Podemos’s Road to Somewhere
A year of perplexing U-turns has left the Podemos project muddled — and the party falling in the polls.
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We Need Class Politics to End Our Second Gilded Age
We talk with historian Matt Karp about how ending our great age of inequality will take a renewed working-class politics.
A Future in Common
Jean-Luc Mélenchon told Monday night’s Jacobin rally that the threat to the planet demands new forms of popular mobilization.
England Doesn’t Exist
There’s a void at the heart of English identity, with its reliance on empty clichés and old dreams of empire. But decentralizing power to the regions points to an alternative — replacing narrow nationalism with an inclusive community pride.
Glenn Greenwald Is Innocent
The Bolsonaro government’s attack on Glenn Greenwald is an attack on free speech and democracy. We should unequivocally stand by his side.
Socialists Should Talk About Aspiration
Rebecca Long-Bailey's "aspirational socialism" is an attempt to overcome a pervasive problem: after a decade of austerity, many working people don't believe that politics can make their lives better.
In and Against the Brazilian State
A study of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement is rich with lessons for socialists who want to use the state without being captured by it.
We Need Mandatory Reselection
Mandatory reselection isn’t about settling old scores. It’s about opening up politics to ordinary people.
Privatization Failed — Even the Tories Are Admitting It
Boris Johnson’s Conservative government has announced it will be renationalizing British train lines. It’s further proof that privatization is being discredited around the world.
Iran’s Quiet Counterrevolution
Decades of neoliberalism have reshaped Iranian society — leaving its battered Left in a quandary.
The Politics of France Insoumise
In the wake of its impressive performance in last year’s presidential campaign, the movement around Jean-Luc Mélenchon has set about establishing a new kind of political organization.
Sinn Féin’s Day Is Coming
Last Saturday's Irish election was a historic breakthrough for Sinn Féin, the most-voted party for the first time. An organizer for the party writes how austerity drove a working-class backlash — and how Sinn Féin plans to turn voter revolt into real change.
Oscar Wilde Wasn’t Just a Satirist. He Was a Socialist.
Much more than just the wit and satirist of his posthumous reputation, Oscar Wilde was a radical thinker who posed a fundamental challenge to the conservative mores of late Victorian England. His thinking on liberation led him to imagine a socialist future in which creativity can flourish across all of society.
Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Bernie Sanders Isn’t Electable
The belief that Bernie Sanders is too left-wing to win a presidential election is an article of faith among journalists and pundits. It's also completely unfounded.
Zoo Without a Giraffe
Italy’s Democratic Party wants to lead the resistance against the government’s hard-right policies. Yet the party seems close to its death-knell.
Our American Zion
The racism and red-baiting of Bari Weiss’s latest book, How to Fight Anti-Semitism, isn’t an accident. It reflects her deep conflation of her own Judaism with American exceptionalism and the US global empire.
Why Syriza’s Defeat Still Haunts the Left
Five years after Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras capitulated to the Troika, the Left’s challenge to European neoliberalism is weaker than ever. The Greek case showed how the Left could exploit ruling-class crisis — but also the tragic consequences of a failure to prepare for power.
Will Big Money Defeat Bernie Sanders?
Thomas Ferguson’s work traces the history of how big money buys politics in America. He recently sat down with Jacobin to talk about Bernie Sanders, the superrich, and how the flood of corporate cash is shaping the Democratic primary.
Fighting Hopelessness
Italy’s left is struggling to present an alternative in an election where abstention is expected to hit record levels.
“Liberals Speak Up for the Poor, But Never Let the Poor Speak for Themselves”
Unite’s general secretary, Len McCluskey, told us why all working people should be in trade unions — and why we can’t rely on anyone else to speak up on our behalf.