Left populism is the new idiom of radical politics worldwide. It emerged as the answer to the problem of a weak and disorganized working class — but despite its electoral successes, that class remains weak and disorganized.
Thomas Mulcair’s ouster provides an opening for left activists inside and outside Canada’s New Democratic Party.
Bernadette Devlin on her early activism and why the Good Friday Agreement brought some peace, but little justice.
The centrist nadir in a nutshell: “Am I really so out of touch? No. It’s the voters who are wrong.”
Who are the British volunteers fighting with the Kurdish YPG in Rojava?
The border controversy is just the latest episode in the epic of Britain’s political establishment and their willful ignorance of Ireland.
Three years after his death, British trade union leader Bob Crow continues to provide an example of militant working-class leadership.
If the Labour Party has a future, MP Jon Trickett argues in Jacobin, it needs to unite divided workers and win postindustrial regions with a clear economic program and the rhetoric of class, not culture, war.
Boris Johnson has been backed into a corner. After promising to deliver Brexit, he’s instead been forced to ask the EU for yet another delay. Now he’s hurtling toward an election in which he will have to face the voters empty-handed. Meanwhile, Labour’s strategy is clear: refuse to fight the Brexit culture war and focus on the party’s radical vision for the future.
Erika Uyterhoeven is a democratic socialist, a former Bernie Sanders staffer, and the Democratic nominee for a Massachusetts state representative seat. In an interview with Jacobin, Uyterhoeven talks about how the Sanders campaigns impacted her, the broad left coalition that won her the nomination, and why it’s important to openly embrace being a socialist.
Boris Johnson’s promise to “get Brexit done” allowed him to frame his whole agenda as a matter of implementing the popular will. Die-hard calls to rejoin the European Union are hopelessly out of touch — and risk dividing Labour over a futile culture war.
It's not clear that a Leave vote would make our tasks on the Left any easier.
MP Jon Trickett on studying under Ralph Miliband and how Labour can become a million-member party.
We shouldn’t have illusions about transforming the EU from below. But a Leave vote would only strengthen the Right.
Could Corbynism come to Australia? Don’t count on it — neoliberalism runs deep in the country's Labor Party.
Mark Fisher died two years ago this month. He helped us see the collective depression we have all lived in for decades. If only he could have seen that depression finally start to lift.
The corruption of British politics by corporate “dark money” is part of a global phenomenon. But we can’t make sense of that trend without recognizing that capitalist oligarchies have always sought to undermine genuine democracy.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon narrowly failed to make the runoff in France’s presidential election. But there are signs that the French left can come back stronger than ever.
More low-income voters backed the Tories than the Labour Party in the 2019 election for the first time ever. Labour’s decision to side with the establishment rather than the voters over Brexit pushed them into the Tories’ arms.
One year after leaving the White House, Obama’s centrist, technocratic politics are clearer than ever.