Donald Trump’s profligate spending on America’s domestic militarization, coupled with tax cuts for the rich and continued military adventures abroad, suggest that much in American conservatism today remains similar to what it was under George W. Bush. The $170 billion...
An ICE raid on workers at a Hyundai plant in Georgia has sent shock waves through South Korean politics. It came just as Donald Trump has been trying to strong-arm South Korea’s government into accepting an extortionate trade deal with the US. South Korea is so...
From deftly handling a hostile Donald Trump to securing real economic gains for workers, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum ends her first year in office with a remarkable 80% approval rating. Now the real fight for Mexico’s economic sovereignty begins. For 80...
Even before October 7, 2023, Gazans had been reduced to the role of a surplus population with minimal employment within Israel. Their expulsion from Israel’s capitalist economy helped to lay the groundwork for genocide. Palestinians have been among those turned into...
Vivek Chibber breaks down how the Marxist tradition has theorized class and why, even as the lines between wage-earning workers and the salaried middle class seem to be constantly shifting, class analysis is paramount for the Left’s political organizing. If you’re...
With wealth inequality and billionaire control over American society growing ever more obscene, it’s well past time to implement a maximum wage limit. Linking minimum wages with maximums incentivizes companies to improve conditions for workers at the same time it...
Mass deportations may hurt big business and working people alike. But Donald Trump is betting that the fallout will hit Democrats harder — and cement a lasting right-wing majority. (Illustration by Chantal Jahchan) Sorry, this articles is available to subscriber only....
Colombian president Gustavo Petro lambasted Donald Trump’s human rights abuses and Israel’s genocide at the United Nations last week. The US State Department revoked his visa in response. Donald Trump’s attacks on Gustavo Petro are nothing new. Petro was even a target...
The perpetual advice to Democrats is that moving rightward will solve all their problems. But look where the party is at the moment: already embracing Republican affect and policies, yet still losing. Democratic senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio is backing “the most...
Join us tonight at 7 p.m. ET for the launch of a major new study on working-class politics in the Rust Belt, produced by the Center for Working-Class Politics and Jacobin in collaboration with the Labor Institute, Rutgers University’s Labor Education Action Research...
The band Sylvan Esso has removed its music from Spotify in protest of the company’s exploitative practices. In an exclusive interview with Jacobin, they explain their reasoning — and why the move feels so good even though it’s financially risky. “In our wildest hopes,...
The US enthusiastically supported the 1965 military coup in Indonesia and the mass killings that followed. One key motivation was Washington’s desire to scupper a new international alliance that Indonesia’s leader, Sukarno, was in the process of building. Suharto in...