Former British prime minister David Cameron has been exposed using his contacts in government to help out his new bosses at finance firm Greensill Capital. The scandal points to the cronyism among Britain’s elites — and how a wider culture of privatization and outsourcing provides a breeding ground for corruption.
Northern League, Five Star Movement . . . Berlusconi? Why the Right is set to dominate the Italian election.
With its poll numbers slipping, Podemos is searching for ways to recapture this spring's energy.
Don’t cry in your champagne. Here’s the best of Jacobin from a remarkable year.
The coronavirus pandemic has ushered in a series of emergency measures to reorient our economies toward the public health care response. The crisis offers a glimpse of how production could be made to serve social needs — but only if we defeat those who want a return to capitalist normality.
We all love Joe Hill, but his famous piece of advice — “Don’t mourn, organize!” — is only half right. Given the state of the world today, with Bernie Sanders out of the presidential race and hundreds of thousands dead from the coronavirus, we ought to be doing both.
A universal basic income would shore up the market. We need ideas that shrink 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.
As Argentina's right consolidates power, left-wing victories at the local level are crucial to reclaiming political space.
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.
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.
Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias talks to Jacobin about the Catalan elections, the future of Spain’s left, and the fight for state power.
Italy’s left is struggling to present an alternative in an election where abstention is expected to hit record levels.
Li Andersson, the leader of Finland’s Left Alliance, on the country’s diminishing welfare state, rising populist right, and possible socialist future.
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.
A reply to Angela Nagle and Michael Tracey.
Our movement will exhaust itself if it's only fueled by outrage. We need to win people to a positive vision of a better world.
"We want a left that can learn from 1917 Russia and 1976 Sweden."
If everything is political, then nothing is political.
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.