Jacobin

Nieraj Jain was puzzled by the patient sitting quietly in front of him. The woman, in her sixties, was losing her eyesight; that much was clear. Her vision was blurred, and she was having increasing...

While making his official exit from the White House, Elon Musk has repeatedly griped that he and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had been made the administration’s “whipping boy,” absorbing blame and outrage for...

Salah Hamouri I joined the struggle for Palestinian liberation when I was a teenager. I’ve been wounded by gunshot and was first arrested when I was sixteen. From 2001 until today, things haven’t fundamentally changed...

Seventy years ago in April 1955, twenty-nine delegations representing countries in Africa and Asia convened in the city of Bandung, Indonesia, with the bold assignment of addressing the future of the world. The Asian-African Conference...

In histories of Marxism, Karl Korsch’s name is often linked with that of Georg Lukács. Two Central European intellectuals, from Germany and Hungary, respectively, Korsch and Lukács were both radicalized by the impact of World...

The last remaining Democratic state senator in rural Kentucky just announced she’s switching parties. Robin Webb’s partisan defection leaves the thirty-eight-member Kentucky State Senate with only six Democrats, all in the Lexington and Louisville areas....

In the popular imaginary, Ford River Rouge complex has come to represent an industrial age long gone. Completed in 1928, the Rouge complex comprised ninety-three separate buildings in Dearborn, Michigan, occupying about 1.5 square miles...

To the surprise of commentators both in Poland and abroad, prime minister Donald Tusk’s candidate, the highly educated, internationally respected liberal Rafał Trzaskowski, did not become Poland’s next president. A former member of the European...

The last few years have seen corporate interests and pro-Israel groups regularly team up to beat back what they increasingly see as their common enemy: a grassroots-led socialist and progressive movement rising within the Democratic...

A lot has been written about the IP problem besetting mainstream filmmaking today. IP, or intellectual property, refers to all the preexisting material adapted to film by studios and producers. It’s a way of minimizing...

Socialist arguments that cooperation and collective action represent the basis of a better society are often dismissed by supporters of capitalism. “Human nature,” so the argument goes, is inherently self-seeking. The so-called “free-rider problem” purports...

The last six months have seen mass, grassroots protests in Serbia, in a student-led movement first triggered by the collapse of the canopy at the Novi Sad train station that killed sixteen people. The movement...