Neoliberalism is embedded in the European Union’s DNA. But for the continent’s left, there are few good alternatives. European flags fly at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on September 9, 2022. (John Thys / AFP via Getty Images) For decades, European nations...
Hold your applause for luxury brand magnate Bernard Arnault, the billionaire who just surpassed Elon Musk as the richest man in the world. He may not be taunting the Left on social media, but he’s just as much an emblem of grotesque inequality. Bernard Arnault,...
The second season of The White Lotus, HBO’s propulsive satire, had sex on the brain more than anything else. But it never lost sight of the razor-sharp class critique that also animated season one. In a cultural moment where limp “eat the rich” sentiment is lacquered...
The transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. But austerity and precarity have made it impossible for me to give those same experiences to my undergraduate students. Students discussing in class at North Carolina...
After years of uniquely repressive COVID policies, protesters across China are demanding the lifting of restrictions and democratic rights. But this eruption is the latest manifestation of conflict that has been roiling China for the past three decades. People in...
The Democratic Party has sold out and ignored workers over and over in recent years — so much so that despite Republicans’ steadfast commitment to the rich, they’ve also made significant inroads in winning over working-class voters. Sens. J. D. Vance (R-OH) and Josh...
The historic strike by student workers in the University of California system just entered its fifth week. Jacobin spoke with striking workers about the state of the strike and how union members are feeling at this contentious and pivotal moment. Academic workers and...
Leftists shouldn’t counterpose working-class voters on the one hand and college-educated voters on the other. Our strategy can combine a working-class economic program with a progressive approach to social and cultural questions. Supporters cheer during an election...
Catholic radical Louis J. Twomey’s labor institute at Loyola University New Orleans trained a generation of workers for class struggle. A new union drive among the university’s food service workers draws on that legacy of the best of Catholic trade unionism. Loyola...
Netflix’s new Addams Family show puts Wednesday’s teenaged emotional life front and center — and suffers for it. Wednesday Adams (Jenna Ortega) and her parents (Luis Guzmán and Catherine Zeta-Jones) in Netflix's new series. (MGM Worldwide / Netflix, 2022) There’s a...
Employers took billions from the Canadian government in wage support funds, and many of them continued to pay CEOs millions and issue dividends. Yet the government is now looking for payback from workers, not bosses. Canadian corporations took government money and ran...
Banning private nonessential helicopters would be a political and environmental masterstroke: curbing the wasteful narcissism of the rich, while improving life for everyone else. The helicopter ban is a blueprint for how the Left should think about pleasure. The rich...