Thanks to over a decade of Conservative-imposed austerity, the UK’s public services are stretched to the breaking point. Public sector workers are going on strike to save the country’s public goods from dangerous underfunding. This year’s NHS staff survey found that...
This fall’s Italian elections saw voters punish the incumbent parties of government yet again. But behind the upheaval in the party system is a narrowing of real political choice, as working-class interests struggle to find electoral expression. Matteo Salvini of the...
The cryptocurrency exchange FTX recently collapsed in spectacular fashion. Yet a lawsuit linked to the exchange is currently attempting to force crypto into the retirement market. Crypto peddlers want access to the $6.4 trillion 401(k) market. (Anthony Kwan / Getty...
The new $850 billion military budget, which the House just approved and the Senate will take up soon, is a giveaway to the arms industry. Is it a coincidence that House supporters of the bill got seven times more money from military contractors than opponents? US Army...
With Violent Night, we were promised a deranged, Santa-meets-Die-Hard flick shorn of holiday schmaltz. Instead, the action-comedy just another soppy movie about the Christmas spirit. David Harbour plays an angry drunk Santa Claus in Violent Night. (87North) I was in...
A laudable effort to consolidate tax credits in New York State is hampered by policymakers’ obsession with means testing. View of children as they play on the monkey bars at the PS174 playground at the Rego Park in Queens, New York, New York. (Walter Leporati / Getty...
With Violent Night, we were promised a deranged, Santa-meets-Die-Hard flick shorn of holiday schmaltz. Instead, the action-comedy just another soppy movie about the Christmas spirit. David Harbour plays an angry drunk Santa Claus in Violent Night. (87North) I was in...
A laudable effort to consolidate tax credits in New York State is hampered by policymakers’ obsession with means testing. View of children as they play on the monkey bars at the PS174 playground at the Rego Park in Queens, New York, New York. (Walter Leporati / Getty...
J. Edgar Hoover is notorious for his decades-long campaign to stamp out the Left by surveilling and even killing radicals like Fred Hampton. What is less well known is that liberals played an important role in enabling Hoover’s antidemocratic crusade. J. Edgar Hoover...
In 1845, Friedrich Engels wrote a scathing condemnation of English capitalism, The Condition of the Working Class in England. In it, he accused the bosses of carrying out “social murder” against workers and the poor. Friedrich Engels directing the construction of a...
The Biden administration has not prioritized pushing through a confirmation of a member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, which oversees labor issues for federal workers. The result is that federal unions are far weaker than they should be. Demonstrators hold...
Medical residents and fellows at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx are trying to form a union, citing the need to fight overwork and understaffing that’s endangering patients. Jacobin spoke with unionizing doctors about their organizing drive. A mural honoring...