By the 1930s, there had been many efforts at organizing along industrial rather than craft lines, but they had all failed to produce anything of permanence. It was only when the Committee for Ind...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/cio-organize-podcast-hillman-lewis/
In the Turkish local elections on March 31, 2024, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) suffered a historic defeat after over twenty years of uninterrupted dominance. Sinc...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/turkey-elections-erdogan-economy-chp/
A remarkable wave of militancy surged across the US working class in 2023. In schools and universities, health care institutions and Hollywood, in the hospitality industry and local government, a...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/us-labor-strikes-political-movement-power/
Here’s a sad little secret about the current political moment: almost no one who talks about the “rule of law” actually cares about it. As with so many things in today’s political discour...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/biden-gaza-violation-international-law/
Some people hate their bosses and some people love them. Perhaps your boss is a petty tyrant who inspires loathing beyond comprehension. Or maybe your boss is a kindhearted family friend who hire...
With Donald Trump now having secured the Republican nomination, Democrats and the dwindling number of “never-Trump” Republicans are once again rolling out the type of apocalyptic rhetoric abo...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/liberals-fascism-rhetoric-democrats-election/
Since the 1966 BBC television play Cathy Come Home triggered changes in England’s homeless laws, Ken Loach, the son of an electrician, has made films about ordinary, salt-of-the-earth character...
Over the last six months, Israel has repeatedly massacred Palestinians in Gaza, resulting in the deaths of well over thirty thousand Palestinians, some 70 percent of whom are women and children. ...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/israel-gaza-war-crimes-genocide-idf/
Research universities, many of them public, have joined forces with pharmaceutical companies and Wall Street firms to fight new government efforts to curtail out-of-control drug prices, saying th...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/ucla-profit-drug-price-big-pharma/
A three-day Palestine conference in Berlin last weekend promised a show of solidarity with Gazans — and an act of defiance against the pro-Israel groupthink that dominates German media. But jus...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/yanis-varoufakis-germany-palestine-conference/
When FBI agents asked New York City mayor Eric Adams’s security detail to step aside so they could enter the mayor’s SUV and confiscate his two cell phones and iPad in November 2023, the fede...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/eric-adams-scandals-lies-bad-policies/
Long a minor force in national politics, the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) is today making its name not just as a radical force, but an electorally growing one. One major breakthrough came in...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/austria-communist-kpo-name-history/
In states across the country, lawmakers face a daunting budget question: Who should pay to deal with the climate mess created by the fossil fuel industry — taxpayers or the industry itself? In ...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/kathy-hochul-climate-change-superfund-act-ny-budget/
Over the last ten years, governmental power and command over material resources have further extended Hindutva’s ideological appeal and its organizational implantation in Indian society. In thi...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/narendra-modi-india-bjp-hindutva/
The 2021 demonstrations and national strike in Colombia, called to protest unpopular tax increases and health care reforms proposed by then president Iván Duque and to demand an end to police vi...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/gustavo-petro-police-reform-esmad/
In Heinrich Böll’s 1974 novel The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, adapted as a film a year later by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta, a young woman’s life is destroyed by the tab...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/germany-anti-palestinian-anti-communism/
With election insanity ramping up, a war in Eastern Europe, a genocide in the Middle East, and the very real possibility of another dumb US war in the region, you’d be forgiven for completely m...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/fisa-vote-spy-powers-democrats-surveillance/
Summer, 2002. Flags and bunting billow as the UK marks Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee. The Three Lions put in a better than expected performance at the World Cup, but in true English fashi...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/george-michael-iraq-antiwar-protest/
The Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement around Donald Trump has proven far more successful at capturing both party institutions and mainstream support than both its Tea Party predecessor and...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/trumpism-maga-small-business-owner/
Love your schoolfellows, who will be your fellow workmen in life. Love learning, which is the food of the mind; be as grateful to your teacher as to your parents. Make every day holy by good and ...