A Moment of Great Decisions
Despite media misinformation and EU blackmail, anti-austerity forces in Greece remain strong ahead of Sunday's referendum.
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Capital’s Hunger in Abundance
As long as food is produced for profit and not need, people will go hungry.
Tech Workers Are Workers, Too
Tech workers in China and the US recently united in the largest display of tech worker solidarity we’ve ever seen. It’s exactly what we need to prevent a global race to the bottom in tech.
The Bronx Slave Market
Ella Baker, the great socialist and civil rights organizer, was born this day in 1903. Here's her classic 1935 article on economic exploitation and black domestic workers in Great Depression–era New York.
Ours to Master
Our challenge is to see in technology both today's instruments of employer control and the preconditions for a post-scarcity society.
Americans Actually Do Want Medicare for All
The media and the private insurance lobbyists are doing everything they can to twist the truth about public opinion on a public health system. Don't listen: when it's described accurately to them, a majority of Americans want Medicare for All.
The Socialist Case for Remain
It's not clear that a Leave vote would make our tasks on the Left any easier.
A History of Violence
What mainstream accounts of Venezuela’s “peaceful” opposition leave out.
Educate, Agitate, Organize
The Left's engagement with the Sanders campaign is about more than one nomination in a rotten and compromised party.
Democrats Should Fight Trump With Medicare For All
Instead of championing Medicare for All, the Democratic leadership is proposing mild tweaks to Obamacare. That's a disaster — centrist incrementalism is a gift to Trump.
Public Transport Can Be Free
We don’t put coins in street lamps or pay by the minute in public parks. Here’s why we can make subway and bus fares a thing of the past.
The Border Patrol Is the American SS
After decades of nurturing a culture of violent, racist abuse, Customs and Border Protection cannot be seen as just another working-class job. Like Hitler’s SS, we must see CBP not as a place where good people do bad things, but where bad people do bad things.
Don’t Mourn the New Republic
It’s been dead for years.
The National Park Service Goes Rogue
The National Park Service's anti-Trump rebels are mounting a potentially radical defense of the commons against capital.
The Disappearing Strike
Strikes are labor's most powerful weapon. But last year they fell to nearly an all-time low.
After the Climate Protests in Australia
On January 10, tens of thousands took to the streets around Australia to voice their indignation at Scott Morrison’s desultory handling of the bushfires crisis. How to channel this rage into a transformative agenda is the challenge we now face.
Social Democracy’s Last Rounds
When business isn’t intimidated enough to accept constraints on its power, capitalism suffocates democracy.
Awaiting an Alternative
The Lula conviction signals the end of an era for the Brazilian left. But it's profoundly unclear what comes next.
Why Does Nancy Pelosi Want to Subsidize a Brutal For-Profit Health Insurance Industry?
We desperately need a Medicare expansion to provide health care to millions. But instead, Nancy Pelosi’s office is backing a health policy reform that is actually more expensive and will cover less people — all to placate centrist Democrats and insurance executives.