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Search Result(s) for: “working class”
Argentina’s New Order
Newly elected Argentine president Mauricio Macri has inaugurated harsh austerity measures and quashed dissent.
The Left Is Still Favored to Win Chile’s Presidency — But the Far Right Is Gaining Steam
With less than a month until Chile’s presidential election, hopes are high that leftist Gabriel Boric will win. But the collapse of the center right has unexpectedly allowed far-right nominee José Antonio Kast to surge.
Manning Marable Was a Pioneering Black Marxist. His Work Speaks Directly to Our Moment
Manning Marable was a leading radical thinker whose brilliant writings showed how the struggle for black liberation is bound up with the struggle against capitalism. Though he didn’t live to see the rise of Black Lives Matter, his work has a tremendous amount to offer the movement today.
Illinois Progressives Wanted To Tax the Rich. A Right-Wing Billionaire Helped Defeat Them.
A ballot measure to tax the rich failed on election night in Illinois. The person behind the “no” campaign: right-wing billionaire Ken Griffin, who funneled $50 million of his own money to kill the referendum.
Alan Greenspan Was a Faithful Servant of the Ruling Class
Longtime Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is often thought of as a free-market dogmatist. In reality, he was something far worse: an ideologically flexible but devoted servant of the powerful and a leading organizer of the war on US workers.
The “Hot Spring” Showed That Greeks Were Willing to Fight
Ten years ago, Greece was gripped by square occupations expressing mass opposition to EU austerity policies. The movement’s strength was its ability to rally Greeks from outside the organized left — yet it was ultimately defeated by its lack of a clear political alternative.
The World Would Be a Better Place Without the Rich
They coarsen our culture, erode our economic future, and diminish our democracy. The ultra-rich have no redeeming social value.
Communists Against the Mafia
The battle against the Sicilian Mafia wasn’t waged by cops and judges — it was waged by communists and labor militants.
A Marxist Guide to Understanding the Gulf States’ Political Economy
Western analysts often regard the Gulf as a strange anomaly among capitalist states. In fact, it has the same underlying dynamics as capitalist countries elsewhere, and it is powerfully shaping the politics of the Middle East.
Seven Lessons From the Sawant Campaign
Kshama Sawant has shown how electoral and movement politics can grow together.
Mark Levin Wants a New Red Scare
Mark Levin’s American Marxism is full of absurd inaccuracies about socialists. But accuracy isn’t his aim — Levin wants a sweep of “Marxists” from every layer of American society, a 21st-century rerun of McCarthyist authoritarianism to attack the Left.
The SPD Must Change Course or Die
The Social Democrats’ subordination to Angela Merkel has brought the German center-left to its knees. If the party wants to stop its voters from fleeing to the Greens and the far right, it needs to decide what side it’s on — and fight for it.
How a President Bernie Sanders Could Take on Wall Street
If Bernie Sanders wins the presidency, he’ll confront numerous obstacles to his agenda. To overcome those obstacles, we need a strategy to take on capital, especially Wall Street — and we need to start thinking about that strategy right now.
The Birth and Death of Single-Payer in the Democratic Party
In 1988, Jesse Jackson ran for president on a platform of uniting workers and pushing universalist policies like single-payer. His success terrified neoliberals in the Democratic Party.
Building the House of Breitbart
How Breitbart News rose on the darkest of money to hijack the conservative media — and how liberals helped them do it.
Martin Luther King Understood Solidarity
Jonathan Eig’s new Martin Luther King biography stirs exhilaration and visceral pain at the unexpected triumphs and vicious violence that King and the freedom movement endured. But it largely leaves out a key piece of King’s legacy: his commitment to labor.
Nobody Cares About the Discourse
It’s we who represent the many. And the Democrat intelligentsia who represents the powerful few.
Service Workers Aren’t Lazy — They Just Don’t Want to Risk Dying for Minimum Wage
Restaurant and bar owners whining about the difficulty of finding workers to toil for low wages and no benefits never seem to consider the possibility of raising those wages and benefits to try to attract such workers. But they’re also ignoring something more basic: the coronavirus pandemic wiped out an enormous swath of the restaurant workforce.
Between Party and Movements
Under MAS, Bolivia has seen massive decreases in poverty — but its social movements have grown weaker.