Ignoring Elites
How not to think about politics in the age of Trump.
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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.
For Socialist Psychologist Alfred Adler, Collective Feeling Was the Cure
Alfred Adler was ahead of his time in centering what he called “social interest” in his psychological theories. His approach sought to combat shame and alienation and encourage concern for the common good — a psychological application of his socialist values.
All Dad’s Armies
British politics have become a strange form of World War II cosplay, where the European Union are the Nazis, 1945 is a betrayal, and Boris Johnson is the newWinston Churchill.
In Britain, the Left Is Standing With Jeremy Corbyn
In Thursday’s general election, Jeremy Corbyn is defending his seat from a private health care boss backed by Keir Starmer’s Labour Party. The campaign is a fight over the Left’s most basic values — and has stirred an extraordinary activist turnout for Corbyn.
An Organizing Seat in City Hall
Meet the socialist city council candidate trying to make Minneapolis more than just a liberal bastion.
Eugene D. Genovese (1930–2012)
Gene in his last years is better categorized as a “man of the Right” rather than as a conservative.
The Failed Strategy
We must learn the dangers of political shortcut and focus on building radical movements outside of government.
How France’s Wealthy Elites Keep Their Grip on Power
A new poll found that 80% of French people believe the class struggle is a reality. While workers are seeing their pensions cut back, the superrich are wealthier than ever — and it’s because of their success in capturing the Republic’s institutions.
How Kshama Sawant Defeated Amazon
Amazon went all out to defeat Seattle’s socialist city council member Kshama Sawant in this year’s election — but Sawant emerged victorious. In an interview with Jacobin, she reflects on why it’s so important to pick fights with capitalists, and what every socialist running for office should know.
We Are American Jewish Educators, and We Demand a Cease-Fire
Children are being killed by the thousands in Gaza. Both our role as educators and the Jewish values we were raised with demand that we support a cease-fire.
From Slavery Abolition to Public Education, German Radicals Made American History
The United States has forgotten the radical German American immigrant socialists who spilled blood for antislavery and other liberatory causes.
Eugene V. Debs: We Should Scorn the Rich and Powerful, Even in Death
Every time a member of the ruling class passes away, we’re expected to bow our heads in reverence and sing their praises. Writing in 1901, Eugene Debs offered a different approach: tell the unvarnished truth about the tyranny of the rich and powerful.
How the Military-Industrial Complex Gets Its Power and Harms Workers, in 6 Graphs
The military-industrial complex generates death and destruction abroad while also harming workers at home: it funds politicians and think tanks, siphons off money from pro-worker programs, and turns the public coffers into a slush fund for war profiteering.
Flight Attendants’ Leader Sara Nelson: “You Have to Look for the Next Fight”
This week, AFA-CWA president Sara Nelson traveled to Bessemer, Alabama, where Amazon workers are now voting on unionization. We spoke to Nelson about the union drive, Amazon’s tone-deafness, and how her members are doing one year into the pandemic.
King Coal Is a Powerful Requiem for an Appalachian Myth
Appalachians built their identities around an industry that’s nearly dead. Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s new documentary film King Coal asks: What happens when the king dies and there’s no heir apparent?
In Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You, Love Leaps Over All Obstacles
In Beautiful World, Where Are You, the biggest obstacles aren’t material. They’re the barriers to connection and love the protagonists put in their own way.
The Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 56 Years Later
The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley was a watershed moment in 1960s student organizing. Through unprecedented mobilization, rejecting the expansion of McCarthyist-inspired rules to strangle political activities on campus, and a refusal to allow the administration's efforts to split the movement, students won their basic rights to free speech on campus.
We Knocked on a Million Doors for 45,000 Votes
I helped organize Bernie Sanders’s canvassing efforts in Iowa, and I learned that we can knock on as many doors as we want, but to make lasting change, we need to think beyond election day.
We Need Solidarity, Not White Guilt, to Fight Racism
To win substantive change, we don’t have to disavow personal education or introspection. But we do have to set our sights much higher — on dismantling the institutions that entrench racial inequality and violence.