How to Revive the Antiwar Movement
The headlong rush toward war with Iran seems to have slowed down. But we shouldn’t be lulled into a false sense of security — we urgently need a mass antiwar movement that isn’t tied to the Democratic Party.
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The Franc Zone, a Tool of French Neocolonialism in Africa
François Mitterrand warned that France would be irrelevant to twenty-first-century history unless it maintained its control of Africa. Its instrument for so doing is the CFA Franc — a colonial currency entrenching French rule more than fifty years after independence.
When Eastern Europe Left the World Behind
Far-right leaders like Viktor Orbán claim to be reversing decades of Westernization. Yet Eastern Europe’s nationalist turn began even before 1989 — as socialist regimes abandoned their pretense of international solidarity.
The Real Christopher Columbus
There was no heroic adventure, only bloodshed. Columbus Day should not be a celebration.
A Dishonest Umpire
Two-state proponents argue that comprehensive peace is only possible with deeper American involvement in the process. They couldn't be more wrong.
Profit On-Demand
The Internet has changed. What was once open and public has become the frontier of modern capitalism.
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.
The Limits of Hindutva
Significant opposition to the Hindu nationalist project in India has recently emerged. But the Indian Left has to go beyond a “progressive” nationalism to build something bigger.
Why the Green New Deal Didn’t Get a Hearing
Labour’s plan for a Green Industrial Revolution promised to put climate crisis at the heart of Britain’s general election. But the need for radical solutions soon dropped off the agenda — allowing the defining issue of our time to be once again ignored.
Locked Out
With roots in the laws of seventeenth and eighteenth-century England, intellectual property protections go back to the beginnings of capitalism itself.
Silent Majority Music
To put it most unkindly, trap music is adult contemporary for the prosumer age.
Coronavirus’s Devastation Has Been Made Far Worse by Years of Democrats’ Neoliberal Policies
Coronavirus isn’t only exposing Donald Trump’s incompetence. The crisis is laying bare the consequences of the neoliberal economic agenda corporate Democrats have been pushing for decades.
Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser Was a Towering Figure Who Left an Ambiguous Legacy
Fifty years after his death, the Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser still casts a long shadow over Arab politics. A symbol of defiance in the age of decolonization, Nasser transformed his country but never gave its people control of the system that ruled them.
Who’s Afraid of Karl Marx?
Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro stokes his base’s fears by warning of the “communist threat” posed by “cultural Marxism.” But if you don’t make a living off exploiting workers, there’s no reason to be afraid of Karl Marx and his friends.
Black Power in White Australia
The movement for Aboriginal self-determination has a rich history, steeped in the internationalism of anti-colonial struggles and black liberation movements throughout the world. We shouldn’t ignore it.
Yes, Colonialism Was a Monstrosity
The German far-right party AfD recently invited a US academic to parliament to defend the country’s colonial past. But all the whitewashing in the world can’t hide the fact that colonialism was a horrendous, often genocidal affair.
Power Play
We need to get down to the work of building a radical civil society.
Eugene D. Genovese (1930–2012)
Gene in his last years is better categorized as a “man of the Right” rather than as a conservative.
The Free Market Isn’t Up to the Coronavirus Challenge
If it’s not profitable for pharmaceutical companies to produce a cure, they won't produce a cure. We cannot win the fight against coronaviruses and future infectious diseases unless we properly fund a public sector that values public health over profit.
Andy Gill (1956–2020)
What does Marxism in music look and sound like? Andy Gill, the guitarist and primary mover behind Gang of Four who died on Saturday, gave us a very good example.