In the anti-communist climate of the Cold War, prominent liberal thinkers abandoned the Enlightenment’s ambitions for a society of real freedom and equality. The consequences have badly warped US politics to this day.
The political formulas that worked so well before for Narendra Modi proved less effective this year and he lost his single-party majority. Modi will remain in office, but his opponents will be more confident that they can challenge his Hindutva agenda.
Tenant “right to counsel” policies guarantee legal representation to tenants facing eviction. San Francisco’s policy, established by voters in 2018 and the first of its kind, is proving to be a humane and cost-effective way to address homelessness.
In 2019, a coalition of conservative forces responded to Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian turn and Venezuela’s ongoing economic crisis by launching a coup. Despite backing from the US and Venezuelan capital, the conspirators failed. A new book explains why.
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump fused nationalist appeals with selective attacks on Republican market ideology. As president, he provided more rhetoric than change.
In Cali, Colombia, where few qualify for bank loans, the predatory “gota a gota” lending industry generates massive profits for criminal organizations. Many of the working poor don’t even know who their lender is — until they miss a payment.
Hudson Valley socialist Sarahana Shrestha’s strong record of opposing real estate interests was always going to invite corporate opposition. But now she faces a multiplication factor: her stance on the war in Gaza has drawn the ire of the pro-Israel lobby.
The rise of the anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland has prompted a wave of troubled reactions in Germany. But authoritarianism isn’t just a far-right creation, and today, liberals are leading the charge against basic democratic freedoms.
Leftists and progressives throughout the country have much to learn from how democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani pulled off an unprecedented upset last night.
Zohran Mamdani’s victory last night was a straightforward triumph of people over money, the kind that capitalist elites try so hard to convince us is impossible.
Across the US, labor unions are starting to ally with tenant organizers around affordable housing and tenant protection campaigns. The efforts reflect a growing sense of shared interests — and shared corporate enemies.
War, and now a fragile ceasefire, is not bringing collapse in Iran but reinforcing and reorganizing its existing structures of power and inequality.
Opposed by management and politicians at every turn, Alabama Mercedes workers lost their union election yesterday. It’s a real setback — but the Mercedes workers say they won’t stop organizing until they get a union.
Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Church was a smash hit among evangelical Christians in the 1990s. It’s about how to build growing, vibrant churches. But it can also be read by socialists today to figure out how to grow our movement.
The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais last week dealt a major blow to the Voting Rights Act. The ruling underscores the many antidemocratic features of our political system and the need for a new, actually democratic constitution.
Greg Philo, who died last month, was a giant in the field of critical media studies. Philo and his colleagues exposed the conservative bias of TV news across a whole range of issues, from workers’ strikes to Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians.
From his late-life support for Donald Trump to playing a key role in destroying Gawker, the Netflix documentary series Real American keeps its distance from substantive questions about Hulk Hogan’s legacy.
France was once the heartland of revolution. Today, its left is battered, and its far right is rising. To understand why, we have to look at François Mitterrand’s socialist government’s turn from radical reform to neoliberal austerity in the 1980s.
Too much writing about Rosa Luxemburg nowadays focuses on her personal letters and relationships at the expense of her ideas. It’s good to humanize our heroes, but we risk belittling the significance of a revolutionary thinker whose understanding of socialism should be a touchstone for today’s left.
This summer could see 350,000 UPS workers walk off the job in the United States’ largest strike in decades. The Teamsters are getting ready. Here’s a look at how.