A Victory in Chattanooga
For a hurting labor movement, last week's successful unionization vote in Chattanooga was a small but significant win.
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The Zapatista Candidate
By participating in Mexico's 2018 election, the EZLN can bring its indigenous anticapitalist platform into mainstream politics.
What Makes Scandinavia Different?
What accounts for the Nordic countries' strong welfare states? Hint: it's not white homogeneity.
Grounding Pinochet
For more than four years, Pinochet’s air force was paralyzed by 3,000 Scottish workers who refused to service its planes.
Arm Kyle Lowry
Ultrarich assholes act like kings that can subject workers to whatever petty indignities and abuses they want. That’s why billionaire Warriors minority owner Mark Stevens put his hands on basketball worker Kyle Lowry.
The Gilets Jaunes Have Changed How France Thinks About Strikes
Last winter, yellow-vested protestors blockaded roads and roundabouts across France, building a social revolt outside of classic labor-movement structures. Today, the trade unions are back at the center of the fight against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms. Yet the spontaneity and militancy that drove the gilets jaunes are again at the heart of the struggle.
Can We Just Have Medicare for All Already?
A federal judge’s ruling against Obamacare shows yet again that the only solution is Medicare for All.
Schools Should Serve Humans, Not “The Economy”
Bernie Sanders’s education policies are the most progressive of any 2020 candidate. But his platform must reject the pro-business language of “competitiveness” to truly transform the education system.
An Act of Hate
After yesterday's horrific attack on the LGBT community in Orlando, we must remember there is an alternative to hate and bigotry.
Behind the Five Star Movement
For all its antiestablishment rhetoric, Italy's Five Star Movement is a force for the status quo.
Cuba’s Coronavirus Response Is Putting Other Countries to Shame
Cuba is caricatured by the Right as a totalitarian hellhole. But its response to the coronavirus pandemic — from sending doctors to other countries to pioneering anti-viral treatments to converting factories into mask-making machines — is putting other countries, even rich countries, to shame.
Bread and Roses for All
More and more people are calling themselves democratic socialists. That’s a very good thing if you care about the cause of human freedom.
Who’s to Blame for Amtrak 188?
The deadly Amtrak derailment is the product of a system that doesn't take public transportation seriously.
The Right’s Challenge to Chavismo
The Venezuelan Right appears to be building the kind of mass movement that could reverse the gains of the Bolivarian Revolution.
Leon Trotsky Was My Grandfather
An interview with Leon Trotsky’s grandson, who lived with the famous revolutionary the last year of his life.
What Is Aleppo?
The response to Gary Johnson's gaffe captured all the hubris and faux expertise of 2016.
The “Choice” Bait and Switch
The rhetoric of “choice” in politics isn’t about expanding freedom — it’s about distracting us from demanding justice.
AOC Is Right: She and Joe Biden Should Not Be in the Same Party
In a story released yesterday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she and Joe Biden “would not be in the same party” in a different country. Centrists freaked out. But she’s right — fighters for the working class like AOC and Bernie Sanders aren’t on the same team as defenders of Wall Street and war like Biden.
Labour Is Combatting Cynicism With Hope
While Boris Johnson’s Conservatives rely on a narrative that nothing could possibly get better, the transformative project of Corbynism rebuffs this cynicism — and isn’t afraid to speak in terms of hope.
The Strike Is On
"We’re not going back to work until there’s solid proof that our demands are going to be met," a teacher unionist on strike in West Virginia tells Jacobin.