“Electability” is the public rallying cry of the Stop Bernie campaign. But look a little closer, and the real issue becomes clear: the establishment fears having a democratic socialist in the White House.
The best defenders of even the narrow ideals of liberal democracy are not the elites who glorify them but the masses of people whom they so often distrust.
Our global crisis of democracy is real, but its solution isn't rebuilding political norms. It's rebuilding working-class power.
Across the Global South, the coronavirus crisis has highlighted how IMF “structural adjustment” policies have undermined public health care. But the devastation wrought by the economic shutdown also owes to a longer-term ill: an exploitative global trade regime where the poorest countries finance the rich.
Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán has used the COVID-19 pandemic as a pretext to silence his critics, even as he endorses street mobilizations by the organized far right. But these aren’t just the pathologies of a country with weak democratic traditions — they’re an extreme version of a reactionary turn happening across the West.
In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, a fleeting sense of radical possibility quickly gave way to a wave of cuts and privatization. After COVID-19, get ready for a repeat, as leaders around the world push for austerity again.
Brasil es, junto a los Estados Unidos, el país más afectado por la pandemia del COVID-19. Y la política negacionista de Jair Bolsonaro respecto al virus está dando lugar a un genocidio.
Britain’s Tory government is passing legislation to shield undercover agents from prosecution even for violent crimes. Jeremy Corbyn explains why Labour should be standing up against this attack on civil liberties — and not just abstaining.
If you feel a burning hatred toward our unjust social order, writes China Mieville, don’t run from it. Such hate for a system that immiserates vast swaths of humanity is just and necessary.
In Seattle, a bill advanced by socialist city council member Kshama Sawant has outlawed caste discrimination. She and Cornel West argue in Jacobin that the law is a victory against oppression.
It was supposed to be a new day for free speech on Elon Musk’s Twitter. Instead, the petulant billionaire has actually clamped down on speech.
Hindu nationalists insist that, thousands of years ago, Indians were already equipped with modern knowledge of science and technology, only to be undermined by centuries of foreign invasion.
Nothing could have been more conventional, more boring, and more embarrassing than the way Bill Maher repeatedly and ceaselessly kissed Elon Musk’s ass on his show Real Time.
This year marks the centennial of Mrinal Sen, one of India’s most brilliant Marxist filmmakers. His work combined a formal inventiveness that rivaled that of the French New Wave with an unflinching commitment to attacking the hypocrisies of India’s elite.
The far right across the world is mixing and matching racist, conspiratorial rhetoric with little regard for national origins. Thomas Friedman’s flat Earth is here, but instead of pluralism, it’s prejudice that has gone global.
Spiritual needs are more likely to be satiated if the basics — food, clothing, shelter, and employment — are met first.
British Columbia’s social democrats, the New Democratic Party, have eked out a victory in the face of a right-wing populist surge that signals growing class dealignment. The party needs to win back its historic working-class base.
And until Democrats can find a way to win back some large chunk of working-class voters, Donald Trump’s successors will be favored in the next presidential election too.
As India and Pakistan escalate tensions following the deadly Pahalgam attack, border communities in Kashmir face renewed shelling, economic fallout, and deepening fear. Our reporters bring dispatches from villages where civilians remain on edge.
India's military blockade of Kashmir is breathtaking in its brutality and violence. We can't let them silence Kashmir's dreams for freedom and justice.