The Year of Resistance, Inc.
Throughout 2017, business leaders wagged their fingers at Trump with one hand while quietly accepting handouts with the other.
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History From Below
Leon Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution remains a singular work of Marxist historiography.
The Roots of the Egyptian Crisis
Egypt’s current crisis highlights the flawed foundations of its post-revolutionary state. But liberal nostalgia for the days of the monarchy is equally misplaced.
Unfinished Business
The Bolivarian Revolution went too far for capitalism but not far enough for socialism.
Against “Buy American”
"Buy American" campaigns have historically done more to intensify xenophobia than improve workers' conditions.
Peace Is Still Possible
The United States cares more about keeping South Korea under its thumb than securing peace with North Korea.
Storming the Stage
This July, Germany will host the twelfth annual G20 summit. Its message of global neoliberal rule will be met by mass protest.
Lula’s Plan B
Lula lost his appeal today. If it turns out he can't run for president again — who will the PT turn to? Jacobin talks to Fernando Haddad, the Workers Party's rumored Plan B.
A History of Sabotaging Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn showed the way for mass radical politics. He only had to fend off attacks from the Right, the press, and his own party to do it.
Trump’s Cuba Rollback
Trump’s stance on Cuba will do untold harm to the Cuban people and only strengthen anti-democratic forces on the island.
Who Built the Panama Canal?
Donald Trump might not know it, but the United States didn't build the Panama Canal. Workers did.
Baghdad in France
Today's reactionaries don't seem to be interested in a new world war, but in a clash between North and South, rich and poor.
Out of Left Field
Major league baseball has a long but little-known history of rebels, reformers, and radicals.
Being Honest About Venezuela
As Nicolás Maduro’s increasingly antidemocratic government battles violent right-wing forces, ordinary Venezuelans are watching the gains of Chavismo slip away.
“Someday This Army Is Going to Leave”
Korean farmers face off against the US military's largest overseas base.
Nobody Cares About the Discourse
It’s we who represent the many. And the Democrat intelligentsia who represents the powerful few.
War With Iran Would Be Even More Disastrous Than Iraq
The hawks in the Trump administration are raring to go to war with Iran. That would be so catastrophic it would make Iraq look quaint by comparison.
Traumas of Dispossession
We're living through another crisis of American family farming. But don't expect a rural revolt any time soon.
“All Humans Are Born Equal”
The early German socialists fought for the persecuted at home and abroad — convinced that the liberation of workers in Germany was linked to the liberation of oppressed peoples around the globe.
Germany’s 28-Hour Workweek
Last month German metal workers won the right to a 28-hour workweek — after going on strike to demand a better work-life balance.