In New York City, 20,000 nurses are negotiating contracts with the city’s private sector hospitals. The hospitals are using federal Medicaid cuts as an argument for austerity. But nurses say the richer hospitals, and the state government, can fill the gap. More than...
In an interview with Jacobin, the political philosopher Philippe Van Parijs discusses the challenges of achieving global justice today, from winning an emancipatory basic income to accommodating mass migration to rich countries. High rates of immigration do not make...
As contract negotiations with the company stall, unionized Starbucks workers at dozens of stores are preparing for a potential strike. Workers are now holding practice pickets and signing customers up to boycott the coffee giant in the event of a walkout. Starbucks...
The tech giants behind the AI boom have become too big to fail and are using their position to mount an assault on labor. Under the guise of technological inevitability, companies are using the AI boom to rewrite the social contract. (David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via...
Recent protests against political corruption in the Philippines led to violent clashes at the presidential palace. The country’s rulers shouldn’t be surprised at the reaction after imposing their own forms of violence on its working classes for so long. The Philippine...
It was Thursday, June 8, 2017, and barely a mile away, Big Ben was striking ten o’clock. Everyone gathered in UK Labour’s campaign headquarters in Westminster was watching a single big screen, waiting for the BBC news to announce its general election exit poll. As the...
Over at Capital & Main, Jesse Baum has a report about the successes of “premajority unionism”: What [Dollar General stocker David] Williams needed, he thought, was a better job. He wasn’t looking to unionize his workplace — a tall order in the right-to-work South....
Judith Scheytt joined the Global Sumud Flotilla to break Israel’s siege on Gaza. In her first interview since her release, she told Jacobin about how the mission succeeded in shaming Western governments for their complicity in genocide. Vessels from the Global Sumud...
Hundreds of thousands marched in the “No Kings” protests in New York City this weekend, as millions did elsewhere across the US. Organized labor’s marginal presence at the New York protests was emblematic of its anemic opposition to Trump more generally. The serious,...
As Canadian politicians proclaim their intention to protect national sovereignty, American shareholders are extracting revenues from Canada’s oil and gas industry — and stiffing workers. American ownership of Canadian resource companies doesn’t merely raise concerns...
Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies featured millions of Americans claiming patriotic imagery against authoritarianism and toward progressive ends. That’s a good thing. A large percentage of protesters at the No Kings protests in LA sported red, white, and blue, sloganeered...
Filipinos have been protesting against the theft of public funds for flood defenses by corrupt politicians. The protesters face a political class whose leading figures, President Bongbong Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte, are now bitter enemies. After storms...