Is a Trump Slump on the Way?
The American economy seems headed in the opposite direction of the “golden age” Donald Trump promised in his inaugural address.
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Rodrigo Duterte’s One-Man Revolution
Rodrigo Duterte's authoritarian vision is no way forward for the Philippines.
“Pro-Refugee” Corporations Are Bankrolling Anti-Immigrant Republicans
Major companies are trying to get good PR by joining a nonprofit that supposedly works to improve the livelihoods of refugees. But those same companies are bankrolling virulently anti-immigrant GOP politicians.
Conservatives Love Coal Miners — Until They Go on Strike
The Right has worked hard in recent years to portray itself as defenders of beleaguered coal miners. But over a thousand miners are currently on strike in Alabama and we haven’t heard a peep about it from conservative talking heads. Weird.
Michael Denning on Antonio Gramsci and Hegemony
The great labor historian Michael Denning reflects on what Antonio Gramsci’s work has to tell us today.
McDonald’s HQ Is a Perfect Symbol of America’s Class Divide
Housed within McDonald’s Chicago HQ are both white-collar workers upstairs, enjoying a relaxed work environment and decent compensation — and restaurant workers downstairs, making the company’s profits but facing unsafe work environments and low wages.
Oakland Teachers Are Striking Against Billionaire Privatizers
Oakland teachers are on strike today to defeat plans by the superrich to take over and dismantle their public schools.
An Aristocracy by Design
For Madison and the other Framers, the danger wasn’t the power of elites but that of the mob.
For a Democratic Society, Democratize Finance
The immense power financial institutions wield over most aspects of our lives makes a mockery of democracy. To build a truly democratic society, we need to democratize finance.
The Radical Roots of Free Speech
Conservatives like to claim that leftists are opponents of free speech. But that’s nonsense: it was radical labor organizers who founded the ACLU and who fought for civil liberties as a means to resist capitalists’ power.
The Wrestler Who Took on Nazi Germany
Seventy-five years after the Nazis murdered him, we celebrate the life of German anti-fascist athlete and communist resistance fighter Werner Seelenbinder.
Viktor Orbán is Using the Coronavirus Emergency to Crush Minorities
Just in the last week, the Hungarian government has banned gender reassignment, legislated jail terms for fake news, and put government stooges in control of theaters. Viktor Orbán’s administration has done all this in the name of the response to coronavirus — exploiting its emergency powers to silence dissent and demonize minorities.
The Merkel Effect
As German elections loom this Sunday, cracks may be starting to show in Merkel's radical centrist reign.
Humanity Needs Democratic Control of AI
The danger from artificial intelligence isn’t a Terminator-style robot uprising but tech capitalists using the technology to push their own interests. Seizing control from them is the best way to ensure algorithmic technology serves the social good.
The War on Inflation Is a Class War
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell recently warned that the United States was at risk of stagflation, a combination of high inflation and economic slowdown. When this happened in the 1970s, capitalists used the crisis to attack organized labor.
Antonio Labriola Knew That Marxism Was a Philosophy of Action
Antonio Labriola played a major role in the development of Italian Marxism and inspired the thinking of Antonio Gramsci. Labriola knew that capitalism wouldn’t collapse of its own accord: only a socialist culture of activism could bring about a new society.
The Real Dad’s Army
Britain's wartime Home Guard is immortalized in popular culture — but the socialists who shaped it are forgotten.
Michael Bloomberg Isn’t a Smug Technocratic Centrist. He’s Something Far Worse
An admirer of dictators, a lowbrow misogynist, an unfiltered bigot — Michael Bloomberg is the only Democratic contender who might actually be worse than Trump.