Democracy Against Neoliberalism
Matteo Renzi’s constitutional reform was politically illegitimate in method and antidemocratic in content. We should celebrate its rejection.
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The Last Symphony
Today's elite lacks the patience and culture for classical music.
Megan Rapinoe Deserves Equal Pay — And So Do All Women
The US victory in the Women’s World Cup highlighted pay discrimination against women in sports. But the problem persists throughout the economy — especially in jobs without unions.
Tiffany Cabán, a Socialist in the District Attorney’s Office
Socialists keep winning elections. The latest: Tiffany Cabán, who won the Queens, New York, district attorney race last night. She will soon have the opportunity to radically overhaul the criminal justice system by ending cash bail, halting prosecution of crimes of poverty, decriminalizing sex work, and more.
Losing Barcelona
Ada Colau’s defeat in Barcelona was the low point of a disastrous election for the Catalan left. After a decade of powerful challenges to neoliberalism, the old parties are reasserting their dominance.
Neoliberalism in the Rose Garden
Croatia's SDP is a depressing case study of neoliberalized social democracy.
One, Two, Many Rosa Luxemburgs
On the 100th anniversary of her murder, Rosa Luxemburg’s incredible life provides us with a model — not necessarily of what to do, but of how to do it.
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012)
Marc Mulholland on the death of the twentieth century’s greatest historian.
What Corbyn Already Won
Don’t let them make you forget it — once you move beyond Corbyn’s personal polling, the electorate consistently likes his policies.
In Defense of Die Linke
Die Linke’s Sahra Wagenknecht is wrong about refugees, borders, and police. But don’t give up on the party just yet.
The Republican Crack-Up
Trump is only a symptom — the seeds of the GOP's decline were sown long ago.
“The Police Know Guerrilla Warfare”
The violent state of US policing cannot be understood apart from the country’s Cold War crusade. During those decades, cops at home and military personnel abroad exchanged techniques and tactics to mete out repression and thwart leftist insurgencies.
The False Friends of Palestine
Last month's deal between Turkey and Israel will do little to help Palestinians in Gaza.
More Island Than Frontier
A look back at Barbados’s brutal history and hopeful future.
“Blood Money” and Mass Membership
Why is the NRA so powerful? Hint: it's not just because it has boatloads of money.
The New Taylorism
Managers have been trying to control workers for well over a century. Amazon’s new employee-tracking wristbands are just the latest innovation.
Transit Workers Against Amazon?
New York’s transit workers have enormous leverage over Amazon. But to use it, they will have to break with Andrew Cuomo.
Strength in Division
Die Linke MEP Fabio De Masi on why Germany's fragmented electorate will return Angela Merkel to office this Sunday.
Nigeria’s #EndSARS Protests Aren’t Just Opposing Police Brutality — They’re Opposing Neoliberalism
The #EndSARS movement has convulsed Nigeria for weeks, demanding an end to police brutality. But the protesters have something else in their crosshairs: the unequal, austerity-ridden status quo and the political class that defends it.
Israel Is an Army With a Country Attached
A new book by an Israeli scholar dissects the extraordinary hold that the country's military — and militaristic ways of thinking — have on Israeli society, and the ideological myths that keep the project afloat.