Ludlow, Colorado, 1914: eleven thousand mine workers had been on strike for seven months against John D. Rockefeller’s Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, protesting low pay and dangerous conditions. They were overwhelmingly immigrants, from Greece,...
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Every summer, we at Jacobin sit down to ask ourselves, what would you like to read on a warm sandy beach? Our answers to this question have often been at odds with most people’s understanding...
On June 5, a satellite photograph captured around forty aircraft on the tarmac of a US airfield inside the regional headquarters for the US Central Command (CENTCOM), some two hundred miles from Iran. A second...
This is an extract from Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds, now available from Verso Books. “I don’t trust you. You are one of them, right? You all just want to sell me like some...
Emma Tenayuca was still a teenager when she started organizing for equality in her native San Antonio, Texas. Only a few years later, at the age of twenty-one, she led 12,000 pecan shellers — mostly...
This is an extract from Freedom for Capital, Not People: The Mont Pèlerin Society and the Origins of the Neoliberal Monetary Order, now available from Verso Books. Some writers have taken the period since the...
I signed the NDA like everyone else — didn’t think twice at the time. But now it feels like a trap. I’m living with nightmares from the content I saw, but I can’t even talk...
New York City has been reeling from the surprising Democratic primary mayoral victory of Zohran Kwame Mamdani. As I watch the shock and surprise, the skepticism and the hostility, a memory comes to my mind:...
More than six months since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the fate of Syria’s Kurdish population remains uncertain. While new president Ahmed al-Sharaa declared a new interim constitution in March, the great unmentioned question...
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor was a massive, earth-shaking upset. When he announced his campaign last October, insiders scoffed: “Could this pro-Palestinian socialist really be NYC’s next mayor?”...
Review of The Most Dangerous Man in Britain?: The Political Writing by Tony Benn (Verso Books, 2025) When Tony Benn died in 2014, it prompted some of the most condescending obituaries in modern British political history....
Robert Reich It’s a violation of the Constitution. There was no consultation with Congress, no consultation — as far as I can tell — with anybody. Trump is isolated. It’s a dangerous move. There’s no...
