Last Sunday’s local and regional elections in Finland saw a big defeat for the hard-right Finns Party. Its leader called the gains for left-wing parties a “red wave” — but it’s less clear that this will halt the government’s austerity agenda.
With his 1971 book A Theory Of Justice, John Rawls became the most influential political philosopher of his time — just as the liberal agenda he supported was retreating under conservative fire. A close look at Rawls can help us understand the fate of contemporary liberalism.
Foucault was not asking the "right questions." And the answers he came up with helped disorient the Left.
Russian workers went on strike on International Women's Day 1917. They ended up toppling tsarism.
The son of a freed slave, William Cuffay played a key role in the struggle for democracy in Britain and abroad. It’s time to honor his sacrifices for the radical cause of justice and equality.
Up against a far worse assault on government and the basic components of democracy than in 2017, an opposition force to Donald Trump and Elon Musk may be cohering.
Chicago’s 2012 walkout inspired a national educators’ upsurge across the country. This week, the movement is set to strike again where it all began.
Experiments in design promise a better future for everyone, but only if they come with emancipatory politics to boot.
At Chicago’s School of the Art Institute, adjunct faculty struggle to make ends meet while trying to balance their artistic practices. We spoke with three SAIC organizers about their campaign to organize a union for part-time faculty.
Rival campaigns and hostile journalists are scraping the bottom of the barrel with their latest attacks on Bernie Sanders supporters. Now, apparently, getting owned on Twitter is “harassment,” and when a nurses’ union donates to Bernie, it’s “dark money.”
The Dutch Socialist Party went from fringe force to national contender. But lost its soul along the way.
The extraordinary longevity of the Catholic Church could make it seem like a body that floats above the everyday world of political and economic life. In reality, the Church has always been firmly linked to structures of power and property.
The Los Angeles teachers' strike isn't all about wages. At its core, the strike is a fight against a hostile takeover of public schools by the superrich.
If the labor movement is going to defeat Donald Trump and other anti-worker politicians, Painters union president Jimmy Williams Jr writes, it will need a wellspring of organized workers.
An excerpt from China Miéville's new book, October: The Story of the Russian Revolution.
Education is not a design problem with a technical solution. It’s a social and political project neoliberals want to innovate away.
Luxury condo development can't solve the affordable housing crisis — only public housing can.
Neville Alexander was a brave fighter against South African apartheid who was jailed on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela. Alexander exposed the links between racism and capitalism and opposed the ANC’s neoliberal turn after the fall of apartheid.
We read the criticism. But we’re not going to stop publishing the bullshit.
We must organize around ideas that give people something to fight for, not just something to fight against.