A Radical Defense of the Right to Strike
Why do workers have a right to strike? Because it’s one of the best means they have to resist their oppression.
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A Captive Market
As if locking up mass numbers of people in cages weren’t depraved enough, jails and prisons around the country are now charging prisoners exorbitant fees to read, listen to music, and speak to their family and friends. It’s a gross violation and exploitation of prisoners’ basic rights to enjoy culture and connect with other humans.
A Movement With a Future
The gilets jaunes movement has presented a vision of France beyond Emmanuel Macron's neoliberalism. Anticapitalists have to push it even further.
Medicaid Cuts Could Kill Safety-Net Health Centers
Federally qualified health centers are an essential source of medical care for poor and working-class Americans, especially in rural areas and neighborhoods of color. Medicaid cuts in Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill could shut them down.
“We Do Not Want These Criminals to Rule Us”
Mass protests are nothing new for Iraq. But what’s different about the demonstrations currently rocking the country is that protesters are calling for the overthrow of the entire post-US-invasion political system.
Rent Control’s Momentum
The midterms offered mixed results for affordable housing advocates. But one thing is clear: rent control is back on the agenda.
The Internet’s Invisible Cleanup Crew
A hidden army of tens of thousands of content moderators is at work every day — in often appalling conditions — to make the internet as we know it habitable. We should hold Silicon Valley responsible.
Serve the People
Homelessness isn’t an accident. It’s the result of a brutal economic system and conscious state policy.
Defense Spending: the Endless Frontier
The military sets the agenda for scientific research, so it's still much easier to get funding to develop new bombs than to get the resources to develop new, potentially life-saving antibiotics.
The Slow Collapse of Imperial Republics
Disputes over Trump's election are just the latest episodes in the slow erosion of trust in the legitimacy of American institutions.
We Didn’t Start the Fire
Class conflict isn’t something we choose to engage in. It’s just how capitalism works.
The Alternative to Austerity
There is an alternative to capitulation in Greece. Here is the Left Platform of Syriza's plan.
Denver Teachers Win Steps Forward
Striking Denver teachers reached a tentative contract agreement this morning. Though they did not achieve all of their demands, Denver’s educators have wrested important gains from school privatizers — and shown once again the power of teachers withholding their labor.
Honeymoon for the Brazilian Right
Despite some victories for the socialist left, last weekend’s Brazilian municipal elections saw the continued rise of the Right.
Trump Is in Way Over His Head in Iran
Donald Trump’s war on Iran is barely half a week old, and with each day, it has become a bigger and bigger debacle.
Trump’s SEC Is Moving to Silence Investor Whistleblowers
Under the Trump administration, the SEC has taken a sledgehammer to enforcement against corporate crimes, with cases dropping to record lows — at the same time that corporate lobbying of the federal government has surged to unprecedented levels.
An Unusable Past
Nicolas Grospierre’s photographs of collective farm buildings in Israel and the Baltic states reveal these communities’ utopian dreams — and their uncomfortable colonial underpinnings.
The Data Center Boom Could Trigger Blackouts
The country’s largest electrical grid operator, PJM Interconnection, plans to power new data centers that it knows it doesn’t have the capacity for — prompting an energy watchdog to warn of heightened blackout risks.