Protesters’ Demands in Response to Police Brutality Have Come a Long Way Since the 1992 LA Rebellion
While it’s far too soon to declare victory, let’s take stock of how far political demands have come since the 1992 LA Rebellion.
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Seattle’s New Mayor on Her “Sewer Socialist Mentality”
Ahead of her swearing in today, Seattle mayor Katie Wilson talks to Jacobin about the everyday pressures squeezing working-class people and why she’s a democratic socialist.
Surveillance Corporations Are More Than Happy to Ride the Wave of Police Reform
Widely publicized cases of police brutality have led to an incredible uprising across the United States and the world demanding an end to police violence. But those cases can also mean big business for companies selling technology based on the empty promise of providing greater police accountability and improving public safety.
Democrats Can’t Blame the Left for Their Lackluster Election Results
The Democratic leadership went into this election with a strategy: stick to the center, avoid the Left, and promise bipartisanship. When the results proved disastrous, guess who they decided to blame: the Left.
Zohran Mamdani and the Contradiction of Democratic Socialism
What happens when a DSA politician takes charge of the largest city in the United States? Zohran Mamdani’s early record is filled with successes, but also evidence of the contradictions between socialist politics and governing the capitalist state.
How the Culture Wars Are Undermining Public Education
The Right has deployed attacks on LGBTQ rights, the teaching of black history, and other topics to politicize and undermine public schools. The Left has an opportunity to mobilize a broad coalition to defend public education in response to this assault.
In New York, There’s Money for Cops, But Not for Schools
Jabari Brisport is a public school teacher and Democratic Socialists of America activist who cut his political teeth campaigning for same-sex marriage a decade ago. Now he’s running as a socialist to represent Brooklyn in the state senate, and he's mounting a full-throated challenge to status-quo politics in New York.
How the Left Beat Trump in Michigan
According to centrists, the “blue wave” didn’t materialize because of the Left. That’s nonsense — and in at least one crucial swing state, Joe Biden rode to victory because of the organizing of progressives and leftists.
Pro-Choice Protesters Are Being Targeted With Red Scare Laws
Protesters are peacefully demonstrating outside the homes of Supreme Court justices who are about to overturn Roe v. Wade — and conservatives are demanding the government arrest them.
Don’t Mourn “Democracy Promotion”
The National Endowment for Democracy is a vehicle for Putin-style foreign meddling. Yet some liberals are now bemoaning Trump’s assault on the organization.
AMLO Can’t Fight Poverty Through Austerity
AMLO’s center-left presidency in Mexico has promised to stamp out corruption and tackle inequality. But instead of paying for his badly needed direct cash transfer program through taxing the rich, he's making cuts to the country's cultural programs.
A Tiny Cut in the Military Budget That Probably Won’t Happen Is Causing Panic in Washington
The bipartisan establishment is having a freak-out over the prospect of a modest cut to the defense budget. It’s not clear it will actually happen — but even if it did, the gargantuan US military budget would still be wasteful and counterproductive.
When Joe Biden Takes the White House, What’s Next for the Left?
The American left has been transformed over the past four years under President Donald Trump. But the Left will have to organize and fight just as hard under President Joe Biden.
How Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Crafted a Winning Message
We spoke to Zohran Mamdani’s campaign communications director, Andrew Epstein, about how a disciplined and creative message, mass canvassing, viral videos, and an end run around mainstream media helped the campaign break through.
We Need Solidarity, Not White Guilt, to Fight Racism
To win substantive change, we don’t have to disavow personal education or introspection. But we do have to set our sights much higher — on dismantling the institutions that entrench racial inequality and violence.
Why You Should Support Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Against Israel
At its core, the movement calling to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel is about defunding apartheid and military occupation. It’s a movement that’s worth supporting.
Mayoral Hopeful Flo Cofer Envisions a Democratic Sacramento
With an activist background and a left-wing perspective, Sacramento mayoral candidate Flo Cofer bears the markers of an outsider candidate. But backed by big unions, sitting councilmembers, and the city paper, she’s giving the Sac elite a run for their money.
In Zohran Mamdani’s Win, Socialism Beat the Status Quo
There is a hunger for bold, transformative politics in the United States right now. Zohran Mamdani shows how the Left can run on a principled, disciplined message that speaks to voters’ lived concerns — and win.
Another Socialist Will Be Taking a Seat in the New York City Council
Socialist City Council candidate Kristin Richardson Jordan scored a remarkable upset victory in Harlem, with a campaign combining unabashed radicalism with a commitment to the unglamorous work of constituent services.
Class Dealignment Is the Defining Political Challenge of Our Time
The evidence is overwhelming: workers are abandoning the Democrats and center-left parties around the world. Class dealignment is radically changing politics, and the Left needs a program to win the working class.