In Carbon We Trust
In Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a global currency backed by carbon removal turns speculation into salvation.
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Sharing the Big Apple
Union co-ops were a source of both affordable housing and displacement for New York’s workers.
The Politics of Life and Death
Rising life expectancy has long been seen as proof of capitalism’s success. But it was socialists who insisted on investment in health and well-being.
Europe’s Breadbasket
As war rages in Ukraine, farmers have abandoned their work mid-season to take up arms against Russia. Those who stayed behind are in a race to harvest their crops before stray rockets torch their fields.
Phara Souffrant Forrest: Why I Support NYC’s Striking Nurses
Socialist New York State Assembly member and nurse Phara Souffrant Forrest on why New York City nurses are right to be on strike demanding safer staffing levels, a modest pay increase, and new safety measures on the job.
Constitutional Calcification
The process for constitutional amendment is an uphill battle. Since 1789, almost 12,000 amendments have been proposed — but only 27 have passed. It’s been 50 years since one has made its way to the states for ratification.
A Poor Man’s Fight
As the Vietnam War dragged on, soldiers took matters into their own hands.
So You Want to Donate to Jacobin?
Here’s a guide to make sure you’re ready.
Elon’s Slash-and-Burn Operation
DOGE has cut millions of dollars’ worth of grants in every state.
April Showers Bring Workers’ Power
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
How Much is $TRUMP Worth?
The president’s cryptocurrency isn’t doing so hot.
UAW Ballot Results
A left slate won a narrow victory. Here’s how the regional vote mapped out.
Eugene Debs’s Statement to the Court
Before being sent to prison for speaking out against World War I, Eugene Debs delivered a defiant speech to the court that decried the ills of capitalism, held out the democratic promise of socialism, and declared, “While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” We reprint it here in full.
We Should Nationalize Tyson Foods
Meatpackers are colluding with each other to generate superprofits at the expense of everyone else. Nationalizing one of them isn't particularly radical — it's a commonsense policy solution.
Solving Poverty Is Simple
Corporations are making record profits. That’s money we could use to lift millions out of misery.
Eugene Debs: “The Scab Is the Natural Born Foe of Labor”
This Labor Day weekend, we share Eugene Debs’s 1888 broadside against that most hateful of characters: the strikebreaker. The scab “sinks to the level of a loathsome reptile,” Debs writes. “He becomes a walking, breathing stench.”
America the Laggard
By virtually any measure, people in the United States are worse off than those in other rich countries. There’s no disputing the impact of our weak entitlements and paltry labor protections.
ESPN Says It’s Okay to Gamble Now
Our sports entertainment industry has become interlinked with gambling interests.
When the Ruling Class Feared Communism
As we commemorate the many horrors of the Cold War, let’s not forget some of the good things it brought us — above all, a frightened ruling class scared into making concessions.
When the CIO Was Young
The CIO's postwar years were marked by a radicalism that seems shocking today.