She Came to Riot
The memory of riot grrrl deepens the divide between cultural and material feminism, hobbling critiques of inequality by mistaking self-improvement for revolution.
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Betting on Militancy
The Fight for 15 campaign has the potential to revitalize and transform the labor movement.
Pulling the Plug on Working Families
The Left must develop fully independent organizations outside of establishment channels.
The Two Mandelas
While Mandela was certainly a “great historical figure,” too many tributes have been unable to move beyond hagiography.
Power to Which People?
Progressives should be less concerned about how people are protesting and more concerned about who is mobilizing and what they’re fighting for.
NYSUT’s Teachable Moment
New York State United Teachers members have an opportunity to create a broad educational justice movement — if they can move their union away from politics as usual.
In Defense of the Ferguson Riots
The protesters in Ferguson aren’t irrational or apolitical. They are calling attention to their basic, unmet needs.
Scotland’s Democratic Horizons
Scottish independence achieved mass support because it gave ordinary people the sense that they can control their own destiny.
The Right to Be Playful
This Labor Day, let’s celebrate our human right to be joyous and playful.
Erdoğan’s Victory by Violence
The ruling AKP won yesterday's Turkish election through sheer violence and repression.
Education, Inc.
A Jacobin investigation finds widespread corruption at one of the nation’s largest charter school networks.
Ghosts of the Paris Commune
The methods and politics of the Paris Commune served as inspiration for Easter Rising leaders like James Connolly.
No More Eric Garners
To end police violence, we must end policing as we know it.
The Path to Dissent
Mike Davis on the Trump phenomenon and why young people are so open to socialism.
Battling Cartel and State
The movement in Mexico is fighting for an alternative to both drug cartels and neoliberalism.
Germany’s New Far Right
In Germany, a "modernized" far right is marrying neoliberalism and racism. What will be the Left's response?
Hollywood at War
An unrepentant whitewash of murder and occupation, American Sniper shouldn’t be up for any Oscars tonight.
An Open Letter to DeRay Mckesson
Teach For America undermines the fight for racial justice.
The Primary Contradiction
China’s leftist revival is overstated. The country’s new “Maoists" cede too much ground to nationalism and the market.
The Wrong Kind of Secularism
The French secular ideal of laïcité is not a misused noble idea — it is deeply flawed at its roots.