Manolis Glezos was just 19 when he sparked Greece’s anti-Nazi resistance by tearing down the swastika from the Acropolis. This was the beginning of a life dedicated to the cause of the oppressed — in which, as he put it, “No struggle for what you believe in is ever futile.”
Today in Poland, remembering Poles’ complicity in the Holocaust is subject to punishment.
The widespread jubilation over Oscar López Rivera’s release shows that anticolonial struggle still resonates in Puerto Rico.
Over the last four hundred years, black workers have played a vital role in shaping the US’s political economy. In order to understand America, we have to understand the struggles of the black working class.
The coronavirus crisis will lead to health insurance premium increases by up to 40 percent next year. We can’t afford that. Instead of seeing premiums skyrocket or bailing out private health companies, we need to seize this moment to abolish private insurance and create a single, national insurance plan.
The government runs a publicly funded spy training program for corporate America. It’s called the CIA.
The Trump campaign's bluster can't hide the fact that modern conservatism has lost confidence and direction.
Trump warned the nation about the rise of socialism last night. He's right to be afraid. Working people shouldn't be.
Sara Nelson, the flight attendants union leader whose strike threat helped end the government shutdown, speaks to Jacobin. “There are no labor rights without the right to strike.”
Examining the roots of the United Auto Workers’ defeat at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tenn., plant.
New York’s jails have become a focus of COVID-19, with 103 inmates and 80 staff testing positive already. One Rikers Island detainee told Jacobin about the outbreak in the prison — and the inhumanity of trapping people in a hotbed of infection.
This fall's prison strikes are a model of how to both survive and challenge an authoritarian, racist order.
Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, has donated $100 million to food banks during the current crisis, but he won’t even pay his own workers sick pay. Instead of charity, we need rights we can rely on — and as Unite leader Len McCluskey argues, the best way to win them is to organize with our coworkers.
The Saudi-led, US-backed war in Yemen has produced a humanitarian hellscape. And there's no end in sight.
NYU's Abu Dhabi campus puts a liberal gloss on labor abuse and political repression in the UAE.
Michael Bloomberg likes to present himself as a self-made tycoon. In reality, he’s a creature of Merrill Lynch, the now-defunct investment company that bet big on subprime lending and lost.
Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party are carrying out an audacious campaign to arrest left activists and silence dissent in India. The country is on a path toward fascism.
There's no evidence that anticommunism is driving opposition to Bernie Sanders. But that doesn't stop liberal media narratives.
For thirteen years, Israel has kept two million Palestinians in Gaza chained inside the world’s largest open-air prison camp. Now the global COVID-19 pandemic is bearing down on the occupied enclave. What will happen if thousands of desperate civilians try to escape?
If the US is in the throes of a constitutional crisis, it's one oddly devoid of social substance.