Democrats are going beyond refusing to give Americans an affirmative reason to vote for them: in sabotaging their own purported agenda around Biden’s Build Back Better bill, they seem to be trying to lose to the authoritarians in the GOP they claim to oppose.
The Supreme Court has been a reactionary institution for most of its history, law professor Sam Moyn tells Jacobin. We need to take on its power and fight for real democracy in the United States.
The Catholic Church waged a century-long war against the Irish left.
One month ago, women in Argentina walked off work to demand an end to violence, fair pay, and full reproductive rights.
In the wake of an electoral rout and growing internal divisions, El Salvador’s left is facing its starkest crisis in decades.
Sweden’s extraordinary wave of reforms in the 1970s, an era of explosive radicalism, reveal the achievements — and the limits — of social democracy.
Minnesota is still living in the long shadow of George Floyd’s murder, the uprising it sparked, and the backlash that followed. Keith Ellison’s reelection bid for the state’s attorney general is playing out in that shadow.
Pope Francis may be inspiring hope in the church, but Catholic radicals point the way toward an even brighter future.
With its loss of the presidency in El Salvador’s recent elections, the gains of the revolutionary project launched by the FMLN in 1980 are in serious jeopardy.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò responds to John-Baptiste Oduor's recent review of Elite Capture.
Neil Gorsuch's originalist philosophy isn't uniquely unbiased or respectful of democracy. It's a handmaiden of American reaction.
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled to remove Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 election ballot. The attempt will likely fail and backfire — but it's indicative of American liberalism's current distaste for the unpredictable messiness of democracy.
An interview on il manifesto, the PCI, and the road not taken between Stalinism and social democracy.
Texas governor Greg Abbott has forever changed the state’s politics. To undo the damage he has caused, we can’t rely on top-down initiatives. We need a working-class alternative.
Fujimorismo is the glue holding together right-wing politics in Peru. In the second round of the country's elections, trade unionist Pedro Castillo has the potential to destroy it. But he’ll have to unite the Left first.
Podemos, Spain’s new leftist party, is challenging austerity and winning public support.
Democrats’ midterm strategy was to campaign on issues where they had an edge and little else. If they don’t start to offer voters a meaningful comprehensive vision for the future, Republicans are poised to emerge victorious from the coming period of gridlock.
An upsurge in business activism joined with libertarians and conservatives to usher in neoliberalism's dominance by the 1980s election of Ronald Reagan. A key piece of that dominance: Ayn Rand’s philosophy of optimistic cruelty, nearly perfect in its immorality.
When Argentinian women strike tomorrow, they'll do so in resistance to a terrifying wave of femicides.
In supporting marriage equality, Ireland rejected the conservative structures that have shaped the country for centuries.