Where Next for Finland’s Welfare State?
Li Andersson, the leader of Finland’s Left Alliance, on the country’s diminishing welfare state, rising populist right, and possible socialist future.
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Finland’s Red Women
During Finland's bloody civil war, revolutionary women struggled against exploitation in all its forms.
Socialists Actually Did Very Well Among Black Brooklyn Voters
Democratic Party hacks love to accuse socialists of lacking support from black and brown New Yorkers. But a look at the numbers in Brooklyn reveals the opposite: socialism won among black working-class voters. Support from white liberals, on the other hand, was missing.
Trump’s War on Abortion Rights Faces a Resilient Movement
As the antiabortion movement pursues harsh restrictions and fetal personhood laws, abortion providers and activists are fighting back. Despite deadly state bans and attacks on medication access, reproductive health care victories offer light in the darkness.
She Said Misses an Opportunity to Expose Harvey Weinstein’s Elite Enablers
She Said, the new film about the exposure of Harvey Weinstein, keeps its focus on the disgraced movie producer and poster villain for #MeToo — but misses a chance to expose the “girl bosses” who protected him for years.
“This Is How We Thank The People Who Died For Democracy — By Letting Billionaires Buy The Presidency?”
We spoke with Anna Grabowski, whose disruption of a Michael Bloomberg rally yesterday has gone viral on social media. For Grabowski, standing up to Bloomberg is about defending democracy itself.
Amazon Workers in North Carolina Are Building a Union
Since the Amazon Labor Union’s victory in New York, interest in organizing has surged nationwide. In North Carolina, worker-organizers are building solidarity by helping coworkers struggling with starvation wages and an increasingly punitive management.
With the Election of Xiomara Castro, a New Feeling of Hope Has Arrived in Honduras
None of Honduras’s long-standing problems have disappeared with Xiomara Castro’s election as president. But the Honduran people have struck a blow against rapacious capitalists at home and Washington’s meddling from abroad.
When Polish Women Revolted
Looking back at the struggle that, two years ago, defeated a historic anti-abortion bill in Poland.
Pearl Is a Heartland Horror Fit for Our Times
Martin Scorsese loves Ti West’s “demented Disney film,” Pearl — and you will too.
Three Thousand Years of Longing Is the Genie-Professor Love Story You Never Asked For
Three Thousand Years of Longing, director George Miller’s whimsical follow-up to Mad Max: Fury Road, finds him returning to the gentle storytelling he perfected in the Babe films. Too bad this one’s a slog.
Liberals and the Strike
The wave of teacher strikes is a challenge not just to GOP austerity, but to Democratic Party neoliberalism.
Nancy Pelosi Helped Drive the Democrats’ Degeneration
Nancy Pelosi has announced her retirement after decades as a shrewd political operator. A genuine leader in a party that lacks them, Pelosi bears a large share of the blame for the Democrats’ embrace of bland corporate centrism.
The Grind Never Stops in Radu Jude’s Latest Film
Filmmaker Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World follows a production assistant on a long day’s drive to screen injured Romanian workers for a workplace safety video — painting a bleak, darkly funny portrait of a hollowed-out world.
A Human, Not a Myth
We should resist constructing self-serving myths about political figures — even someone as heroic as Winnie Mandela.
The Gender Pay Gap Is Bigger Than You Thought
Advocates often claim women make 20 percent less than men. It’s even worse: 40 percent.
We Need Radical Energy in the Fight for Abortion Rights
The Supreme Court is about to gut abortion rights in America. The anti-abortion movement is winning — the Left can’t turn the tide without connecting reproductive rights to broader progressive struggles throughout the country.
Viktor Orbán Versus the Enlightenment
In Viktor Orbán's Hungary, anti-immigrant paranoia reigns and basic democratic rights are under assault.
The Enemy Within
Leaked messages from Labour Party staff littered with casual racism and sexism show that they worked against Jeremy Corbyn and wanted to keep the Tories in power.
Simone de Beauvoir Understood the Link Between Gender and Class Oppression
The Second Sex is rightly celebrated as a classic work of feminist theory. But it’s often forgotten that Simone de Beauvoir saw it as a socialist text carefully anatomizing the relationship between gender and class oppression.