“We Are The Lions, Mr. Manager”
On this day in 1976, a group of Asian immigrants in London began a strike that would define an era.
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Liberal Democracy Is in Trouble — And Liberals Won’t Save It
The term “post-democracy” refers to the recent process where democratic institutions have been hollowed out and citizens increasingly excluded from decision-making. But a serious response to this problem can’t just denounce its “populist” symptoms — rather, we need to examine the deeper social ills stemming from economic liberalism itself.
The Case Against a Basic Income
A universal basic income would shore up the market. We need ideas that shrink it.
When the Left Grew Up
When Jacobin was founded in the aftermath of the financial crisis, the Left wasdominated by academic jargon, sectarian organizations, and samba bands. Ten yearslater, we have a long way to go, but it’s become a lot easier to talk about socialismas a real political force.
No, We Don’t Want a “War Economy” to Deal With the Pandemic
Many pundits have likened the massive government interventions in response to COVID-19 to states' resource mobilization during the World Wars. But this “war socialism” has never been the same thing as serving human need — and today it’s being used as a means of propping up private capital.
Burying White Workers
Liberal condescension towards white workers is code for a broader anti-working class agenda
The 2017 Jacobin Mixtape
Don’t cry in your champagne. Here’s the best of Jacobin from a remarkable year.
How Australia’s First Mardi Gras Fought for Gay and Lesbian Liberation
In 1968, Ken Davis became a socialist while still in high school — ten years later, he helped to lead the first Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras in Sydney. As Davis explains, the struggle for gay rights in Australia formed part of a global fight for liberation.
How Capitalism and Other Viruses Are Ravaging the Global South
Across the Global South, the coronavirus crisis has highlighted how IMF “structural adjustment” policies have undermined public health care. But the devastation wrought by the economic shutdown also owes to a longer-term ill: an exploitative global trade regime where the poorest countries finance the rich.
We Need a Class War, Not a Culture War
A reply to Angela Nagle and Michael Tracey.
The Narco-State to the North
The astronomical levels of drug violence and corruption in Mexico can be directly attributed to the policies of the United States.
The Country With No Left
In the mid 1960s, the Indonesian military massacred hundreds of thousands of radicals. The country's left still hasn't recovered.
From Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics
If everything is political, then nothing is political.
Remembering Capitalism’s Crimes
A new book uncovers the reality of America's victory in the Cold War — detailing how massacres of leftists in twenty-two countries helped to overcome resistance to capitalism across the world, writes Grace Blakeley.
“Defenders of Democracy” Aren’t Bothered by Its End in Bolivia
A new study is the latest to undermine widespread claims of electoral fraud by Bolivia’s Evo Morales. It isn’t the first such debunking — yet democracy remains betrayed in Bolivia, and “pro-democracy” voices don’t seem too bothered.
Losing the Battle and the War
Compromising on abortion rights has the potential to undermine the entire left project.
Up From Liberalism
Only a forthright anticapitalism can end the reign of Third Way politics.
Noam Chomsky: The Elites Are Fighting a Vicious Class War All the Time
Noam Chomsky talks to Jacobin about why working-class politics can secure universal health care, climate justice, and an end to nuclear weapons — if we’re willing to fight for them.
Saving the World From Capitalism by Taking Power
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.
Canada’s Media Establishment Is Afraid the NDP Will Shift Left
The recent NDP convention passed several important left-wing motions, and Canada’s conservative pundits lined up to ridicule the prospect of a left turn by Jagmeet Singh’s party. Beneath the bluster, they’re clearly worried that left ideas have the potential to gain wide support.