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/
The year 1945 was a breakthrough for Europe’s Communists. Paradoxically, the Soviet role in liberating the continent from German fascism meant that the Communists were lifted to power in Easter...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/rossana-rossanda-fought-for-the-world-revolution/
On Friday night, workers at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, unionized. The victory was decisive: 2,628 to 985, meaning 73 percent of ballots were in favor of unionizing with the U...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/chattanooga-vw-uaw-unionization/
As Hurricane Ida approached New Orleans on a sticky August morning in 2021, Janet Tobias listened to the news, trying to decide if she should evacuate. While she packed, family members called to ...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/insurance-natural-disasters-louisiana-regulation/
Democrats are losing the working class — and if the trend continues, it’ll reshape American politics for generations. Simply, there’s no sustainable path to victory in national elections wi...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/democratic-party-working-class-campaigning/
In today’s Russian prisons, a sign of a prosperous and materially well-off cell is the presence of a television set, usually provided together with a refrigerator. For me, the television is les...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/boris-kagarlitsky-multipolarity-social-change/
Swedish Social Democracy occupies a special place in the political history of the twentieth century. The Swedish model has long stood as a successful model between the communist planned economy a...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/sweden-welfare-state-class-struggle/
“They ravaged the coal mines and robbed the coal miners.” Looking back a century later, we can still envision James Bryson McLachlan in action, boldly advocating in crowded halls, championing...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/j-b-mclachlan-canada-coal-miners-unions/