CounterPunch and the War on Transgender People
Regarding anti-trans* rhetoric as legitimate erases the experiences of an entire class of people.
Search Result(s) for: “feminism”
Bro Bash
There’s nothing feminist about leaving numbers to the bros.
Rosa Lives
The revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg continues to inform and inspire anticapitalist movements today.
Canada’s Third Way
Like other social democratic parties around the world, Canada’s New Democratic Party has fully embraced its shift to the right.
What Does Obama Think They Were Doing at Stonewall?
Obama has a peculiar view of class struggle and progress.
The Wrong Kind of UBI
Without the right design, a universal basic income would do little to advance radical change.
The Left and the State
When leftists set themselves up as defenders of government against libertarian hostility to the state, they unwittingly accept the Right’s framing of the debate.
A Moment for Movements
Frances Fox Piven on the failure of welfare reform and the promise of new movements.
California English
There’s a reason conservative critics want to limit the study of literature to aesthetic experience: any further analysis might become a gateway to a political awareness they fear.
Atari Democrats
As organized labor lost strength, the Democratic Party turned to professional-class voters to shore up its base.
Hegel Meets Reagan
Rick Perlstein is a master chronicler of American political absurdity. But explaining Reagan and the Right requires more than a catalog of the absurd.
Iceland’s Revolution
After its financial crisis, Iceland put bankers in jail. But it didn't rein in capital.
With Strings Attached
Latin America’s conditional cash transfer programs don’t offer a real answer to poverty and inequity.
The 2014 Jacobin Mixtape
The last year in Jacobin, lovingly compiled.
The Left Can Win
Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias on radical politics and what it takes to build mass movements.
Can We Criticize Foucault?
Late in life, Michel Foucault developed a curious sympathy for neoliberalism.
The Limits of Republicanism
The response to Charlie Hebdo shows French republicanism’s blindness to structural racism.
Austria’s New Right
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party has deployed populist rhetoric to swell its base. Now the party is eyeing state power.
Greece: Phase One
Syriza is the Left's best chance at success in a generation. But for socialists, the hard part starts after election day.