What’s Wrong With the AFT?
The American Federation of Teachers' top-down endorsement of Hillary Clinton is an affront to democratic unionism.
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Bipartisanship Is Garbage
Centrist pundits and politicians are cheering the new bipartisan infrastructure bill, even though it slashes a range of vital spending programs contained in the original. We don’t need continued fetishization of bipartisanship — we need measures that actually aid the working-class majority.
The Myth of “Populism”
It's the transatlantic commentariat’s favorite political put-down. It’s also historically illiterate.
Despite Everything, We Shouldn’t Give up Hope That We Can Change This Country
Everything is awful right now, and the barriers to making things better are steep. But more and more people know that the status quo cannot continue — and more and more people are fighting, even winning, battles on behalf of a better world for everyone.
Reflections on Anti-Communism
Throughout history, anti-communism has aided the forces of tyranny and reaction — not democracy and freedom.
Joe Biden Was Against $2,000 Checks. After Enormous Pressure, He’s Reluctantly Changing His Tune.
Joe Biden is no friend to progressive politics of any kind. But after constant pressure, the president-elect has changed his stance on $2,000 survival checks if Georgia Democrats win.
“Movement Parties” and Democratic Socialists of America
The rapid growth of DSA in recent decades is part of a global phenomenon of voters and activists from the Left and Right who distrust the political establishment and traditional parties, and have formed what scholar Fabian Holt calls “movement parties.”
Lifestyle Environmentalism Will Never Win Over Workers
And those are exactly the people we need to save the planet.
Trumpism Is a Small Business Owner’s Revolt
The MAGA movement changed its strategy after January 6, attempting to seize control of the Republican Party from the bottom up. Finish What We Started follows the Right’s long march through America’s political institutions.
The VA Needs More Funding, Not More Privatization
Joe Biden touted himself as friend of veterans while on the campaign trail. But now he’s overseeing the continued privatization of the VA and backing nominees that brag about being venture capitalists.
The Birth of the Labour Party Has Many Lessons for Socialists Today
American leftists are constantly wrestling with the question of how to relate to the Democratic Party. The history of the UK Labour Party’s formation through a break with the Liberals a century ago is full of lessons for socialists today.
“Michael Brooks Was My Absolute Political Inspiration”
After putting out a call for his listeners and viewers to share their reflections on our comrade and friend Michael Brooks after his shocking and untimely death this week, we were flooded with emails. Here are a few of them.
We Need Single Payer for Our Entire Energy System
We already know that we desperately need single payer for health care. But the recent failures of California’s PG&E show how we need a single-payer system for our energy grid, too — to stop the reckless, dangerous behavior of private companies getting rich off what should be a public good, and to fight climate change.
AOC and the Squad’s List of Left-Wing Accomplishments Is Quite Long
As with any elected official, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Squad should be criticized when needed. But left-wing vitriol is unwarranted: it ignores the Squad’s many progressive accomplishments and their legislation’s aid to activist campaigns.
Pablo Iglesias Thinks There Is an Alternative
Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias talks to Jacobin about the Catalan elections, the future of Spain’s left, and the fight for state power.
US Elected Officials Keep Explicitly Supporting Genocide
Rep. Andy Ogles’s comment that “we should kill them all” in Gaza has drawn little outrage, to say nothing of public censure like what Rep. Rashida Tlaib has faced. That’s because openly calling for genocide of Palestinians has become normalized in America.
Glenn Greenwald Is Innocent
The Bolsonaro government’s attack on Glenn Greenwald is an attack on free speech and democracy. We should unequivocally stand by his side.
From Pawns to Players
How Amalgamated Bank went from a tool for garment workers to a tool of finance capital.
Working People Aren’t Going Quietly
Locomotive manufacturing workers in Erie, Pennsylvania, recently walked off the job against concessions and two-tier wages. The president of UE Local 506 explains what's at stake.
Haiti’s Permanent Resistance
Haiti's latest crisis is just another example of the pernicious effects of US imperialism in the country.