With Brexit, It’s the Geography, Stupid
Pundits analyzing Britain’s Leave vote obsess over everything but what mattered: decades of economic decay in declining regions.
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A Railroad Worker Strike Could Shake the Economy’s Foundations
Once a coveted job, conditions for railroad workers have badly deteriorated. But railroad workers are central to our economy — so central that a current impasse between railroad companies and associated unions has prompted Joe Biden to intervene.
“If You Want to Call Me a Socialist Then Call Me a Socialist”
Conservative Democrat Eliot Engel’s grip on New York’s 16th congressional district appears to be slipping. We talk to Justice Democrats–endorsed contender Jamaal Bowman about the need to break with establishment politics.
The Boy Who Shot a Nazi
Eighty-three years ago today, the Nazis unleashed a vicious pogrom known as Kristallnacht, using as their pretext the assassination of a Nazi official in France. The assassin: a 17-year-old German-Polish Jewish boy named Herschel Grynszpan.
A. Philip Randolph Was Once “the Most Dangerous Negro in America”
The organizer of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech was also the leader of the first successful black labor union. For A. Philip Randolph, labor and civil rights were one and the same.
How to Think About (And Win) Socialism
A revolutionary rupture is not on the horizon, but capitalism can still be overcome.
Uber’s Proposal for Portable Benefits Is a Poison Pill
Uber has finally found a jurisdiction in Canada that will allow it to create a new legal category for its workforce. To sweeten the deal, it's offering a meager portable benefits system — but the actual benefits will all accrue to Uber.
Are Debtors the New Workers of the World?
Mass household indebtedness is a key feature of financialized capitalism, driving insecurity and sustaining poverty around the world. Could a union of debtors join forces to agitate for the abolition of all consumer debt?
Les Simerables
SimCity isn’t a sandbox. Its rules reflect the neoliberal common sense of today’s urban planning.
Will the Saudis Go to War?
The Persian Gulf may be on the brink of a new regional war.
How Red Vienna Revolutionized Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud often regretted the fact that most of his patients were drawn from the upper classes. But when socialists turned Vienna “red” after World War I, neurotics both rich and poor gained access to free treatment and new experimental methods.
Why the Media Is Pro-Israel
An accurate telling of the Israel-Palestine conflict would tell of Israel violently colonizing Palestine with US support. Instead, media outlets present fables in which both sides are equally to blame.
Danny Glover on Amazon Workers’ Struggle to Organize in Alabama
Legendary actor and longtime progressive activist Danny Glover was recently in Bessemer, Alabama, supporting workers’ efforts to organize a union there. In an interview, Glover talks about what brought him to Bessemer, his own labor history, and why the Amazon workers’ “struggle has significance for all of us.”
The Sharing Economy Comes to Mexico
Mexico's neoliberal reforms have created fertile ground for exploitative "sharing-economy" apps to grow.
Pauli Murray Was a Civil Rights Trailblazer
Organizer, lawyer, professor, priest — Pauli Murray held many titles throughout her life. But as a black lesbian with a burning hatred of oppression, her goal was always the same: to challenge discrimination and topple the brutal hierarchies of US society.
Safe Space for Capital
How did a brand of gay-friendly values become synonymous with those most prized by capitalist urban redevelopment?
Traitors to Their Class
Rich people today mostly post Instagram photos of themselves. They used to sometimes do left-wing politics too.
Bolivia’s Passive Revolution
Evo Morales's government has increasingly incorporated conservative elements into the Bolivian state.
The Green Transition Can’t Be an Excuse to Fire Workers
German engineering giant Bosch is mounting massive layoffs in the name of adapting to the electric car market. But workers insist the move is really about increasing profits — and climate protesters have joined the fight to save their jobs.