an award for a movie on the West Bank and an Instagram hack damning Israel’s war. German cultural figures rushed to distance themselves from pro-Palestinian statements, in a craven display of conformism to state power.
Floh de Cologne: “I’d Rather Be a Communist Than a Stooge for the System”
Theatrical in their performances and Marxist in their politics, Floh de Cologne were one of the most remarkable bands to come out of West Germany’s Krautrock scene. The band tells Jacobin about their time as Europe’s only communist prog-rockers.
No, We Can’t Afford €100 Billion for Rearmament
The Bundestag has voted to make Germany the country with the highest military budget after the United States and China. For decades, Germany has tightly restricted social spending — but when the money is for weapons, no such limits apply.
The Connective Party
The task for socialist parties is to actively build the class power of working people.