Contract negotiations are ongoing between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three automakers — Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. Last month, 500 UAW members at the Ford plant in Louisville, Kentucky, held rallies in preparation for a potential strike.
Since the latest uprising for racial justice began, police throughout the country have been very friendly with cop-worshipping, armed right-wingers who have shown up on the streets across America to oppose protesters. The teenage shooter in Kenosha who killed two protesters this week wasn’t the first and probably won’t be the last.
For as long as the team has existed, the Matildas have stood up against sexist discrimination and exploitation. Now they’re within striking distance of the Women’s World Cup.
We spoke with indie singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus about being a musician during the pandemic, her supergroup boygenius, the state of the music industry, and her very public support of and admiration for Bernie Sanders.
The Long Island University lockout is over. A rank-and-file librarian explains how faculty won and why it matters for public education around the country.
Keir Starmer wants to weaken the European Convention on Human Rights, hoping that this will win back voters from Nigel Farage’s Reform UK. In the name of fighting right-wing politics, he’s handing more powers to a future Farage-led government.
Obama's labor board failed to protect union salts. Now union busters can go back on the attack.
The comedian, actor, and political activist Russell Brand on political polarization and how establishment voices attempt to silence dissent.
Labour MP Navendu Mishra spoke to Jacobin about the UK government’s feeble response to coronavirus — and why workers with precarious income and housing need help now
We need to be uncivil to preserve academic freedom and take on the corporate university.
Trump's administration will embolden the Right to harass, suppress, and silence any criticism of Israel.
Succession, the HBO drama about a Rupert Murdoch–esque billionaire and his dysfunctional family, is ending this weekend. Executive producer Frank Rich discusses the show’s critique of corporate media and what’s made the series so compelling.
Mining multinational Vale is trying to strip its workers in Sudbury of vital benefits using the pandemic as cover. They’ve responded with strike action, building on a long tradition of militant trade unionism in the region.
Protests are growing in Ecuador, where radicals must contend with both the Right and Rafael Correa.
The Bundestag has voted to make Germany the country with the highest military budget after the United States and China. For decades, Germany has tightly restricted social spending — but when the money is for weapons, no such limits apply.
The Indian state of Punjab shows us that caste oppression owes far more to material interests than it does to inherited religious ideologies. A movement of Dalit rural workers offers a powerful example of how that oppression can be challenged today.
This week, a Georgia chemical plant suffered yet another accident, releasing toxic fumes into an Atlanta suburb for at least the fourth time. The plant falls into a yawning regulatory loophole that chemical industry lobbying has kept open for years.
The German right made stunning gains in this month's regional elections. The Left must rise to the challenge.
Blaming all of humanity for climate change lets capitalism off the hook.