Socialist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has accomplished much in just a few months. But one major thing is missing from his tenure thus far: activating mass participation of working-class New Yorkers in the fight for his ambitious agenda.
Since 2024, a growing rift has emerged in the Democratic Party over whether to better coordinate with billionaire-backed political networks to match Republicans. Now this clash between populists and party elites is no longer quiet.
For nearly 20 years, the Pennsylvania legislature funneled over $2.5 billion into private schools by letting wealthy donors such as Trump megadonor Jeffrey Yass fund tuition scholarships and receive tax credits covering 90 percent of their contributions.
After the failed Arab revolutions of the 2010s, Egypt’s elite set out to prevent future resistance. But the violent counterrevolution pushed by Abdel el-Sisi did more than restore the old regime — it consolidated a new form of state terror.
The Ramones’ legendary self-titled debut celebrates its 50th anniversary this month. More than the blueprint for later political punk, the record spoke for those the system had already forgotten.
What happens when a DSA politician takes charge of the largest city in the United States? Zohran Mamdani’s early record is filled with successes, but also evidence of the contradictions between socialist politics and governing the capitalist state.
A new influence network of PACs, rich donors, and consultants is taking advantage of increasingly threadbare campaign finance law to pour millions into Democratic campaigns, aiming to elect leaders committed to returning the party to the “moderate” middle.
Working-class voters may be having second thoughts about MAGA, but they’re still abandoning the Democratic Party. Democrats’ reliance on college-educated suburbanites is arithmetically insufficient and politically unsustainable.
Peter Thiel has gone from reclusive billionaire to high-profile political overlord. Hundreds of emails show that that journey was encouraged and facilitated by the late billionaire who considered him a “great friend”: Jeffrey Epstein.
Jair Bolsonaro’s far-right rule was a dark time for social movements in Brazil. Since Lula’s return to power, housing activists have had a renewed role not just in the streets but in setting government policy.
At the top of the fossil fuel industry’s legislative priorities are sweeping protections against liability for the climate disasters they knew burning fossil fuels would cause. Republicans in Congress are doing their best to help out.
Although Iraq’s Communist Party has lost much of the support it enjoyed at its peak, it still has a real presence on the Iraqi political scene. Its general secretary Ra’id Fahmi tells Jacobin about the need to challenge Iraq’s sectarian power structure.