“The Courts Are Political”
Legal scholar Jedediah Purdy talks about Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court’s looming crisis of legitimacy, and how the Left can take advantage of that crisis.
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Grime for Corbyn
A wave of endorsements have brought Britain’s most vibrant music scene together with its most left-wing political leader.
Die Linke: Ten Years On
A decade after its formation, can Germany's Die Linke manage its contradictions and live up to its promise?
“More Tribal, More Sectarian, More Crony Capitalist Than Ever”
Bashar al-Assad has started confiscating the homes of Syrians who fled during the Civil War. For decades, his clan has purged the state of all but the most fanatical loyalists: now, it’s doing the same to society itself.
Meet the Viral Housing Activist Running for Australian Senate
Jordie van den Lamb, better known by social media handle "purplepingers," has warmed the hearts of renters worldwide with his uncompromisingly deadpan war on landlords. Now he’s taking the fight to their Australian headquarters, Parliament House.
In Russia, They Don’t Read Lenin Anymore
Soviet symbols are widespread in today’s Russia, including in propaganda for the war in Ukraine. But in the classroom, the Soviet legacy is reduced to a nationalist cult of World War II, while burying even the notional idea of a more equal society.
In Germany, Too, Pro-Palestine Protesters Get Deported
Berlin’s city government has moved to deport four pro-Palestine protesters. Even as centrist parties warn against the far-right threat, they introduce the powers beloved by authoritarian leaders.
The Return of Industrial Policy
Industrial policy is back in vogue in recent years — but without the working-class power to discipline capital, it’s just public money flowing to private profit.
“A Free Homeland and a Happy People”
Iraq’s Communist movement has survived nine decades filled with tragedy and fleeting success. Can it shape the new Iraq?
Hedge Fund Billionaire Ray Dalio Has Perfected the Art of Self-Aggrandizing Bullshit
A new biography of Ray Dalio, billionaire founder of the world's largest hedge fund, reveals him as an autocratic, cultish leader who conflates moneymaking with genius — a rather convenient definition for an ultrarich finance guy.
Nina Turner Is Coming Out Swinging — Again
This week, Nina Turner announced a second run for Congress in Ohio’s 11th District. She spoke with Jacobin about fighting pro-corporate Democrats, frustrations with the Biden administration, and why “evil never sleeps, so good can never take a vacation.”
“Antiwar Sentiment in the Military Is Stronger Than Ever.”
Iraq War veteran Mike Prysner on what the military-industrial complex gained by staying in Afghanistan so long, what’s next for US empire, and why antiwar sentiment is rising among active-duty soldiers.
What’s the Difference Between Kyle Rittenhouse and the Police?
Rather than asking whether law enforcement and vigilantes like Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse support or oppose one another, we can see them as different groups who are both performing the same function — policing society.
Welcome to Utopia, TX
This small town was envisioned as a socialist paradise. Now it’s Trump country.
We Can Organize Amazon, but Only If We Understand It
Organizing Amazon workers is both an existential challenge and an opportunity for labor. But the company’s cash advantages and operational flexibility mean that traditional union tactics won’t be enough. We need strategies that combine disruption and scale.
The Five Star Movement Turns to the Left, Belatedly
Italy’s Five Star Movement was long a classic “populist” movement, rejecting ideological labels. Its recent decision to join the left-wing group in the EU parliament is the latest step in a turn toward a more distinctly pro-labor, pacifist stance.
How Liberalism Betrayed the Enlightenment and Lost Its Soul
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 Running Man Trips Across the Starting Line
Edgar Wright’s dystopian satire, The Running Man, tries to play it safe and ends up pleasing no one.
We’re Still Living Under Capitalism, Not “Techno-Feudalism”
Yanis Varoufakis’s Technofeudalism offers sharp insights into the rise of "cloud capital," but misreads it as inaugurating an entirely new economic system. The enemy is still capitalism, even if in a novel form.
Podemos Must Become an Anti-Establishment Force Again
Pablo Iglesias has entered into talks with Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Party. But if Podemos is to survive, it can’t just be a junior partner to the establishment center-left: it needs to revive its promise to transform Spanish democracy.