The Poverty of Pakistani Ideology
A conversation with communist rock star Taimur Rahman on class politics in Pakistan today.
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What Happens If We Win?
For the Left, winning local office is one thing — actually governing is another.
Developers Want to Destroy Chicago. We Won’t Let Them.
We’re in a nationwide crisis of affordable housing. In Chicago, momentum is growing to fight back.
Which Way Out of the Venezuelan Crisis?
As Venezuelans go to the polls this Sunday, the country faces a choice between deepening revolution and an elite-enforced rollback.
Freedom Gained and Lost
In 1861, coastal South Carolina witnessed an experiment in what Southern slave emancipation could have looked like: communities of freedmen owning their land and passing it on to their heirs. Those island communities have survived to this day — but real estate development is now threatening to destroy them.
The Nigerian Activist Whose Death Shamed Shell
Twenty-four years ago today, environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed by the Nigerian state. His death brought international attention to the rapacious behavior of oil companies like Shell — and their complicity in the most violent forms of repression.
Stay Classy
Class is not the universal solvent that does away with all identity.
Religious Freedom Laws Are a Trojan Horse for Homophobia
After the victory for marriage equality in Australia, the Right is back on the offensive with a new swathe of “religious freedom” legislation that promises to turn back the clock on LGBT rights.
Capitalism Caused the COVID-19 Crisis
We cannot let capitalists absolve themselves of blame for the COVID-19 crisis. Their choices have turned an emergency into a disaster.
Blood Banking
Tissue and organ transfers are assumed to go from the healthy to the sick — not the poor to the wealthy.
Less Work, More Power
The struggle against overwork can unite workers and help rebuild the labor movement.
Like Voting Rights? Thank a Socialist
The ruling class never wanted to give workers the right to vote. But early socialists fought them tooth and nail to expand the franchise.
Beyond Reform vs. Rupture
Greece still has alternatives. What mix of compromise and confrontation could yield something better than more austerity?
Bernie Returns Home to Brooklyn
Bernie Sanders is back in Brooklyn for his first 2020 campaign rally, but the New York socialist — who grew up in a working-class community and radical Jewish political tradition — never really left.
Bernie Should Oppose Nonprofit Charter Schools, Too
By calling for a ban on for-profit charter schools, Bernie Sanders has gone further than any other candidate to confront the privatization of our schools. But we can’t fully defend public schools if we let nonprofit charters off the hook.
The Man Behind the Mask
At one time, tear gas was only deployed on the battlefield, not against civilian protesters. Then Amos Fries came along.
The New Red-Baiting
Establishment pundits like Bret Stephens are trying to revive the Cold War, using the sloppiest of anti-left arguments.
Beyond the Waterfront
Few workers hold as much potential power as dockworkers. Studying the history of those workers, both in the San Francisco Bay Area and Durban, South Africa, shows how such workers can continue building that power into the twenty-first century.
When Neoliberalism Hijacked Human Rights
When the architects of neoliberalism cobbled together their new economic order at Mont Pelerin, they included a moral vision with it. Co-opting the once revolutionary concepts of universal human rights, neoliberals refashioned the idea of freedom by tying it fundamentally to the free market, and turning it into a weapon to be used against anticolonial projects all over the world.
Unions on Ice
Hockey players have a brief, but fierce, history of demanding fair pay and equal rights from management.