As a sector plagued by underpayment, sham contracting, and hypercasualization, the fitness industry there has no shortage of issues to mobilize around. It’s common — as fitness instructors ex...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/fitness-workers-union-australia-casualization/
A carbon dioxide pipeline rupture in the small village of Satartia, Mississippi, sent nearly fifty people to the hospital with “zombie”-like conditions in 2020, and now another major leak f...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/oil-co2-pipelines-regulations-leaks/
In Brighton in early April of 1974, ABBA won Eurovision for Sweden. It would be the first of the country’s seven wins to date. Portugal’s entry, “E depois do adeus,” sung by Paulo de Car...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/carnation-revolution-portugal-anniversary-democracy/
In the early 1970s, the African liberation leader Amílcar Cabral entrusted a group of four young filmmakers from Guinea-Bissau with documenting the country’s war for independence against the f...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/amilcar-cabral-documentary-film-revolution/
In 1965, a statue of António de Oliveira Salazar was erected at the heart of Santa Comba Dão. This is a pleasant rural town in central Portugal — and the place where Europe’s longest-ruling...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/portugal-far-right-chega-salazar-nostalgia/
The last revolution in Western Europe began as something more mundane — a military coup. On April 25, 1974, a group of junior officers in the Portuguese military seized power, toppling the Cath...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/portugal-revolution-military-coup-anti-colonialism/
For almost half a century, Portugal was ruled by a right-wing dictatorship. António Salazar became the leader of the so-called Estado Novo in the same year Franklin Roosevelt entered the White H...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/carnation-revolution-fifty-years-european-politics/
Globalization is a form of class war. Yet the Left has today failed to offer a coherent strategy for challenging it. On one level, this is understandable: in the face of a menacing far-right MAGA...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/capital-controls-globalization-left-politics/
To understand the current headline-dominating furor over the protests taking place on college campuses against the war in Gaza, think about the death toll of each. As of the time of writing, more...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/student-protests-antisemitism-war-gaza/
In 1968, Lyndon Johnson was president. He was waging a brutal war in Vietnam that, by the time it ended several years later, would claim the lives of millions of Vietnamese civilians. At Columbia...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/columbia-university-palestine-protests-1968/
I’d just rediscovered how much I enjoy action films with Monkey Man. And then I had to go and ruin it with The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. It’s another one of those Guy Ritchie flicks,...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/guy-ritchie-film-review-ungentlemanly-warfare/
David Leonhardt’s Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream sets out to explain why things seem so much worse in so many ways in the United States today than they were before...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/david-leonhardt-shining-future-review-dealignment/
Zombie laws from the nineteenth century are rising from the crypt. In early April, the Arizona Supreme Court resuscitated a Civil War–era state law that bans nearly all abortions. The seemingly...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/abortion-reproductive-rights-arizona-law/
Something’s happening in this country, something we haven’t seen in a long, long time: the working class is standing up. Forty-eight hours ago, four thousand workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee...
Ladakh may be one of India’s smallest territories in terms of population size, but it is generating a political headache for Narendra Modi as his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seeks a third term...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/ladakh-protest-movement-bjp-autonomy/
South Korea’s unpopular conservative president, Yoon Suk-yeol, and his People Power Party (PPP) suffered a well-deserved defeat on April 10 when voters went to the polls to elect a new National...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/south-korea-election-corruption-left/
For nearly three decades, the Department of Defense has used taxpayer money to send elite military officers to work for some of the Pentagon’s top private contractors. The public-private arrang...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/pentagon-fellows-program-sdef-defense-contractors/
On Wednesday, April 10, Amazon Flex drivers rallied outside of a delivery station in Woodland Park, New Jersey. Holding a banner reading “CONTRA LOS ABUSOS DE AMAZON,” the workers demanded Am...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/amazon-flex-contractors-working-conditions/
Today, in one of the most expensive elections in Pennsylvania State House history — in large part due to donations to the incumbent from billionaire and charter school advocate Jeffrey Yass —...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/philadelphia-cass-green-billionaire-donors/
“Help me defeat the Squad,” Republican Steve Louro wrote, announcing a May 16 fundraiser at the home of fellow Republican David Bercow, in Armonk, an upscale suburb in Westchester County, New...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/maga-bowman-democrats-latimer-congress/