Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.” But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts. How do the Democratic...
A British court has acquitted the only soldier to face trial over the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry in 1972. The outcome is no vindication of “Soldier F” or of the British establishment, whose long cover-up made a successful prosecution so challenging. Families and...
Over 51,000 teachers are on strike for fair pay and manageable classrooms in Canada’s most right-wing province. With the threat of back-to-work legislation looming, other unions are indicating that they may join the fight. According to the teachers’ union, stagnating...
The issue of Palestine speaks to a range of constituencies that Zohran Mamdani is trying to stitch together into a new coalition — and creates a cleavage with the establishment leaders of the Democratic Party like Andrew Cuomo and Chuck Schumer. Palestine is an issue...
The Italian philosopher Lucio Colletti was one of the outstanding postwar Marxist thinkers. But Colletti’s subsequent drift to the right symbolized a wider shift in Italy’s whole political axis as its once-powerful left-wing movements went into decline. Lucio...
Ironic fascism is a disturbing symptom of the Trumpist right’s mounting ethnonationalism and authoritarianism. When GOP operatives "joke" about loving Hitler and gassing their enemies, the punchline isn't absurdity — it's showing how far they're willing to go. (Alex...
In New York City, 20,000 nurses are negotiating contracts with the city’s private sector hospitals. The hospitals are using federal Medicaid cuts as an argument for austerity. But nurses say the richer hospitals, and the state government, can fill the gap. More than...
In an interview with Jacobin, the political philosopher Philippe Van Parijs discusses the challenges of achieving global justice today, from winning an emancipatory basic income to accommodating mass migration to rich countries. High rates of immigration do not make...
As contract negotiations with the company stall, unionized Starbucks workers at dozens of stores are preparing for a potential strike. Workers are now holding practice pickets and signing customers up to boycott the coffee giant in the event of a walkout. Starbucks...
The tech giants behind the AI boom have become too big to fail and are using their position to mount an assault on labor. Under the guise of technological inevitability, companies are using the AI boom to rewrite the social contract. (David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via...
Recent protests against political corruption in the Philippines led to violent clashes at the presidential palace. The country’s rulers shouldn’t be surprised at the reaction after imposing their own forms of violence on its working classes for so long. The Philippine...
It was Thursday, June 8, 2017, and barely a mile away, Big Ben was striking ten o’clock. Everyone gathered in UK Labour’s campaign headquarters in Westminster was watching a single big screen, waiting for the BBC news to announce its general election exit poll. As the...