Post-Work: A Guide for the Perplexed
The basic vision of the post-work left is one of fewer jobs and shorter hours.
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Thanks, Libertarians. But We’ve Got This
Let’s have a debate over the Left and the state. But not on the libertarians’ distorted terms.
Mad Men and the Movement
Mad Men succeeded in showing how social change seeps into otherwise unremarkable lives.
The ABCs of Socialism
Don't study collective action alone.
Spain Against Itself
On the 40th anniversary of Spain's post-dictatorship constitution, the center is wracked by crisis, the far right is on the rise, and tensions over Catalonia continue to rise.
We’re Leveling Up
We’re ramping up our coverage on a host of important issues. Welcome new columnists Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Liza Featherstone.
American Factory Co-Director Julia Reichert on Socialism
A day before she quoted Marx at the Oscars, Jacobin briefly chatted with American Factory co-director Julia Reichert about her democratic socialism and long history on the Left.
Historian Paul Garon Documented the Beauty and Radicalism of the Blues
More so than any other genre, the blues addressed the misery of black American life under capitalism. The work of the late historian Paul Garon made an invaluable contribution to unearthing this tradition’s radical roots.
The Russian Left Is Standing Against Putin’s War on Ukraine
The mass media, both inside Russia and beyond its borders, hasn't much noticed — but young Russian leftists have been at the forefront of opposing Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Legacy of Eleanor Marx
On her birthday, we honor the life of Eleanor Marx.
From the Underground to the Mainstream
Feminists in Argentina have achieved an unprecedented breakthrough on abortion rights.
How the Strike for Equality Relaunched the Struggle for Women’s Liberation in the US
In August 1970, campaigners for women’s liberation mounted a huge demonstration that recharged feminism in the US. Ruthann Miller, the protest coordinator, was a socialist activist. She talks to Jacobin about the march, and the need to combine feminist and socialist politics.
Labor Union Radicals Built the US Feminist Movement
Forget the stereotypes about the “individualism” of 1970s feminism. In fact, labor radicals played a crucial role in founding and organizing the struggles to topple gender hierarchies — and they should serve as an inspiration for labor feminists today.
How Iran’s Theocrats Allied With — and Then Crushed — the Left
Sociologist Chahla Chafiq was a 25-year-old Marxist activist during the 1979 Iranian revolution. Now in exile in France, she looks back on the tensions between socialism, feminism, and anti-imperialism that have roiled Iran’s opposition politics for decades.
Evelyn Trent Was One of America’s Great Revolutionaries
Best remembered as the partner of Indian revolutionary M. N. Roy, Evelyn Trent deserves to be recognized as a major figure in her own right. The Californian activist was a pioneering anti-colonial feminist who helped initiate India’s communist movement.
Emily Is Not the Biopic Emily Brontë Deserves
Emily Brontë is one of the most uniquely brilliant women writers who ever lived, the perfect subject for a feminist biopic. She deserves better than the shallow pop feminism of the new movie Emily.
The Politics of Getting a Life
Work in a capitalist society is a conflicted and contradictory phenomenon.
When the Excluded Organize
The domestic workers who asserted their rights in the 1970s provide a model for organizing workers today.
Resistance Is on the Agenda
Three socialist feminists reflect on the Women's March and what comes next in the movement to resist Trump.
The First Strike
March's Women's Strike was an electric first step towards forging a new feminist movement.