The Latest Defeat
The ILWU leadership has accepted a deal that will further cripple their union.
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African Unity Can’t Take Place on France’s Terms
Last Sunday, the military rulers of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger quit West African economic union ECOWAS. It’s a major blow to the regional integration project — and a rebuke to Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to interfere in France’s former colonies.
Dead Center
The Labour Party defectors keep repeating the tired centrist refrain that the public is hungering for moderation. The whole history of the past generation shows otherwise.
Unions Can Organize High-Turnover Workplaces
Organizing workplaces like Amazon with enormous turnover is a steep challenge. But workers there and elsewhere are experimenting with different tactics to unionize despite the churn.
Here’s What Bernie Could Do in Power
From climate change to criminal justice and student debt: here's what Bernie Sanders could do if he had executive office and mass popular support, but faced a hostile Congress.
Don’t the Rich Deserve to Keep Their Money?
Wealth is socially created — redistribution just allows more people to enjoy the fruits of their labor.
On Fredric Jameson
Jameson writes from an immense sense of engagement with the world around him, and with faith in what that engagement might accomplish.
A Radical Choice
San Juan mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz gained international attention by challenging Donald Trump’s callous response to Hurricane María. Now she’s co-chairing Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign.
Weekly Sisyphus #2
Is Europe entering the “Age of Austerity”?
An Island of Little Landlords
Britain’s young people no longer want to be doctors, lawyers, or engineers. They just want to collect rent.
Workers at a Boeing Supplier Raised Issues About Defects. The Company Didn’t Listen.
Weeks before the door plug blew out of an Alaska Airlines flight over Portland, Oregon, on January 5, grounding more than 150 Boeing aircraft, workers at the part’s reported manufacturer had been warning of safety concerns — but management ignored them.
True to Life: An Interview with Martin Hägglund
Martin Hägglund speaks about This Life, his new book about love, grief, wealth, and Karl Marx.
Higher Education Can Be Free
Oregon's "Pay It Forward" plan is based on a neoliberal understanding of education as a commodity.
On Halloween Night in 1891, Tennessee Miners Made Righteous Mayhem
The Coal Creek War was one of the largest insurrections in American labor history, with thousands of miners batting state troops to end the convict leasing system designed to extend slavery and undermine organized labor.
Revenge of the Nerds
No act of consumption is completely passive, but even the most active types of consumption form a shaky ground for serious left politics.
The Third Way International
Throughout the 1990s, Bill Clinton and other Democratic Leadership Council figures launched a campaign to take their Third Way ideology global.
The Red Children’s Stories
In nineteenth-century Britain, a rich tradition of socialist fables and children’s stories denounced the capitalist system and its frightening inequities.
Erdoğan’s Violent Last Resort
The ongoing attacks against Kurds in Turkey are part of a last-ditch effort by Erdoğan to hold onto power.
The Poverty of Indian Ideology
Perry Anderson's The Indian Ideology takes on the contradictions of India's political system.