A Mighty Wind
Democrats are endorsing striking teachers. That doesn’t mean the party’s abandoning its education agenda, but it does mean that the working class is making itself harder to ignore.
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The City Where British Working-Class History Is Still Alive
UK Labour MP and potential party leader Rebecca Long Bailey has spent her life immersed in Salford and its working-class life. The right-wing British press wants to undermine those politics by attacking the city. But Salford’s history reflects the best of British working-class culture.
No More Health Care Half-Fixes
Attempts to fix America’s health care crisis that aren’t universal, simple, and don’t eliminate private insurance are doomed to fail. We need a Medicare for All plan that covers everyone, period.
After Disarmament
The leftist Basque group ETA has laid down its arms. What's next for the independence movement?
The Australian Labor Party’s Official Election Review Learns All the Wrong Lessons
Six months after the Australian Labor Party lost what was widely regarded as an unlosable election, the party released its internal review of the defeat. The document refuses to face the real reasons for the catastrophe, while proposing a potentially disastrous shift to the right.
Advertising in Austerity
With a week to go until the elections, Greece's final campaign advertisements show the tides are still with Syriza.
Capitalism Won’t Save El Salvador
Market-led development pits private profit against the public good. It can't solve El Salvador's epidemic of violence.
Pawtucket, America’s First Factory Strike
This week 194 years ago, Rhode Island textile workers waged the first factory strike in US history. It was organized by young women.
The Story of the February Revolution
Russian workers went on strike on International Women's Day 1917. They ended up toppling tsarism.
Serving the People
Our organizing can't just speak to the everyday crises of people's lives under capitalism. It has to intervene in them.
FiveThirtyEight’s Venezuela Problem
When it comes to Venezuela, shoddy data work and simplistic reasoning are too often embraced.
Springtime for Modi
Under Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party's two main tenets are clear: neoliberal orthodoxy and violent Hindu nationalism.
About That Stock Panic
The stock market's panicked reaction to signs of wage growth shows just how weak the economy is — and how much it caters to the wealthy.
In New York City, Momentum Behind Cutting the NYPD Budget Is Growing
Activists and advocates in New York City have long called for the city to make sharp cuts to the NYPD, the nation's largest police force. The uprising against police brutality, in New York and around the country, has suddenly put serious momentum behind those demands.
German Unions Are Waking up to the Climate Disaster
The call to stop the production of coal and cars often sounds like a threat to jobs. But German trade unions have realized that the green transition needs to happen — and they’re fighting to make sure it’s bosses, not workers, who pay for climate justice.
When Liberals Fell in Love With Benito Mussolini
Today marks 100 years since Benito Mussolini became Italy’s prime minister. His first governments pursued austerity and suppressed the labor movement — earning him the praise of liberal economists both in Italy and abroad.
The Only Thing You Need to Read About the Inane Cuties Controversy
The controversy over the new Netflix movie Cuties is so stupid, you never should’ve heard about it. But it’s gotten so hysterically overblown by this point, it can’t be ignored anymore.
Yes, Politics Do Belong in Sports
FC St. Pauli isn't Germany's best football club, but its resistance to commercialization has earned it a mass following around the world. Resisting the call to "keep politics out of sports," its fans insist that what sports really need protecting from is the pervasive power of money.
The Revolutionary Genius of Ludwig van Beethoven
250 years after his birth, Beethoven’s music still has an exhilarating, subversive power. His revolution of artistic form was intimately linked to his sympathy for the political revolutions of his time.
“We Fought for a Freer, Greener East Germany”
The East German protests in the fall of 1989 included many who aspired for a democratic socialism. In the state's final years, the young supporters of the Modern Socialism Project fought for an alternative to authoritarianism — promoting an ecological socialism rooted in democratic rights.