How a Political Killing Took Over French Municipal Elections
The death of French far-right activist Quentin Deranque one month ago has cast a shadow over elections typically focused on local concerns.
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The Impossible Film
In the late 1920s, the great Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein made notes for a dream project: Das Kapital, the film.
Fidel Castro (1926–2016)
Fidel Castro was a towering champion of the oppressed, but we shouldn't ignore the limits of the socialism he helped build.
Before Sweden Was Social-Democratic
Swedish social democracy is often thought of as somehow eternal — the fruit of a solidaristic national culture, or even its historic homogeneity. But Sweden used to be just as unequal as other European countries — and making social democracy “normal” took a fight against what was once considered traditional.
McMansion, USA
A McMansion is like obscenity: you know it when you see it.
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.
Pub Workers of the World, Unite
Workers at Wetherspoons, the British pub chain, were tired of low wages and grueling conditions. So they formed a union, went on strike — and won.
A Most Brilliant Individual
How David Horowitz went from committed radical to reactionary ally of Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions.
Strangers and Enemies
Strangers in Their Own Land elicits sympathy for white workers but fails to identify the class forces responsible for their plight.
No Time for Despair
To defeat Trump, we have to build democratic, multiracial, militant organizations with a foundation in solidarity.
The Same Old GOP
The rank hypocrisy and plutocratic aims of the GOP tax plan are par for the course for the modern Republican Party.
Donald Trump and the Foreign Policy Establishment Want War With Iran
Everything Donald Trump has done since taking office has brought the United States closer to war with Iran. The assassination of Qassem Soleimani pushes the United States even further down that catastrophic path.
Ending the Empathy Gap
Our aim is a society where people are guaranteed the necessities of life not because they’re sympathetic, but because they’re human beings.
Remembering Harry Hay
Harry Hay would have been 105 this month. His life and work as a gay man and a Communist helped lay the foundations of the modern LGBTQ movement.
Post-Work: A Guide for the Perplexed
The basic vision of the post-work left is one of fewer jobs and shorter hours.
Between Vichy and the Republic
The National Front hasn't changed. It just learned how to articulate its longstanding racism and xenophobia with mainstream French republican discourse.
Politics As Psyche
It doesn't matter if Trump is a tyrant in his heart of hearts.
“Prisons Are Microcosms of the Broader Society”
As COVID-19 rips through American prisons, incarcerated people have braved violent repression to demand a humane response to their suffering. In an interview with Jacobin, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Heather Ann Thompson explains the current wave of prisoner protest — and what it could signal about the future of American politics.
The Globalization of the IQ Wars
Far-right ideas about race and intelligence are migrating into the mainstream — and not just in the US.
John Bolton Is Gone. The Threat of War Is Not.
John Bolton has exited the Trump White House. But his bellicose, bloodthirsty worldview is still the basic operating system of the Trump administration — and still threatens to lead us into war.