The Numbers Racket
Rick Scott and Obama's figures may sound impressive, but “job creation” does not equal recovery.
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Labor Must Take on Capital
Unions must expand beyond narrow bargaining to challenge those who hold wealth and power at the highest levels.
Organizing Labor’s Left Pole
2016 has seen both the soaring heights of labor's class-struggle left pole and the abject lows of its business-unionism right.
How to Build a Mass Movement
To build a mass movement against Trump, we have to engage newcomers productively.
Why We Confronted Joe Biden on Deportations
Last night, immigrant rights activists asked Joe Biden to repudiate Obama’s immigration record. Biden said no and then told them to “vote for Trump.” Carlos Rojas, one of the activists, talks to Jacobin about why he spoke out — and why we need an immediate moratorium on deportations.
Trump Attacks Socialism Because He Knows Americans Want It
The current freak-out by Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, and other right-wingers about democratic socialism is quite rational. In socialism, they see a formidable foe.
Most Politicians Don’t Care About Workers. But Unions Can Make Them.
New research finds that strong unions are pretty effective at making politicians pay attention to the interests of ordinary people. In order to pursue a real pro-worker agenda in government, we need an emboldened labor movement.
The Third Way Is Still Alive
Could Corbynism come to Australia? Don’t count on it — neoliberalism runs deep in the country's Labor Party.
How Tony Mazzocchi Built Worker Militancy in the Suburbs
Labor leader Tony Mazzocchi believed unions could inspire their members to engage in a broader political movement of working people. His Local 149 did just that in the 1950s — and in a suburban environment where no one thought it possible.
Schumer Democrats Can’t Stop Trump. Mamdani Democrats Might.
A week after Zohran Mamdani’s inspiring win, the Democratic Party’s centrist leadership proved its worthlessness in the Senate. The moderate party establishment is no match for Trumpism. It’s time to give Mamdani’s democratic socialism a chance.
The Scale of the Problem
We may be witnessing the first stirrings of a climate movement that’s big enough to tackle the coming disaster — and radical enough to name the system responsible for it.
Long Live the Women’s Committee
A dispatch from an embattled worker-run factory in Buenos Aires, where a militant women’s committee has linked the fight in the factory to the broader feminist struggle beyond its doors.
Conditions in US Meatpacking Plants Today Aren’t Much Better Than They Were in The Jungle
Decades after Upton Sinclair exposed the horrors of meatpacking, radical labor organizing transformed the industry into a bastion of worker power. Now, a century later, after decades of union-busting and the coronavirus decimating workers throughout the industry, the meatpacking industry is back to The Jungle.
UBI, the Unknown Ideal
A new book on universal basic income argues for us to "give people money." Sounds good. But a lot of old questions about how to do it are still left unanswered.
All in the Family
The Market Basket strike had conservative aims. But leftists can learn from the solidarity it inspired.
Two MPs Reflect on Sixty Years of Canada’s New Democratic Party
As Canada’s NDP marks its sixtieth anniversary, we talk to two of the party’s MPs about its past, present, and future prospects.
Behind the Iran Protests
An on-the-ground report from the protests in Iran, where citizens are torn between anger at their leaders and fears of becoming the next Syria.
Billionaires Want to Reopen Schools Amid a Pandemic. They Might Unleash a Teacher Strike Wave.
Business interests are eager to reopen schools so they can get the economy running again and turn a profit. But teachers across the country are insisting that schools should only be reopened when it can be done safely — and they might just go on strike to fight back against the billionaires.
Jair Bolsonaro’s Hard-Right Populism Is Horrifying. But He Didn’t Come From Nowhere.
Rise of the Bolsonaros, a new documentary chronicling Jair Bolsonaro’s ascent, makes for compelling viewing. But it ignores the fact that Brazil’s crises are rooted in its flawed developmental model, not just the rise of a family of reactionary zealots.
Zohran Mamdani vs. New York Landlords
The real estate industry is pouring millions into Andrew Cuomo’s mayoral campaign in an effort to stop the robust pro-tenant candidacy of Zohran Mamdani.