Building From the Ruins
The Left needs a revived labor movement, and a revived labor movement needs the Left.
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Will Joe Biden Debate Marianne Williamson?
Marianne Williamson is running against Joe Biden. It would benefit the entire country if he had to defend his record on issues both foreign and domestic.
Billionaire Garage Bands
Under capitalism, New York Knicks owner James Dolan can make bad music. Under socialism, we can all make bad music.
White-Collar Media
For most of the news media, the life and struggles of the majority class just aren’t newsworthy.
Indian Communists Are Leading the Fight Against Communalism
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) is a key force fighting against Hindu nationalism and for social justice. Whatever its flaws, it deserves our solidarity.
Soviet Space Opera
How the Soviet imaginations put us on the moon.
Private Equity Is Getting Into the Airplane Repair Business
Private equity firms are increasingly gobbling up the companies that fix planes for commercial airlines, preying on an industry with already weakened oversight and further stoking the fears of aviation safety advocates.
The Liberty Swindle
The choice between Donald Trump and Gary Johnson is a choice between austerity with an angry face and austerity with a vacant one.
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.
Horror Show
In the first season of Stranger Things, all possible futures are permeated by the Demogorgon of capital. What new terrors will season two bring?
The Left Can Win in Portugal
Today, Portugal votes on whether to reelect a government influenced by the radical left — or else turn back toward the failed austerity policies of the neoliberal center.
Why the US Backs Israel
A new US military package will shower billions of dollars on Israel. But not because it supports democracy.
Do-It-Yourself Class Struggle
One lesson from the West Virginia teachers’ strike is clear: nobody is coming to save us. We’ll have to do it ourselves.
Remembering the Battle of Wood Green
Forty-two years ago today, antifascists beat back a violent, far-right mob that had descended on a diverse neighborhood of North London. Among the antifascist organizers was a young Labour councillor named Jeremy Corbyn.
A Politics of Solidarity
Solidarity between Muslim and Latino communities is crucial to building the kind of movement that can defeat Trump.
Chicago Educators Are Poised to Strike
The Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 73 are on the verge of a strike. Their demands are focused on improving conditions in classrooms — and they’re willing to walk off the job to make it happen.
Work It
Simply saying we should improve the quality and reduce the duration of work doesn’t allow us to ask whether that work needs to exist at all.
Tech Giants Are Using This Crisis to Colonize the Welfare System
In recent years, firms like Google and Facebook have used the Global South as a test bed for new and unregulated forms of data collection. Faced with coronavirus, the same mechanisms are being rolled out across the world — with for-profit data collection becoming increasingly central to states’ management of their welfare systems.
Fanfare Without the Fans
The luxury suites in modern stadiums are reminders that capitalist society values elite consumption over public enjoyment.
We Should Use the Coronavirus Pandemic to Fight Mass Incarceration
Coronavirus is colliding with American mass incarceration, making clear that warehousing human beings en masse is an often deadly decision. We should use this crisis to push for decarceration.