Bashar al-Assad has started confiscating the homes of Syrians who fled during the Civil War. For decades, his clan has purged the state of all but the most fanatical loyalists: now, it’s doing the same to society itself.
The Los Angeles Unified School District has billions stored away, which it refuses to spend to solve the worsening crises facing local public schools. While the district’s penny-pinching serves those at the top, students and teachers are paying the price.
The inflation crisis is squeezing workers. And the only way out of it that is acceptable to capitalists is to squeeze workers even harder.
Margaret Thatcher’s war on the mining industry was a concerted attack on the trade union movement. It was a successful class war waged from above — and its ill effects are still felt in every corner of Britain.
Not only did Bertolt Brecht transform German drama, but his work captured his radical commitment to socialist politics and the emancipation of working people.
Abortion rights in the United States are in greater danger than any time since Roe v. Wade — and the abortion rights movement’s national leadership has proven incapable of mounting the kind of strategy needed to protect it. That needs to change.
In the wake of the UAW's loss at Nissan, it's clear that the dominant strategies for winning a union aren't working.
Imprisoned, exiled, and threatened with death, Peruvian activist Hugo Blanco never once wavered in his commitment to peasant liberation. Latin America’s unbreakable revolutionary will be sorely missed.
Today is the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators, the Chicago Teachers Union caucus that transformed the union into the powerful force it is today. CTU vice president Jackson Potter reflects on the caucus’s legacy.
McKinsey consultants have packaged capitalism for decades, offering a glimpse into the moral compass of the ruling class.
As Canadian workers face down rising living costs on stagnant wages while corporate profits soar, the country’s financial press is raising the alarm over a coming “labor Armageddon.” Such a reckoning would be both unsurprising and fully warranted.
Tension is mounting as Israeli state repression and settler violence are being matched by an upsurge in Palestinian resistance. Palestinian liberation movement leader Khalida Jarrar says the situation is reaching a breaking point.
Although Iraq’s Communist Party has lost much of the support it enjoyed at its peak, it still has a real presence on the Iraqi political scene. Its general secretary Ra’id Fahmi tells Jacobin about the need to challenge Iraq’s sectarian power structure.
Louis Proyect, who died this week, spent the 1980s organizing international delegations of technical workers to support the Nicaraguan revolution. In this previously unpublished interview, he reflects on Central American solidarity efforts and a life lived on the Left.
American workers are sharing their stories of life on unemployment benefits. The horrors of our collective surrender to the market are on full display.
In the mid-20th century, union leader Harry Van Arsdale Jr became obsessed with a simple idea: fewer working hours would mean a need for more workers, and therefore more jobs. He considered it the solution to unemployment, and his union fought to realize it.
Michael Eric Dyson's attack on Cornel West signals the bankruptcy of the black political class.
The United Teachers of Los Angeles are on the precipice of a historic strike against corporate education reform.
From brands commissioning immersive installations at prestigious art fairs to hedge funds transforming artworks into stock-like financial instruments, the line between art and capital is blurrier than ever.
The real Wild West was the scene of state-organized displacement and mass class struggle, not rugged individualism.