Making Space for Palestine
Palestinians aren’t just kept in misery and degradation by the Israeli occupation — they’re also silenced, at home and abroad. Palestinian activists and their supporters are trying to change that.
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Kshama Sawant: Democrats and the Right Are Attacking Me — And Left Movements Everywhere
For Seattle’s ruling class, having even one socialist, Kshama Sawant, on city council is far too many. Which is why, Sawant writes in Jacobin, since she first won office in 2013, the attacks from Democrats, the Right, and corporate juggernauts like Amazon haven’t stopped attacking her.
Our Road to Power
The twentieth century left socialists plenty of lessons. Will we heed them?
Follow the Money
Canadian autoworkers are demanding control over companies' investments. Will it work?
How a President Bernie Sanders Could Take on Wall Street
If Bernie Sanders wins the presidency, he’ll confront numerous obstacles to his agenda. To overcome those obstacles, we need a strategy to take on capital, especially Wall Street — and we need to start thinking about that strategy right now.
Why Australia Supports Israel’s Oppression of the Palestinians
Australia has a record of loyal support for Israeli state racism and human rights abuses that puts even the US to shame. In order to change that record, we need to challenge the political forces that have made Australia Israel’s most faithful ally.
“The Spoiler” Speaks
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on her campaign and building an alternative to the two corporate parties.
A Place Called Lambeth
The Labour left mounted a grassroots challenge to Thatcherism in the 1980s, only to be undermined by their own party’s leadership.
To Recapture the Spirit of the Indignados, Podemos Has to Speak to Working People
Coming almost exactly ten years since Spain’s Indignados protests, Pablo Iglesias’s retirement as Podemos leader marks the end of a political era. In its early years, Podemos appealed to Spaniards outside traditional left-wing circles — yet it failed to build a party working people could consider their own.
Nationalize the Pubs
One hundred years ago, Britain nationalized hundreds of its pubs — and invented a better drinking culture.
A Sharing Economy Strike
London's striking Deliveroo drivers are in a fight against the worst exploitation and abuse of the sharing economy.
In 1972, Britain’s Miners Showed the Power of the Working Class
Fifty years ago today, British miners concluded a national strike after defeating their Conservative government. The 1972 victory opened up a decade of working-class radicalism, before Margaret Thatcher’s counterrevolution crippled organized labor.
The Democratic Deficit
The problem of the day isn't too much democracy. It's the accumulation of power by elites.
John le Carré Told the Truth About Cold War Espionage When Few Others Would
John le Carré died Saturday at age eighty-nine. His novels rejected the glamor and ritz of Cold War–era spy fiction. Instead, he portrayed espionage as a dreary, disturbing machine that ground up innocents for a goal that didn’t justify the human cost.
There’s Nothing Complicated About What’s Happening in Palestine
We should be absolutely clear about what’s going on in Jerusalem: one of the most militarized nations in the world, Israel, is carrying out its brutal occupation using racist violence and ethnic cleansing.
Ending Harperism
Two days before the Canadian election, Stephen Harper's Conservatives seem on the verge of losing power.
Students at Columbia and the University of Manchester Are Rejecting Austerity in Higher Ed
Across the world, universities have seen rising tuition costs, bloated administrations, and worsening conditions for students in recent decades. By organizing a rent strike at the University of Manchester and a tuition strike at Columbia, undergraduates at the two schools are drawing a line in the sand against higher-ed austerity.
The Rules Have Changed
The Brexit result and Donald Trump's rise are products of elite disconnect from ordinary voters.
Right-Wing Populism May Be Wounded, But It’s Certainly Not Dead
With Trump’s defeat and other setbacks for the Right around the world, some commentators have proclaimed the death of right-populism. But the structural factors that gave rise to it remain in place, and only a recharged left-wing movement can address them.
Undergraduates Are Workers, Too
Undergraduates aren't just students — they're increasingly also workers.