The Gig Economy Fantasy
Stories about a new age of precarity are overblown. Workers have had to deal with economic insecurity since the dawn of capitalism.
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Bill de Blasio Is a Progressive Sham
Bill de Blasio is welcoming Amazon to New York City with open arms — proving that his progressive reputation was always a sham.
What Is the Left?
Solidarity is about what you do, not who you are.
Never Let a Pandemic Go to Waste
Mexican elites have done everything in their power to discredit and undercut President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador since he first took power. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, they’re ramping up their attacks.
Workers in the New Turkey
Already a country hostile to workers, Turkey has now effectively banned the strike.
Understanding the Vietnam War Machine
A look at the radical Vietnam-era research collective that exposed US companies profiteering off the war.
“The Election Is Being Stolen”
In the face of state repression and blatant fraud, Hondurans are demanding their right to a democratic election.
Class Rules Everything Around Me
The socialist emphasis on the centrality of class isn't about ignoring racial inequalities, but about crafting a politics capable of ending them.
Australia Needs a Green New Deal
Australia is a climate wrecker on a global scale. With a government long beholden to mining interests, calls for climate justice fall on deaf ears. But plans for a Green New Deal are not just necessary — they’re achievable.
Now Our Senate Overlords Are Making Money off Our Deaths
With the appalling Senate scandal over coronavirus insider trading, it is no longer possible to deny it: we are governed by a caste of the unimaginably rich who don’t care if we live or die.
You Can’t Trust Capitalists
Some CEOs are endorsing Medicare for All. For socialists, that could be a trap.
Bernie Is the Best Chance We Have on Climate
Electing Bernie Sanders president wouldn’t be enough to fight climate change. But his class-struggle politics give us the best chance we have to take on the fossil fuel companies.
Why Michael Harrington Matters
At a time when America and the world were moving rightward, Michael Harrington kept the socialist flame burning.
Bad and Bourgeois
The super-rich talk to one another about a rising tide lifting all boats, all the while arming their yachts ahead of potential crisis.
Everything You Wanted to Ask About Sects . . . But Were Afraid to Know
We joined the New Communist Movement because we were serious about changing the world. It taught us much about how to organize — and how sectarianism ruins everything.
Marilyn Young (1937–2017)
Militarism runs deep in the United States, but historian Marilyn Young never gave up believing that it could be overcome.
Bloodless Liberals
A concern for human life, not international law, should drive opposition to the US “targeted killing” program.
The Arab Spring Lives on in Algeria
Algeria is in the throes of a revolutionary moment. But having overthrown dictator Abdelaziz Bouteflika last spring, the movement must now find a way to return the class issue to the center of politics or risk watching the revolutionary moment slip away.
Breaking Bratton
The left hopes to push a de Blasio administration, but his police commissioner may not budge.