In a wide-ranging interview, the political economist Helen Thompson discusses how the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has transformed the region. With an incoming Trump administration, the stage is now set for hawks to confront an isolated Iran.
The ongoing attacks against Kurds in Turkey are part of a last-ditch effort by Erdoğan to hold onto power.
Foreign intervention has only worsened the situation in Syria.
In Germany, even radical left-wingers who long distrusted state power are today calling for more tanks and jets for Ukraine. Lacking alternative solutions to the conflict, parts of the Left increasingly fall in behind the government’s call to rearm.
Bashar al-Assad has left the building. It took fourteen years of bloody conflict.
Today's Turkish elections are occurring in a political environment transformed by the Gezi Uprising.
The elections in Turkey today will be a crucial test of the Left's ability to curtail Erdoğan's authoritarian rule.
Behind the humanitarian disaster of the Syrian civil war is a political crisis the Left urgently needs to understand.
In Germany, that supposed bastion of liberal democracy, the state treats standing up for Kurdish rights as tantamount to terrorism — and hits activists with house searches, imprisonment, and even deportation.
Turkey is headed for snap elections — and Erdoğan's continued quest for dominance is again on the line.
Erdoğan might have triumphed in the Turkish elections, but there are still glimmers of hope amid the despotism and repression.
Abdullah Öcalan, a founder of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, made a surprise call in February for the PKK to lay down its arms. Whether there will be a just peace now depends on the willingness of Turkey’s political parties to support the new settlement.
Turkish president Erdoğan is wielding the state to attack anyone who won't capitulate to his authoritarian rule.
David Harvey on a new book that looks at Marx's Capital through the lens of political theory and Dante's Inferno.
Whatever happens tomorrow, the Left is in a better position than ever to challenge Erdoğan's fragmented regime.
Tomorrow's referendum in Turkey is about one thing: Erdoğan's brazen bid for dictatorial power.
Three years after his death, British trade union leader Bob Crow continues to provide an example of militant working-class leadership.
Amid escalating campus violence and a backdrop of student arrests, an NYC-based Armenian coalition is uniting Armenian, Palestinian, and Kurdish diaspora communities to organize for Palestinian liberation.
Marxist philosopher Étienne Balibar sits down with Jacobin to discuss freedom and democracy — and why socialists need to reclaim those words from the Right.
The war in Gaza has split Kurdish opinion, marked by often strong hostility to Islamism as well as Zionism. But Kurds’ responses also draw on their experience of statelessness — and point toward a democratic order not based on rival nation-states.