Remembering the Chartists
The Chartist movement shows the enormous struggle it's taken to secure democratic rights — and how far we have yet to go.
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France’s Far Right Is Gaining Where the Left Has Crumbled
French workers vote for the far-right Rassemblement National more than for other parties, but more often, they don’t vote at all. Rather than laying down roots like the old workers' parties, Marine Le Pen’s party has exploited the vacuum left by their decline.
An Open Letter to the British Left
A Greek leftist on why British socialists shouldn’t shy away from rejecting the European Union.
The Making and Unmaking of Global Capitalism
The authors of The Making of Global Capitalism respond in the conclusion to our seminar on their book.
New Report: Working-Class Social and Economic Attitudes
A new study from the Center for Working‑Class Politics and Jacobin reveals where working-class voters stand on key issues and how they differ from wealthier Americans. The message is clear: economic populism must be the core of progressive appeals to workers.
The Strike as the Ultimate Structure Test
To build a more confident, fighting, politically educated working class, no task is more pressing right now than building for successful strikes.
Democrats Act Like Elections Are Complicated. They’re Not.
Yet another study confirms what we already know: economic populism is the only way for Democrats to win working-class voters.
George Orwell and the Proles
Though his pessimism about the working class ebbed and flowed throughout his life, George Orwell ultimately saw workers as the only force that could build an egalitarian, socialist society.
When the Workers Were Communists
The once mighty French Communist Party is a shell of its former self. What happened to its mass base?
Bernie Sanders’s Campaign Is Different
A new video from the Bernie Sanders campaign is proof: Sanders has used his bully pulpit to amplify workers’ struggles around the country, in a way no national politician in the United States has done before now.
From Italian Factories to British Pizzerias
Working-class authors often write of alienation from hometown life after going to university and becoming professionals. Alberto Prunetti's autobiographical novel instead tells us what it's like to leave an Italian steel town only to find low-paid kitchen jobs in England.
The Class Politics of Race
In Not So Black and White, Kenan Malik rewrites the history of the idea of race, demonstrating how identity politics is, despite its radical patina, a deeply conservative ideology.
Why Workers Don’t Revolt
The working class in capitalism is not a coherent class but a fragmented one — an amalgam of individuals trying to survive. It’ll take politics to change that.
Which Way to the Barricades?
What was the mass strike and what would a successful one look like today?
Bernie Has Opened the Door for Democratic Socialism
Bernie Sanders has restored the socialist tradition to its rightful place at the heart of national politics for the first time in decades. Now it’s up to us to push it further.
Gentrification’s Ground Zero
In the ten years since Katrina, New Orleans has been remade into a neoliberal playground for young entrepreneurs.
Ray’s a Laugh, 28 Years Later
When Richard Billingham published photos of his poor and alcoholic family, critics asked whether he had betrayed or humanized them. Walter Benn Michaels reflects on the images’ legacy and on working-class photography under neoliberalism 28 years later.
Avocado Toasts for All
The recent tendency to boil class down to consumption habits and taste in food is tiresome and unsound.
What It Means to Be a Marxist
We can only change the world if we understand the actual forces around us. Marxism gives us the tools to do just that.
Class Struggle Postponed
In the Colombian city of Barrancabermeja, a century of violence has disintegrated working-class power.