Canadians Don’t Want to Work at Tim Hortons
After decades of flagrant profiteering and attacking workers’ rights, Tim Hortons is now struggling to find people willing to work for them.
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The “Dark Academia” Subculture Offers a Fantasy Alternative to the Neoliberal University
At the center of the “dark academia” aesthetic is the fantasy of uninterrupted personal time and deep scholarly concentration in an elite campus setting. It couldn’t differ more from the reality of the hyper-capitalist modern university.
That Hopey, Changey Stuff
Obama’s presidency promised a new era in America, but the failure of his landmark legislation, the Affordable Care Act, set the stage for today’s disillusionment.
Desmond Tutu Never Sold Out the Liberation Struggle
The late anti-apartheid leader Archbishop Desmond Tutu was no neoliberal sellout. His legacy was always to advocate structural reforms in South Africa.
Kazakhstan’s Protests Are About Soaring Inequality
Kazakhstan is ablaze with protests driven by mass layoffs and the ever more intolerable cost of living. But in a country where almost all opposition has been silenced for years, the movement has to avoid being captured by rival oligarchic forces.
Sidney Poitier Was a Giant of the Screen
Sidney Poitier was more than an icon for his civil rights activism and for “paving the way” for black actors to follow. He was a master of his craft, and one of the greatest performers of all time.
The Bernie Left Is Taking on Machine Politics — and Each Other
Rhode Island has long been one of the most corrupt and machine-driven states in America. A new left movement is trying to change that — but they can’t agree on how.
Bling-Bling TV
As standards of living fall at the bottom and rise at the top, the only thing to do is watch TV about the trivial problems of the phenomenally rich.
Union Membership Is Still Declining
Unions raise wages and benefits and increase job security. So, the fact that unionization rates are still in decline, despite some recent bright spots in worker militancy, is very bad news.
Why Are US Workers Quitting Their Jobs in Droves?
A recent New York Times article investigates why quitting can spread within a workplace. By only asking white-collar workers, it misses much of the story.
Voting Rights Alone Will Not Save the Democrats
Expanding voting rights without expanding economic rights, as the Democrats are now attempting to do, won’t save American democracy and won’t save the party from collapse.
The Left Should See Our Movement as a Dynamic Ecology
Instead of finger-wagging at other leftists, we should think ecologically about our organizational structures and tactics.
New York Desperately Needs Universal Childcare
It’s time to end the nightmare of means-tested and debilitatingly expensive childcare in New York, socialist state senator Jabari Brisport writes in Jacobin. We need a universal childcare system, paid for by taxing the rich.
Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Whale
Why socialists should read Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.
Revulsion Against Billionaire Wealth Isn’t About “Envy.” It’s About Democracy.
Rotterdam has been forced to walk back the dismantling of a historic bridge to make way for Jeff Bezos’s superyacht. But the incident is a reminder that billionaires’ obscene wealth isn’t just about hoarding resources — it’s also about undermining democracy.
Raising Interest Rates Is About Screwing Workers
Today’s right-wingers hope to solve the inflation crisis like they did in the 1970s: through hiking interest rates, suppressing wages, and defeating already-hurting workers. That’s how economists wage class war.
In Philadelphia, Public Utility Ownership Isn’t Enough
We can’t win a carbon-neutral world without municipalizing energy utilities. But efforts by Philadelphia’s public gas utility to sabotage the city’s transition to clean energy show why municipalization is a beginning rather than an end in the fight for climate action in cities.
How France’s Mainstream Normalized the Far Right
Marine Le Pen is often credited with mainstreaming her far-right party. But it isn’t just that she’s moderated its positions — it’s that the radicalization of establishment conservatives has made her seem less extreme by comparison.
Today, Colombia Votes on a Shift to the Left
Colombia heads to the polls today to reject the far-right politics of Iván Duque and Álvaro Uribe and assert that the average Colombian is much more progressive than the traditional politicians who represent them.
Burn the Constitution Once Again
The Constitution didn’t stop Trump — it made his reign possible.