The Rank and File’s Paper of Record
The history of Labor Notes shows that labor's strength — and socialists' relevance — depend on a militant and independent rank and file.
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What Pat Robertson Teaches Us
Once marginal and reviled, evangelical Christians became a vital political bloc in the 1980s thanks to resolute organizing.
Labor’s Legitimacy Crisis Under Trump
Unions are under unprecedented attack under Trump. But labor can rebuild itself — if it chooses to.
Tulsi Gabbard Is Not Your Friend
Tulsi Gabbard is hailed as a progressive champion. But her views on Islam and support for far-right leaders suggest otherwise.
Nobody Cares About the Discourse
It’s we who represent the many. And the Democrat intelligentsia who represents the powerful few.
Don’t Just Nationalize AI. Democratize It.
Public ownership of AI is no guarantee of democracy. We need democratic public ownership to prevent elites from maintaining control of the technology.
The Democratic Deficit
The problem of the day isn't too much democracy. It's the accumulation of power by elites.
What Happened in New York
Four points on last week's New York Democratic primary.
“We Work, We Sweat, Put $15 on Our Check!”
After years of Democratic prevaricating, the House has passed a $15 minimum wage bill. It’s almost certain to die in the Senate — but it shows how far the Fight for $15 movement has come.
How to Win Medicare For All
The Medicare-for-All movement needs a goal that will help broaden its base and inspire the next big push. A national march could do just that.
Graham Platner Could Be the Bellwether of a New US Populism
Graham Platner has traversed a long and unlikely road to become the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Maine. Can he beat longtime GOP incumbent Susan Collins and live up to the promise of his firebrand populist campaign?
Blueprint for a Political Revolution
If we’re going to change the United States, socialists will have to win the working class. And we urgently need a strategy and an organization to do just that.
How Kshama Sawant Defeated Amazon
Amazon went all out to defeat Seattle’s socialist city council member Kshama Sawant in this year’s election — but Sawant emerged victorious. In an interview with Jacobin, she reflects on why it’s so important to pick fights with capitalists, and what every socialist running for office should know.
The Last Socialists
Denmark is famous worldwide for its public services and safety net. Yet as Social Democrats retreat from their traditional values, the radical left is the only remaining force defending welfare state protections.
“Everyone Belongs Here”
For Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialists of America–backed candidate for the New York State Assembly, organizing victims of the foreclosure crisis and supporting threatened immigrants are part of the same fight: the struggle for the right to a home.
Reckoning With the AFL-CIO’s Imperialist History
Over the past century, the US government repeatedly disrupted leftist movements and supported or carried out coups around the world — aided by American labor leaders. A full reckoning with the AFL-CIO’s collaboration with US imperialism can help us forge a truly internationalist, left-wing unionism in the twenty-first century.
Medicare for All Is the One-in-a-Million Shot We Have to Make Happen
There’s nothing realistic about passing Medicare for All — we’re outgunned, outspent, and outmatched. And yet we have no other choice.
Bolivia Is Descending Into a Full-Blown Far-Right Military Dictatorship
The Bolivian military forced President Evo Morales to step down — the classic definition of a coup. Now, the country is caught in a spiral of horrors as the far-right regime of terror consolidates its rule.
What Jacobin Taught Me — And a Generation of Socialists
Jacobin has been publishing for 10 years now. And we still retain the hope that the solution to the world’s ills will come through more popular democracy and freedom, and not less.