Since 2020, undergraduate student workers at Kenyon College have been trying to unionize. We spoke with workers about what they say are the college’s union-busting tactics and NLRB delays preventing the union election process from moving forward. Over two hundred...
Brazilian president Lula da Silva knows the dangers of the far right all too well, and during his visit to the US last week he laid out exactly how to defeat such reactionaries: not by striving for a false unity but by confronting the foes of democracy head-on. US...
The Peruvian thinker José Carlos Mariátegui recognized the need to adapt Marxism for Latin American conditions instead of merely copying Europe. José Carlos Mariátegui photographed in 1928. (Wikimedia Commons) José Carlos Mariátegui was one of the most creative and...
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène. His films — dazzling portraits of Senegalese and French society — represent some of the most brilliant attempts to think about the limits and possibilities of political...
Workers with TCGPlayer, a trading card game marketplace owned by eBay, filed for a union election in late January. Employees have accused TCGPlayer of illegal union busting since, including unlawful surveillance and captive audience meetings. The headquarters of...
George Orwell was a self-professed socialist. The Right’s misreadings of his books like Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four have less to do with his actual work than with its anti-egalitarian agenda. George Orwell, photographed in 1940. (Ullstein Bild / Getty Images)...
During tonight’s Super Bowl, ads funded by pillars of conservative Christianity will promote a compassionate Jesus aligned with young people’s left-wing values. They’re compelling — but those values can’t be found in conservative churches. Jalen Hurts of the...
The war in Ethiopia has largely been ignored by the outside world, and information has been hard to come by. But what we know about the conflict is horrific: at least 500,000 civilians have been killed, and 5 million have been displaced. The remains of a house that...
Last week, graduate workers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore voted to form a union — with 97 percent voting in favor. Jacobin spoke to worker-organizers about how they got there and what the victory means for Hopkins graduate students. Graduate student workers...
The global economy is “efficient” alright: it efficiently funnels wealth to the top while leaving most of humanity behind. Prominent figures in the world of finance and economics, including Christine Lagarde, Gary D. Cohn, Ray Dalio, and Lawrence Summers, on a panel...
The Edwardians have always haunted the liberal imagination. In a classic book of 1935, George Dangerfield argued that Edward VII’s reign ushered in The Strange Death of Liberal England. In the years just before World War I, the propertied men who ran the United...
The recent train derailment in Ohio shows the need for more stringent safety rules for train brakes, especially for trains carrying hazardous materials. Transportation regulators are instead bending to the interests of rail industry lobbyists. Secretary of...