Capitalism may not be producing “bullshit jobs” in the way David Graeber argued. But our working lives are indeed full of bullshit: marked by the petty despotism of the boss and directed to ends no one would freely choose to pursue.
Phillip Agnew talks to us about the Movement for Black Lives, the erasure of Bernie Sanders’s diverse support base, and the need for a North Star beyond capitalism.
To develop the desperately needed vaccine for COVID-19, we need to test that vaccine on human subjects. Socialists have to fight to make sure for-profit medical companies don’t abuse those subjects.
Unlike in previous eras, elite reproduction today is now hidden under the veil of meritocracy — creating a need among the rich to present themselves as if they were just like us.
The US cancer mortality rate is finally falling. But the gap in outcomes between the rich and the poor is actually widening — another reason why we need Medicare for All.
Between President Trump heaping praise on Zohran Mamdani and the GOP-led Congress denouncing socialism, yesterday revealed a capitalist opposition throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.
The fact that Joe Biden felt the need to call for nationwide rent-increase caps this past week is a refreshing turn toward pro-tenant policy at a time when millions of renters are all but ignored by both parties.
The US-Israeli war on Iran has strengthened the power of a section of Iran’s elite that earns money in dollars from the sale of oil and petrochemicals. This has unified the state and its elite around an anti-imperialist project but at the cost of permanent austerity.
The Canadian right has committed to its own brand of angry identity politics, pitting “regular” folks against the depredations of elites. The Left has to fight back with a class politics opposing economic exploitation — not its own version of tribalism.
You can't understand the chaos of Brexit without understanding the fundamentals of the European Union.
Revitalizing the labor movement will never happen with one weird trick — it will require both top-down and bottom-up strategies in unions.
The crisis of capitalism is currently opening wide. But it didn’t come out of nowhere.
Like his narrator in The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura has been made to matter less than he should.
Catapulted to media attention by its stunts, Extinction Rebellion has wasted its platform on a message of individualized guilt and obedience to the powerful. To avert climate disaster, we need economic transformation, not pointless moralism.
Since leaving the White House, Barack Obama has been hard at work in Hollywood with his production company, Higher Ground, which signed a “high eight-figure deal” with Netflix.
Brexit has suddenly made Scottish independence and a united Ireland possible. What does it mean for the Left?
With 95% backing for strike action, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is taking on Canada Post over wages, pensions, and a fight for the future of public services.
A new report shows Americans are working longer hours — even as millions can’t find jobs at all.
The Left has a checkered history when it comes to Palestine.