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.
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The Disappearing Strike
Strikes are labor's most powerful weapon. But last year they fell to nearly an all-time low.
Don’t Mourn the New Republic
It’s been dead for years.
What’s Old for US Labor Is New Again
We’re in the midst of a twenty-first-century Gilded Age. To end it, we can turn to some of the radical policies designed to democratize the world of work, empower a multiracial working class, and reel in the worst excesses of robber barons nearly a century ago.
What Comes After Oxi?
Five possible scenarios after today's referendum in Greece.
A Challenge to Cuomo
“My name is Brian Jones, and I am seeking the Green Party’s nomination for Lieutenant Governor of the state of New York.”
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.
What Is a Jacob Rees-Mogg?
Behind the façade of the bumbling upper-class twit, Britain’s right-wing tribune is playing a canny long game. His goal: injecting far-right ideas into the mainstream.
The Real Parallel Between Hitler and Trump
Trump rose to financial and political power thanks to the systemic rot of the country's political economy.
Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Finance Medicare for All Is a Disaster
Elizabeth Warren bills herself as the candidate with policy chops. But her Medicare for All financing plan is an unworkable mess.
Revisiting Bus Stigma
Every day, the neoliberal consensus delivers another iteration of the split between public and private that euphemizes its ongoing project of class segregation. It’s no secret that the split extends to public transportation as well.
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.
Eurobonds Won’t Prevent Another Wave of Austerity
German and Dutch leaders’ harsh rejection of economic aid for Italy has shown the hollowness of EU solidarity. Even proposed Eurobonds would merely kick the crisis down the road — failing to challenge structural imbalances that systematically hurt the Eurozone’s Southern periphery.
The Medicare for All Moment Is Here, Brought to You by Bernie Sanders
Medicare for All had its big moment in last night’s debate, with several candidates clamoring to show their support. Yet just three years ago, the Beltway consensus was that it would “never, ever” happen. We have Bernie Sanders to thank for that.
Educate, Agitate, Organize
The Left's engagement with the Sanders campaign is about more than one nomination in a rotten and compromised party.
No, Poor People Don’t Like Fox News
Polling shows that poor people have no real news preference among MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN. That’s because cable news, just like mainstream politics as a whole, hasn’t offered them an alternative for decades.
The People’s Scientist
Richard Levins was a profound thinker who devoted his life to an emancipatory vision of science.
The Greek Lesson
With the Syriza experience fresh in mind, Slovenia's left is drafting a plan for eurozone exit.
Rewriting the Holocaust
Netanyahu’s attempt to shift the burden of Nazi atrocities to Palestinians is nothing new.
Corona: The Inequality Virus
The coronavirus pandemic affects everyone, but it doesn’t affect everyone equally. Working-class neighborhoods have it much harder than wealthy enclaves — and that’s unconscionable.