The Radical Legacy of the “Poorest President in the World”
What we can learn from the life of Uruguay’s former guerrilla and leftist president Pepe Mujica.
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Danes First, Welfare Last
Denmark’s Social Democrats argue that tougher migration controls are needed to defend the welfare state. But excluding immigrants is only the first step in a wider assault on the poorest Danes.
The Fund for Needy Millionaires
Think government benefits all go to the poor? Think again — here are five ways Washington shovels billions in public money to the superrich.
A Progressive or a Radical?
Last night, Bernie Sanders showed the promise — and limits — of his economic populism.
Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay
Debt-stricken countries like Greece have continued repaying their creditors even though it's hammering workers' living standards. They should stick it to the banks and default instead.
India Walton: Byron Brown Is a “Sore Loser” Whose Pro-Corporate Policies Have Failed Buffalo
Buffalo mayor Byron Brown lost the Democratic Party primary against socialist India Walton. Now he’s elbowed his way back on the ballot for the general election. In an interview with Jacobin, Walton argues that Brown’s defense of the status quo will lose to her vision of democratic socialism.
We Can’t Have a Fair Society Under Capitalism
Random chance governs far more of our lives than most of us are comfortable admitting. Fully appreciating the influence of luck on life chances should lead us to rethink our economic and political institutions from the bottom up.
Walter Benjamin’s Final Prophecy
Walter Benjamin grew up in a secular family, but later combined Jewish messianism with Marxism in order to reignite past hopes in present struggles.
Arizona Prepares to Strike
Educators in Arizona are walking out today to demand better pay and full school funding. It will likely be the largest and most dramatic education strike yet.
The Five Star Movement Is Imploding
The Five Star Movement emerged promising to liberate Italians from a corrupt political establishment. But its hollow claim to stand outside the left-right divide has made it into a mere stooge for Matteo Salvini.
The Queen’s Gambit Is a Merciless Takedown of Hollywood Anti-Communism
Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit shows a Cold War world far from the usual Hollywood tropes of freedom-loving Americans confronting evil Russian totalitarians. The villains in this piece aren’t our heroine’s Soviet chess rivals, but the middle-class tyrants of US suburbia.
The American Ruling Class Has Never Let Us Build Back Better
The nation’s original failure to “build back better” was Reconstruction, the attempt to radically remake society in the wake of the Civil War. Then as now, the most powerful people in the country went out of their way to maintain the status quo.
Éric Zemmour Is Another Right-Wing Fake Populist Created by Corporate Media
Far-right pundit Éric Zemmour says he is running for the French presidency in order to stand up to elites. Yet far from a grassroots endeavor, his campaign has been driven by some of France’s biggest corporate media.
Get a Free Ebook Version of The ABCs of Capitalism
Political organizing is hard — political education shouldn’t have to be. We're now offering our ABCs of Capitalism series as free ebooks.
How Decades of Neoliberalism Led to the Era of Right-Wing Populism
Right-wing neoliberalism’s assault on the very idea of society laid the groundwork for today’s right-wing nationalist backlash. But the Left’s hands aren’t entirely clean either.
The US Tax Code Should Not Allow Billionaires to Exist
The recent ProPublica exposé about billionaires’ almost-nonexistent tax bill was just the latest to reveal how little the ultrarich pay in taxes. We need to attack the wealth and power of the rich — and that means massively increasing taxes on them.
Introducing The ABCs of Capitalism
Political organizing is hard — political education shouldn’t have to be. Introducing our ABCs of Capitalism series.
Spotify Deserves the Hate. But Don’t Forget the Major Labels.
Spotify’s excesses — ghost artists, boring mood playlists, and AI — don’t indicate some evil inherent to streaming. They stem from the major labels’ effective oligarchy over the music industry.
Ignoring Elites
How not to think about politics in the age of Trump.
When Fascism Was American
Before Donald Trump, there was Father Charles Coughlin, who popularized fascism for Americans in the 1930s.