The massive walkout at California’s flagship public university system is the largest strike in the US in recent years, and it’s now in its second week. Jacobin spoke with striking grad student workers at UC Riverside and UC Irvine. About 48,000 union workers walked...
Qatar’s World Cup is the culmination of decades of football capitalism — a victory for big corporations and repressive governments, and a tragedy for the fans and workers who make the game. A staff member outside the stadium prior to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022...
Written by Weird Al himself and starring Daniel Radcliffe, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is a biopic parody that mocks the prestige form at every turn. It may very well save you from the worst interludes of family togetherness this weekend. Daniel Radcliffe as "Weird...
In other countries, workers and unions have been walking off the job to demand higher wages to keep up with the cost of living. But in the US, where unions are weak and strikes are rare, the cost-of-living issue has been ceded to the Right. Members of the communist...
From the United States to Bangladesh, from Germany to South Africa, Amazon will face coordinated strikes and protests today demanding that the company raises wages above inflation for all its workers and stops its union busting. Jeff Bezos speaking at a press...
Part-time faculty at the New School and Parsons School of Design in New York City went on strike last week. Jacobin spoke with striking workers about their demands for job security and wage increases to keep up with the cost of living. Part-time faculty are on strike...
We’ve seen this movie before, and there’s every reason to believe it’s going to have the same ending: the GOP base rallying around the “antiestablishment” Donald Trump. Former president Donald Trump arrives to speak at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on...
At a 2021 study day devoted to her work at the National Library of France, an audience member in the packed auditorium asked Annie Ernaux — the author of over a dozen mainly autobiographical books — what had made her write her radically frank account of a consuming...
Victoria’s election rules encourage minor parties to make deals trading voters’ preferences. It’s an undemocratic system that means progressives could find their votes end up clinching seats for far-right candidates. Fiona Patten of the Reason Party speaks to the...
It’s an incredibly difficult time to be a public school teacher. Collective action can help teachers realize that their problems are caused by systemic issues, not individual failings, and that the solutions require acting together. Nierika Nims, an English teacher at...
Historians have often depicted late 19th-century American business elites as agents of progress at a time of rapid economic and social change. Through their work organizing groups like the Ku Klux Klan, many of them could also be called “terrorists.” An undated...
The UN is being urged to adopt a misleading, partisan redefinition of antisemitism that is intended to protect Israel from critical scrutiny. We should oppose this cynical attempt to silence advocacy on behalf of the Palestinians in the name of anti-racism. A...