The Long Game
Ahead of today's Argentine elections, Workers' Left Front candidate Nicolás del Caño discusses his coalition's prospects.
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Canada’s Noxious Conservatives Are Duking It Out for Party Leadership
The position of Canada’s Conservative Party boss is up for grabs. On offer from the three front-runners are right-wing populist libertarianism, Tory nostalgia, and evangelical culture war. Canada’s left should pay attention.
We Can Move Beyond Political Polarization Through a Working-Class Economic Agenda
US politics have become hyperpolarized along partisan lines. But they don’t have to be. Millions of Americans worry more about paying the rent or medical bills than what’s on cable news. They can be won over by a working-class economic agenda.
No Direction Home
The far right has made breakthroughs in old Communist heartlands across Europe. A new memoir blames this on the slow and painful erosion of class politics.
Argentina’s Life-or-Death Women’s Movement
When Argentinian women strike tomorrow, they'll do so in resistance to a terrifying wave of femicides.
RINOs (Resisters In Name Only)
Republican grandstanding against Trump while backing nearly all of his policies isn’t resistance — it’s just a cynical PR move.
Don’t Overstate the Divide Between the Campus and the Working Class
Leftists shouldn’t counterpose working-class voters on the one hand and college-educated voters on the other. Our strategy can combine a working-class economic program with a progressive approach to social and cultural questions.
Italian Communism Remembered
An interview on il manifesto, the PCI, and the road not taken between Stalinism and social democracy.
2022 Was the Year Republicans Got Too Weird for America
With the rise of polarization, the hard-core ideological right and left have become more visible to normie voters than ever before. In 2022, American voters made it clear which side’s ultras it finds more unacceptable: the weirdos of the Trumpian right.
Medicare Turns Fifty-Four Today. We Need to Defend and Expand It
Fifty-four years ago today, Medicare became the law of the land. The program has been massively successful despite continued efforts to destroy it. While defending Medicare, our next step is clear: Medicare for All.
A People’s Church?
Pope Francis may be inspiring hope in the church, but Catholic radicals point the way toward an even brighter future.
Actually, the Democrats Don’t Care About Identity
The Democrats like to trumpet their commitment to group representation and multicultural sensitivity. But they’re happy to throw those principles overboard if it will help them attack the Left.
Six Reasons for Optimism
The Trump campaign's bluster can't hide the fact that modern conservatism has lost confidence and direction.
Abolish the Senate
The US Senate is one of the world’s most undemocratic legislatures. It needs to go.
With Pedro Castillo, Peru Has a Chance to Vanquish Fujimorismo
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.
A Women’s Strike for the 99 Percent
On March 8, 2018, millions of women across Spain struck for International Women’s Day. The nationwide shutdown showed how we can turn our personal hardships into a powerful collective resistance.
The Left Alternative to Peronism
Argentines go to the polls Sunday. What’s the state of the country’s left, electorally and in the streets?
El Salvador’s Backslide
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.
The Supreme Court Is Still Repeatedly Ruling in Favor of the Ultra-Wealthy
The Supreme Court has made some surprising recent rulings defending rights for LGBT people and immigrants. Those rulings should be applauded — but they also shouldn't distract us from how the court is continuing to erode democracy and worsen inequality with new rulings that are huge boons for the rich.
Why They Hate the Women’s March
Both the Right and the center have every reason to fear the Women’s March — it's advancing a radical vision of feminism for the 99 percent.