Sohrab Ahmari’s critique of capitalist power is surprising and compelling. But as long as he remains committed to unjust hierarchies of power in gender and sexuality, he can’t be a coalition partner with the Left.
The coordinated attack on trans rights in state legislatures across the US is built on a foundation of hateful paranoia and right-wing lies. But however unpopular anti-trans bills are, the human costs are real: thousands are migrating from anti-trans states.
Historian Katya Hoyer has caused a sensation with her new history of everyday life in East Germany. On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she spoke to Jacobin about why that state failed — and why reunification didn’t live up to expectations.
Conservatives have often embraced the work ethic in order to attack the poor and unemployed. In her latest book, the philosopher Elizabeth Anderson argues for reclaiming the concept, explaining that its origins lie in a radical critique of the idle rich.
Cologne University has canceled philosopher Nancy Fraser’s planned visiting professorship after learning she signed a pro-Palestine letter. In her first interview after the cancellation, Fraser says she won't let Germany stop her from standing up for Palestine.
With rich Amazon forests and fewer than a million people, Suriname is one of the few countries that absorbs more carbon than it produces. But the former Dutch colony is now being forced to implement destructive austerity by global financial interests.
Dissatisfaction at established green parties and environmental NGOs has fed the rise of more confrontational forms of activism. The task can’t just be to raise awareness but to mobilize millions of people in fighting for their own interests.
Today no one on either side of the political spectrum would present themselves as an enemy of choice. The historian and author of The Age of Choice, Sophia Rosenfeld, spoke to Jacobin about the complex legacy of an idea that helped forge the modern world.
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg reveal a revolutionary who was deeply committed and defiantly humane.
Sex workers and their would-be saviors.
With Ashley Madison, capitalism has reached a new low: the commodified Ideal Woman.
Seven tidbits from Bernie Sanders’s memoir, Outsider in the White House.
The revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg continues to inform and inspire anticapitalist movements today.
The Kurdish struggle has been undermined by world-power clashes over the future of Syria.
Megyn Kelly's handful of admirable stances at Fox don't make up for years of peddling reactionary, racist nonsense.
Why feminists are calling for a national women's strike during Donald Trump's inauguration.
Today marks 40 years since Italy legalized abortion. But the promises of the law remain unfulfilled.
Abortion isn’t a “cultural” issue. The production of children, and who will pay for it, is a key economic battlefront.
Jo Freeman’s “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” brilliantly details how movement organizations founded on “structurelessness” and “leaderlessness” can give rise to authoritarianism and invisible hierarchies. We reprint her classic essay here in full.
On October 24, 1975 over 90 percent of Icelandic women refused to work. The aim: to show how much society depended on women’s labor, from farms and factories to the home.