New York City socialists have to figure out how to scale up quickly with a potential Zohran Mamdani mayoralty on the horizon. The socialist values underpinning the Mamdani campaign’s narrative and platform will require mass-movement tactics to effectively communicate...
Population decline is not just about human extinction. Before it ends, human civilization will grow increasingly unpleasant — and communal ideals associated with left-wing politics will become increasingly difficult to sustain. The population-decline scenario is one...
Donald Trump’s tariffs amount to a stealth tax on the middle and working classes, wrapped in the language of sovereignty. In practice, it’s upward redistribution and corporate price-gouging, fueling inequality that corrodes stability and erodes democracy. Funneling...
Socialists accept that some degree of inequality may be inevitable in a complex society. But there’s one kind of inequality that’s intolerable: the kind where resources are allocated according to factors that individuals can’t control. Marc Zuckerberg's yacht...
The rise of the far right in France has gone hand in hand with the growth of racist, authoritarian tendencies among self-styled centrists like Emmanuel Macron. The only way to beat back the fascist threat is by confronting those tendencies head-on. Macronism has...
Nearly half of Gen Zers in the UK report being financially insecure, with millennials not far behind at 46 percent. This economic distress and a culture of competitive individualism are driving a mental health crisis among the country’s young people. A quarter of...
Spain’s Vox party typically masks its racism in more palatable rhetoric. But this summer, leading Vox MPs helped incite violence against residents of Maghrebi origin in the Murcia region in Spain. Vox leader Santiago Abascal fanned the flames of neo-Nazi groups...
Something about the United States is broken. Our already mediocre infrastructure is crumbling, the pace of housing construction is glacial, and we’re one of the few advanced countries without high-speed rail. Although Bidenomics — the set of economic policies aiming...
Defying a government back-to-work order, 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants went on strike last week to demand pay for currently uncompensated pre- and post-flight work. After three days, the workers secured a tentative agreement. National president of CUPE Mark...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has been criticized for recent moves to centralize power. But these developments are less about the actions of a single leader and more the result of decades of state weakness following the dissolution of the USSR. Volodymyr...
One year after the Democratic National Convention refused to allow a Palestinian American onstage, it’s clear that the Democrats have paid a steep price in ignoring voters opposed to Israel’s brutal human rights abuses in Gaza, writes Waleed Shahid. Rep. Ilhan Omar,...
Fans of Croatian folk-rock star Marko Perković, nicknamed Thompson, have long greeted his concerts with nationalist chanting and fascist salutes. The problem is, now there are hundreds of thousands of them — including ministers in the current government. For over two...