Pelle Dragsted’s Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy is a book about radical possibilities. Written by a Danish MP of the ecosocialist Enhedslisten (Red-Green Alliance), it makes the case that the next step beyond social democracy is neither...
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Volunteer Witnesses Are Key to Defending Immigrant Rights
Donald Trump is trying to criminalize the practice of volunteers accompanying immigrants to their court proceedings. Why? Because it works to prevent rights violations. The best way for citizens to show up for noncitizens is to literally show up. Volunteers...
Universities Are Selling Themselves Off Piece by Piece
American higher ed has become a mesh of corporate contracts and outsourced services. From dining halls to student records, private vendors now run many institutions’ most basic operations — atomizing workers and undermining the university’s public mission. Once upon a...
It’s Time for Emmanuel Macron’s Administration to End
Every few months, French president Emmanuel Macron appoints a new government, without his prime ministers ever winning a real base of support. The fundamental problem is the president himself and a dogmatic austerity agenda, which most French people reject. President...
Zohran Mamdani Takes Up Bernie Sanders’s Torch
Bernie Sanders clearly sees the future of his movement in Zohran Mamdani, who is now poised to become the next mayor of New York City. In inheriting Sanders’s movement, Mamdani inherits a daunting set of questions and challenges. Zohran Mamdani’s laser focus on the...
Trump’s Military Occupation of Chicago Won’t Bring Safety
Residents of Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods need investment in their well-being, not humvees patrolling them like a military occupation, writes Chicago city council member Rossana Rodriguez. Police take security measures as protesters gather outside the...
Chicago vs. Trump’s Takeover
Chicago is attempting to model resistance to Donald Trump’s looming authoritarian military occupation of its streets. With Donald Trump's recent military ambitions in US cities, Chicago may be a model for municipalities looking to resist federal overreach from his...
Zohran Mamdani: “New York City Is Not for Sale”
At a Brooklyn town hall with Bernie Sanders on Saturday, Zohran Mamdani recounted how Bernie “gave me the language of democratic socialism to describe my politics” and called on supporters to keep organizing after Election Day. We reproduce his speech here. Sen....
Proportional Representation Is the Solution to Gerrymandering
Our current system for elections to the House of Representatives systematically enables gerrymandering and helps trap the Left inside the Democratic Party. We need proportional representation. Gerrymandering is far from just a Texas problem; it reflects a nationwide...
Norway’s Red Party Offers a Working-Class Alternative
Norway’s radical-left party, Rødt, has recruited thousands of members in recent years and looks set to boost its scores in Monday’s election. Seher Aydar MP told Jacobin about how it’s building on discontent with the established parties. (venstresida / Flickr) Norway...
The Politics of the PMC
Vivek Chibber on how we should understand capitalism's middle strata — and why so many professionals are moving toward anti-capitalist politics. Author Barbara Ehrenreich speaks about employment issues and her books Bait and Switch and Nickel and Dimed in Boulder,...
How National Self-Sufficiency Became a Goal of the Right
What looks like Trump-era economic nationalism has deeper roots. German nationalists of the 1800s and fascist leaders of the 1930s imagined power through autarky — national self-sufficiency — with consequences that stretched from tariffs to conquest. Friedrich Ratzel...