Between 1915 and 1924, the Queensland Labor Party set about building socialism in Australia’s Sunshine State. It was and remains one of the most ambitious reforming programs in Labor’s history. Queensland premier T. J. Ryan, photographed in 1916. (State Library of...
Some of the world’s largest private security firms are making millions of dollars by aiding ICE with its mass deportations. Now the Trump administration’s record-breaking deportation spending blitz is poised to boost their profits even more. Private security firm G4S...
The US’s six largest health insurers reported massive profits last year, doling out billions on stock buybacks and dividends. That hasn’t stopped them from pushing for sharp hikes to Americans’ insurance premiums. Medical assistant Jezleen Espinoza, right, checks...
For all of Eddington’s loud chaos, writer and director Ari Aster is expressing a fundamentally flat and stale vision of the world. Joaquin Phoenix in Eddington. (A24) Writer-director Ari Aster tends to end his narratives in careening mayhem that finally exhausts...
The history of anti-communist purges in New York’s hotel workers’ union provides a lesson in how socialists can both gain and lose influence within the labor movement. A campaign poster on the street advising voters how to cast their ballots for an election for...
In the last year and a half, thousands of left-wing American Jews have protested Israel’s crimes against Palestinians. They are taking part in a long tradition of anti-Zionist Jewish radicalism in the United States. Socialist representative Meyer London in New York on...
A new study from the Center for Working‑Class Politics and Jacobin reveals where working-class voters stand on the key issues and how their views compare to wealthier Americans. The message is clear: economic populism must be the core of progressive appeals to...
For anyone hoping Kamala Harris’s disastrous 2024 loss would make the Democratic Party drastically change direction, the bad news can be summed up in two words: Project 2029. The New York Times reported earlier this month that Democrats are planning their own version...
After raising the pension age and cutting taxes on the rich, now Emmanuel Macron’s government wants to scrap the Easter Monday and VE Day bank holidays. The plan is sure to face stiff resistance, with French workers unwilling to swallow further austerity. French prime...
Before planners and property developers turned Manhattan into a sterile playground for the wealthy, it was the site of extraordinarily creative art and music scenes. Critic J. Hoberman shows us how New York thrived in the shadow of nuclear war. The former Village...
In France and beyond, centrist governments are invoking "public order" to crack down on left-wing activism. The recent ban on anti-fascist group Jeune Garde follows a wider pattern — including Britain’s move against Palestine Action — of criminalizing dissent....
When British authorities deported Irish rebels to their Australian penal colonies, they also exported a tradition of anti-colonial resistance. Wood engraving by Andrew Garran of the Eureka Stockade in Victoria, Australia, in 1854. (The Print Collector / Getty Images)...