The Popular Front Didn’t Work
The Communist Party’s 1930s popular front strategy weakened the labor movement and empowered the Democratic Party.
Search Result(s) for: “Japan”
The Long Road to Crisis
The dismantling of autoworker gains was a class project, not the inevitable result of globalization.
Jobs For All
In an age of precarity, a left-wing demand for full employment could be massively popular. But liberalism can't deliver it.
Vengeance Is Mine
Chaos reigns . . . fascist stooge finds his balcony . . . the resistible rise of Donald Trump . . . bomb crater America finds its Dauphin . . . Hillary Clinton: 10.0 Richter scale failure. . . . the pinko revolt begins. . . . digging ourselves out of the collapsed gold mine. . . .
When the South Held the Keys
The slaveholding class defeated in the Civil War were no ragtag band of sectionalists — they were the masters of the US state.
The Weimar Analogy
Comparing Trump's America to fascist Germany only fuels elites' antidemocratic fantasies.
The Ghost of Japanese Internment
Trump's calls for a Muslim registry have reignited memories of the World War II–era incarceration of Japanese Americans.
The Postal Banking Solution
The post office can offer financial services that private banks won’t. In fact, it's done it before.
The Glory Days Are Over
Trump’s victory signals a deep crisis of neoliberalism.
Serving the Leviathan
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s life and death highlight what’s at stake in Iran today.
The Glory Days Are Over
Trump’s victory signals a deep crisis of neoliberalism.
Free Tibet
Yes, Richard Gere is annoying. No, there isn't a credible left defense of continued Chinese rule in Tibet.
Assessing Togliatti
Palmiro Togliatti helped build the Italian Communist Party into the envy of the European left. But just how tangible was his Italian road to socialism?
Rooting for the Monsters
The monsters of Kong: Skull Island are as brilliantly rendered as its politics are muddled and queasy.
Breitbart for the Left
We need left-wing media outlets to build socialism. And the late German communist Willi Munzenberg shows us how it can be done.
Worked to Death
The American pension crisis helps corporations maintain a precarious, easily exploitable workforce.
Is Socialism Eurocentric?
Both capitalist exploitation and workers' resistance look fundamentally similar all over the world. Within the West and outside of it, socialism speaks to those experiences.
Autoworkers Deserve Better Than the UAW
The closing of the Lordstown plant and the recent Chattanooga defeat are the latest crushing losses for US autoworkers. What's worse, the UAW has proven completely incapable of fighting back.
Ralph Miliband’s Masterpiece at 50
Fifty years after it was published, Ralph Miliband's The State in Capitalist Society remains indispensable for any socialist movement with ambitions of power.
The European Choice
Yanis Varoufakis on how to build a democratic Europe in a post-Brexit landscape.