A Bill for Trump’s Madness Will Come Due
Donald Trump once said that under him, we would “get tired of winning.” As the United States sees credit downgrades, deep budget cuts, and potential fiscal crises, the wins are pretty hard to find.
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How Flint Sit-Down Strikers Built Their Confidence
We can’t revive labor without reviving workers’ confidence to take action on the job. In 1936 and into 1937, during a period of union weakness, Flint’s sit-down strikers in the auto industry figured out how to do just that.
Glen Powell’s How to Make a Killing Is Too Squeamish to Land
How to Make a Killing, starring Glen Powell, is a modern-day remake of a 1949 British black comedy classic. But whereas the original found comedy in the ruthless murder of a nasty aristocracy, this remake is far too timid for our times.
John Rawls Was Wrong to Think We Could Have a Just Capitalism
The ideas of John Rawls, perhaps the greatest political philosopher of the 20th century, have much to teach the Left. But Rawls’s theory of justice failed to grapple adequately with the fundamental obstacles capitalism imposes to realizing a just society.
The Many Deaths of Klinghoffer
The Death Of Klinghoffer isn’t antisemitic. It’s anti-peace.
Barcelona Shows How the Left Can Win
Spain goes to the polls today after a general election campaign electrified by the jailing of Catalan leaders. But Podemos’s regional alliance is resisting the rival nationalisms — and showing what the Left can achieve in office.
Let Chelsea Go
The US government is holding Chelsea Manning in solitary confinement again. It’s a vindictive, unconscionable attack on a brave truth teller.
The Resentful and the Damned
Matteo Salvini’s hard-right Lega used to want independence for Northern Italy. Today, the party is building a reactionary base in the South.
Donald Trump Is Buckley’s Rightful Heir
The only thing that separates Donald Trump and the genteel conservatives who reject him is a few degrees of vulgarity.
The Left Must Address a Historic Crisis of Representation
The defeats for Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn point to the Left’s difficulties in overcoming old party machines. Bottom-up labor organizing may sound like an attractive alternative — but it shouldn’t ignore the power of left populism in uniting people outside the workplace.
It’s Not Enough to Fight — Labor and the Left Have to Be Serious About How to Win
Unions and the Left across the globe have the power to defeat the billionaires. But Jane McAlevey explains that doing this requires we learn the best traditions of labor organizing — and that we talk to people who don’t already agree with us and win them over to our side.
Bernie Sanders Can Lead the Fight Against Coronavirus. Joe Biden Can’t.
At Sunday’s debate, Bernie Sanders can make clear that the policies he has long fought for, and Joe Biden has long opposed, are the ones we need to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Sanders has a chance to hit Biden hard — he shouldn't hold back.
At All Costs
Canada's tar sands are destructive and massively inefficient. But for capitalists, they're the future.
The Immodest Victorian Socialists
Socialists have long been on the margins of Australian political life. That's beginning to change.
The Washington Post’s War on Bernie Continues
The war on Bernie Sanders carried out by the Washington Post is unfair, dishonest, and never-ending. As long as Sanders stands with workers in opposition to the bosses and billionaires who own the media, he can expect more of the same treatment.
Only Corbynism Can Defeat Boris
Some are calling for Labour to cozy up to the political center to beat Boris Johnson. They're wrong: watering down Labour’s democratic socialist program would be a historic mistake.
A Soldier for Peace
The life of French General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière shows how the strongest voices against war and militarism can come from the military’s own ranks.
Education, Inc.
A Jacobin investigation finds widespread corruption at one of the nation’s largest charter school networks.
New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
At this weekend's ANC congress, South Africa doesn’t need a new leader, it needs a new economy.
Australia’s Slow-Motion Crisis
With both major parties widely discredited, turmoil rules in Australian politics.