Inflation is far from being a boring economic concept — it’s a question of who gets what in society, and how much power workers have versus bosses and shareholders. A man looks at frozen foods for sale at a Dollar Store in Alhambra, California on August 23, 2022....
Jacobin
A Tiny Cut in the Military Budget That Probably Won’t Happen Is Causing Panic in Washington
The bipartisan establishment is having a freak-out over the prospect of a modest cut to the defense budget. It’s not clear it will actually happen — but even if it did, the gargantuan US military budget would still be wasteful and counterproductive. A F/A-18E Super...
Deport Bolsonaro
Jair Bolsonaro is currently in Florida after fleeing Brazil to escape justice for his many crimes. There’s no reason to offer him safe haven — the US should kick him out immediately. The United States is under no legal obligation to shelter former Brazilian president...
After a Decades-Long Fight, Yale Graduate Student Workers Just Won Their Union
Graduate student workers at Yale University have been trying to unionize since the early 1990s; on Tuesday, they finally won a union election. Jacobin spoke with two Yale worker-organizers in the lead-up to the vote. Yale University graduate students gather for an...
Inflation Is About Class Struggle
Inflation is far from being a boring economic concept — it’s a question of who gets what in society, and how much power workers have versus bosses and shareholders. A man looks at frozen foods for sale at a Dollar Store in Alhambra, California on August 23, 2022....
A Tiny Cut in the Military Budget That Probably Won’t Happen Is Causing Panic in Washington
The bipartisan establishment is having a freak-out over the prospect of a modest cut to the defense budget. It’s not clear it will actually happen — but even if it did, the gargantuan US military budget would still be wasteful and counterproductive. A F/A-18E Super...
Deport Bolsonaro
Jair Bolsonaro is currently in Florida after fleeing Brazil to escape justice for his many crimes. There’s no reason to offer him safe haven — the US should kick him out immediately. The United States is under no legal obligation to shelter former Brazilian president...
After a Decades-Long Fight, Yale Graduate Student Workers Just Won Their Union
Graduate student workers at Yale University have been trying to unionize since the early 1990s; on Tuesday, they finally won a union election. Jacobin spoke with two Yale worker-organizers in the lead-up to the vote. Yale University graduate students gather for an...
After a Decades-Long Fight, Yale Graduate Student Workers Just Won Their Union
Graduate student workers at Yale University have been trying to unionize since the early 1990s; on Tuesday, they finally won a union election. Jacobin spoke with two Yale worker-organizers in the lead-up to the vote. Yale University graduate students gather for an...
Train Engineers Just Ousted Their Union President for Supporting the Rail Deal
In the wake of the rail showdown, locomotive engineers have voted to boot their union president. It’s a stunning upset — and one that shows rank-and-file railworkers are still simmering at the contract that was forced on them. A worker watches railcars with cargo...
For Grant Wahl, Soccer Was a Window Into the Best and Worst of Humanity
The day after forty-eight-year-old soccer journalist Grant Wahl collapsed in the press tribune at a World Cup quarterfinal in Qatar and died of an aortic aneurysm, a Los Angeles Times headline compared Wahl’s life to that of the late travel host Anthony Bourdain. The...
How the Supreme Court’s Agenda Is Being Shaped by Right-Wing Billionaire Money
Conservative activist Leonard Leo is spending millions to shape the Supreme Court’s agenda. On his docket: ending affirmative action, rolling back antidiscrimination protections, and giving state legislatures unreviewable oversight of federal elections. Conservative...