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...
Sixty years ago today, the Indonesian army seized power and began a campaign of mass murder to annihilate the country’s left. Relatives of the victims are still fighting against a culture of amnesia about one of the century’s bloodiest massacres. Seventy-five-year-old...
Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has been feted by establishment media as an ex-radical gone moderate. Yet massacres of civilians by government forces disturb the rosy picture of a return to peace. A massacre in Sweida has strained the credibility of Syria’s...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another deserves all the hype it’s getting. Run, don’t walk, to this thrilling, hilarious, moving, and all too prescient portrait of American radicals on the run from right-wing authoritarians. Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle...
With Eric Adams out of the New York mayoral race and the corrupt Andrew Cuomo his main opponent, Zohran Mamdani has a chance to cast his democratic socialism, his alleged “extremism,” as tied to the creation of a lawful society. Not only is Zohran Mamdani completely...
Most Giving Pledge dollars never reached the public, flowing instead to private foundations and donor-advised funds while billionaires grew richer, bought reputations for generosity, and handed back scraps to the people who made their fortunes. Fifteen years in, rich...
Emmanuel Macron’s governments keep failing because of their unpopular austerity plans. The one move they’ve refused to consider: imposing a wealth tax on the superrich who’ve benefited most from Macron’s agenda. A longtime Emmanuel Macron ally, France's new prime...
In recent years, liberals, the Left, and the Right have all waffled on defending free speech when it doesn’t suit them. But not Jacobin. For 15 years, we have insisted that free speech is a basic democratic principle that must be defended. Free speech is a left-wing...