Labour’s election defeat reflected problems of messaging and strategy, but also a much deeper lack of organizational roots. Faced with a huge Tory majority, Labour MPs should use their platform to help rebuild our movement at its historic source — the workplace itself.
The best way to reform Silicon Valley is to strike at the root of its power — and that means taking on private ownership.
For socialists, unions are paradoxical organizations. On the one hand, unions are essential for creating a workers' organization that can oppose capital and challenge it for power. But they are also an insufficient vehicle for mobilizing those workers to transform the world.
Labour’s plan for a Green Industrial Revolution promised to put climate crisis at the heart of Britain’s general election. But the need for radical solutions soon dropped off the agenda — allowing the defining issue of our time to be once again ignored.
Today Alberto Garzón was sworn in as a minister in Spain’s new government — the first communist to take up such a role since the Civil War. He spoke to Jacobin about what it means to be a communist today and how Spain’s social movements can shape the next government’s agenda.
The UK university strike has put management on the defensive. Now UCU members will have to decide what counts as a victory.
With clear and inclusive class politics, the Left can unite the victims of Tory austerity and beat Boris Johnson at the polls.
The British prime minister’s vow to “defeat socialism today” reveals a leadership laughably bereft of ideas.
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.
The Bolsonaro government’s attack on Glenn Greenwald is an attack on free speech and democracy. We should unequivocally stand by his side.
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.
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.
A year of perplexing U-turns has left the Podemos project muddled — and the party falling in the polls.
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.
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.
Latin America's largest economy is in disarray; its historic Workers Party faces destruction; and its radical left searches for a response.
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.
As the links between capitalism and ecological crisis become more and more evident, the political philosophy of ecosocialism has been gaining support. Left-wing environmentalists have no shortage of ideas: now they need a strategy that can achieve the necessary power.
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.
It’s we who represent the many. And the Democrat intelligentsia who represents the powerful few.