Left Behind by Good Friday
Bernadette Devlin on her early activism and why the Good Friday Agreement brought some peace, but little justice.
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Learning to Fight
Teachers everywhere are fighting against austerity.
Bob Crow in Rojava
Who are the British volunteers fighting with the Kurdish YPG in Rojava?
Loved by the Workers, Feared by the Bosses
Three years after his death, British trade union leader Bob Crow continues to provide an example of militant working-class leadership.
Sabotaging Apartheid
Ronnie Kasrils, head of intelligence during South Africa’s struggle against apartheid, on his revolutionary life and the prospects for the country’s left.
Germany’s Groundhog Day
Die Linke MP Fabio de Masi on Germany’s coalition negotiations, the revolt in the SPD, and what it all means for the country’s left.
The Keynesian Counterrevolution
What is it about capitalism that makes Keynesianism a horizon even would-be revolutionaries have trouble seeing past?
The World Within a World
As the UK Labour Party aims to organize its forgotten heartlands, it can learn from a rich history of socialist culture in working-class communities.
What’s Left in Puerto Rico?
Progressive forces in Puerto Rico must link social justice to national determination if they want to lead the island out of precarity.
Can There Be a Left Populism?
The European debate on populism brings the Left’s fundamental identity into question.
Bernie Sanders: Bold Politics Is Good Politics
Bernie Sanders on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory, Jeremy Corbyn's success, and why his policy agenda is winning in states across the country.
Democrats and Their Promises
Of course Democratic candidates will claim to support progressive policies. Don't assume they're telling the truth.
What Revolutionary Socialism Means to Me
The revolutionary socialist vision is a vital one. Today’s rising socialist movement shouldn’t discard it.
The Transatlantic Health-Care Struggle
American advocates of Medicare for All should show our solidarity with Britain’s working class as it fights to save its National Health Service from privatization at the hands of Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, and the predatory American health-care industry — the same industry that’s fighting tooth and nail against Medicare for All here at home.
“Patriotism” Is a Dead End for the Left
Labour’s new leader, Keir Starmer, wants the Left to embrace patriotism. But rather than bowing to the totems of faith and flag, Labour should be drawing on the best of its own traditions — those of dissent, mutual aid, and a radical solidarity that refuses to be content with inequality or injustice.
Germany’s Left Has New Leadership but Not a Strategy
After years of stagnant poll numbers and declining electoral results, Germany's Die Linke party hopes that its new leadership team will return it to the promise of the 2000s. But as its social base in the former East fragments, the left-wing party doesn't just need a different marketing strategy — it needs to rebuild its roots in working-class life.
Stop Painting Northern England as a Land of Reactionary Proles
Labour’s dismal polling for today’s Hartlepool by-election show its awkward, flag-waving nationalism isn’t convincing anyone. Too bad Keir Starmer won’t stop playing on the Right’s terrain and start offering working-class voters real economic populism.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon Defied the Smears — and Provided Hope for France’s Left
After years of media attempts to cast him as “divisive” and “soft on Islamism,” Jean-Luc Mélenchon took a historic high vote in France’s election. Leftist MP Danièle Obono told Jacobin how his campaign defied the smears — and saved the Left from collapse.
Britain’s Reckoning With Its Imperial Legacy Is Long Overdue
Conservatives like to paint a sanitized picture of British imperialism, but the empire was built on murderous exploitation. Modern Britain is finally coming to terms with the crimes on which its global power rested.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon Is Popular Because He Confronts the Powerful
For years, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has faced endless accusations of “divisiveness” and “extremism.” Today, his left-wing movement is more popular than ever — and it’s because it didn’t shy away from taking on French elites.