Two University of California union organizers argue the keys to their union pulling off the largest strike of 2022 were simple: an emphasis on majority participation, democratic decision-making, and building a representative structure across the UC system.
In July, the European Union announced a deal with Tunisia to police migration. The deal allowed the EU to outsource the dirty work of repressing migrants — but it’s done nothing to hide the mounting numbers of desperate people dying in the Mediterranean.
Britain’s Conservative government has scrapped policies to reduce carbon emissions while the Labour opposition is also rolling back its own climate commitments. Trade unions are stepping into the political vacuum to demand a working-class ecological agenda.
The diverse mosaic of European socialism engaged both reformists and revolutionaries, often driven by not just intellect but also profound religious conviction. Together, these elements shaped the democratic socialist tradition.
The 2003 invasion of Iraq has been swept to the margins of collective memory. We must refuse to forget it — and seek to understand what led to it, who benefited, who suffered, and how it transformed the world.
Colombia’s leftist president, Gustavo Petro, has plainly declared the war on drugs a bloody failure.
The Congress of Industrial Organizations is often understood to the be the innovative, solidarity-based alternative to the American Federation Labor, its immediate predecessor. But the CIO had limits too — and the AFL had more to offer than it gets credit for.
Criminal defense lawyer Raphaël Kempf has repeatedly been counsel for defendants in French terrorism trials. He writes for Jacobin about how anti-terrorism cases from France to Israel have undermined the bases of due process.
Following a proud centrist tradition, Kamala Harris’s campaign promised to build an “opportunity economy” that would grant success to the deserving. The meritocratic pitch was emblematic of Democrats’ long march away from working-class voters.
Yesterday Donald Trump confirmed that he’s considering privatizing the US Postal Service. That would be a big step in the direction of a libertarian dystopia.
The TikTok ban is about US tech hegemony, not national security or protecting Americans’ data, which homegrown social media companies make a business of collecting and selling.
Throughout the entire history of left-wing and working-class organizing in the United States, the participation in and building of institutions of political education has been key.
The economist Alice Amsden’s work unmasked the dirty secret underlying capitalist development: it relied on states breaking all the rules of the free market. But her work also showed that industrialization required corporate discipline, not welfare.
Months after the fires, Los Angeles is beginning to rebuild, but current proposals don’t address the city’s long-standing housing issues. LA should emulate Singapore, which took a devastating fire as a cue to revolutionize its housing market.
The slap fight between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has highlighted the absurdity of keeping so much of our space program and satellite internet infrastructure in the hands of a single oligarch.
Why the modern financial sector is better at extracting rents than funding the future.
Friday’s general strike in Italy was the biggest pro-Palestinian mobilization in any Western country yet. It expressed moral indignation but also resulted from years of movement building.
Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for an additional 2% tax on incomes over $1 million has provoked gloomy prophecies of elite exodus. Yet a similar policy Massachusetts passed three years ago has not caused the rich to flee and has generated significant revenue.
Seizing control of Chinese semiconductor maker Nexperia was a bold move for the Dutch government. It did so under US pressure, only to instantly backtrack as soon as the Trump administration changed its position.
Cuba has been living in the shadow of US threats and blackmail ever since the revolution of 1959. But Donald Trump’s nakedly imperialist power grab in the Americas represents one of the most serious dangers its people have faced in all that time.