Taking the Fight to Every State
The deck is stacked against us at the state level in the United States. But it’s crucial that we fight and win there.
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Joe Biden and the Democrats Could Still Screw This Up
Joe Biden delivered the speech of the convention and maintains a large lead in what should be an unlosable election. So why does it feel like it could all suddenly fall apart?
Rudolf Hilferding and the Austrian School of Anti-Capitalism
The Austrian Marxist Rudolf Hilferding (1877–1941) produced an important and influential analysis of capitalism, and he played an active role in Austrian and German politics before falling victim to Nazism. He still has a lot to teach us about the way modern capitalism works.
What Canada’s Social Democrats Can Do Now
Despite a disappointing result in Monday’s elections, the NDP has embraced its most socialist program in a generation. To recover and to win, it must continue to offer Canadians an alternative to neoliberalism.
The Day Women Brought Iceland to a Standstill
On October 24, 1975 over 90 percent of Icelandic women refused to work. The aim: to show how much society depended on women’s labor, from farms and factories to the home.
Make GM Government Motors Again
Let’s nationalize General Motors. Why not? We could completely overhaul the company to benefit its workers, the planet, and the entire society.
In Belarus, Labor Is Struggling to Find Its Voice
Since Belarus’s disputed election, both President Alexander Lukashenko and the liberal opposition have recognized the importance of strike actions in deciding what happens next. But while there have been protests across Belarus’s major workplaces, a long-shackled labor movement faces an uphill struggle to advance a political agenda of its own.
Alex Morse: “I Would Be One of the Few Democrats That Stands Up To the Democratic Party”
The progressive congressional candidate talks to Jacobin about the smear campaign he’s endured, the limitations of a Joe Biden presidency plus Richard Neal chairmanship, his record on policing, his personal relationship to the opioid crisis, and democratic socialism.
France’s Crackdown on Islamic Dress in Schools Is a Crude Attack on Muslims
France’s education minister has banned girls in public schools from wearing the abaya, a loose-fitting Islamic dress. Emmanuel Macron’s government is whipping up conflict over identity — but ignoring the real problems that face France’s underfunded classrooms.
José Carlos Mariátegui’s Indo-American Socialism
José Carlos Mariátegui was Latin America’s most original revolutionary thinker, who combined Marxist analyses with the vernacular of regional popular movements. Ninety years after his premature death, his work is strikingly relevant.
Chicago Educators Are Poised to Strike
The Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 73 are on the verge of a strike. Their demands are focused on improving conditions in classrooms — and they’re willing to walk off the job to make it happen.
Trump’s Border Policy Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Trump’s sadistic border policy is just the most visible part of a bipartisan — and worldwide — clampdown on freedom of movement. But resistance to it is growing.
From QAnon to Kyle Rittenhouse, the Right Is Sinking Deeper Into an Alternate Reality
Instability is a permanent feature of capitalism, but the coronavirus pandemic has introduced a whole new level of volatility. Amid the turmoil, the American right is dreaming more feverishly than ever of apocalypse and heroism.
Marek Edelman and the Struggle for Democracy in Poland
Marek Edelman was a leader of the heroic Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi genocide. After 1945, Edelman stayed on in Poland as a champion of democratic socialism who played a courageous role in the country’s dissident movement.
Lenín Moreno Has Betrayed Ecuador. Now the Country Is in Revolt.
Ecuador’s Lenín Moreno promised a less “divisive” approach than his left-wing predecessor Rafael Correa. But Ecuadorians are seeing through his con and resisting austerity and neoliberal reforms.
CORE’s Coming Out Party
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis recounts the creation of her union’s CORE caucus.
Long Live the Post Office
The Post Office has been a central force for democracy in American society. We can’t let the Right destroy it now.
Labour and the Fight for a United Ireland
The border controversy is just the latest episode in the epic of Britain’s political establishment and their willful ignorance of Ireland.
Last Night’s Elections Remind Us Change Doesn’t Come Overnight
Yesterday's primaries were full of disappointments for the Left. But by rallying around the Green New Deal's coauthor Ed Markey and striking fear into the hearts of conservative incumbents, progressives and leftists have put the Democratic establishment on notice.