An Uncommon Historian
Eric Hobsbawm wasn’t just a historian of the twentieth-century communist movement: he was part of it.
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Did the 1970s New Politics Movement Fail to Transform the Democratic Party?
The question of what to do about the Democrats is a perpetual quandary for leftists. In the 1970s, the New Politics movement tried to move the party in a more progressive direction. Perhaps the movement deserves more credit than many socialists have given it.
From Zuma to Ramaphosa
Jacob Zuma won't be remembered as a liberation hero, but as a corrupt leader who broke the South African left.
“In the World of Film, We’ve Edited out All Rebellion”
Boots Riley on communism, Sorry to Bother You, and what kind of political action the present moment demands.
An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Liberals Who Love Him
The reparations demand survives as a parlor debate — it cannot address the real needs and interests of black workers.
Independence on Hold
The general election marked a setback for the Scottish National Party. Is the independence dream dead?
We Need to Win Our People Back
French workers’ top electoral choice isn’t Marine Le Pen, but abstention. To mobilize their support, the Left needs to look beyond the workplace alone — and answer a deeper mood of alienation.
Podemos Can Change How Spain Is Governed
The new government coalition between the PSOE and Podemos is a historic opportunity for the Spanish left. After years of rising nationalist tensions, Podemos can turn the agenda back to the fight against austerity.
The War on Syria
Foreign intervention has only worsened the situation in Syria.
“I Am Skeptical That Capitalism Has a Future”
Cory Doctorow on the surveillance state, Edward Snowden, and the core values of a utopian society.
Lorraine Hansberry Was an Unapologetic Radical
Lorraine Hansberry is best known for her classic play A Raisin in the Sun. But she was also a committed radical who insisted that black workers must be at the heart of the struggle for liberation.
“Michael Brooks Was My Absolute Political Inspiration”
After putting out a call for his listeners and viewers to share their reflections on our comrade and friend Michael Brooks after his shocking and untimely death this week, we were flooded with emails. Here are a few of them.
In France, Too, Billionaire Tycoons Are Silencing Their Critics
In France, right-wingers love to pose as defenders of free speech. Yet the takeover of media by a cast of billionaire pro-Trump tycoons means that just a handful of individuals have a veto over huge swaths of the press.
Trailer Park Residents Are Forming Cooperatives
Across the country, residents of mobile homes are organizing to buy and cooperatively run their communities, with government help, to protect themselves from landlords known for jacking up rents and neglecting infrastructure.
For Rudolf Hilferding, Socialism Was About Freedom
Austrian socialist Rudolf Hilferding, author of the magisterial Finance Capitalism, used the tools of Marxism to develop a rigorous understanding of the changing capitalist economy while making the case for a socialism that put freedom and democracy at the center of the project.
The Anatomy of MSNBC
More than any other media outlet, MSNBC embodies the politics and sensibility of Trump-era liberalism. But the network that many call the “liberal Fox News” wasn’t always liberal.
The Adaptable Sinn Féin
Over its long history, Sinn Féin has shown itself to be a left-nationalist party that is more nationalist than left.
Justice Deferred
DACA only exists because young activists fought fearlessly for it. Its end would be a blow to the movement for immigration justice.
The Left Is Stepping Out of the Neoliberal Dark Age
Vivek Chibber describes how four decades of neoliberalism have distorted the radical left, but also how the Left is finally starting to rebuild a truly socialist politics — and what it will take to advance further.
Oakland Educators Are Striking to Fix Austerity-Starved Public Schools
On Thursday morning, nearly 3,000 public school teachers and support staff in Oakland, California, went on strike. Educators say they’re striking to solve an austerity-driven crisis of understaffing and retention.