Jacobin

Hidden on the eighth floor of a white-gray building, with a massive “For Rent” sign above the door, is Welcome Collective, one of Montreal’s many clinics dedicated to supporting the thousands of refugee claimants who...

Annemarie Jacir In 1936, the British have already been in Palestine for almost twenty years. There’s already a lot of disgruntlement to begin with. The early years of British control [as a League of Nations...

Sven Beckert The nonmarket and coercion have played an important role at every point in the history of capitalism. I am somewhat skeptical of an interpretation that says: yes, there is a violent early history...

America’s largest labor federation is calling on the global private equity firm Apollo Global Management to investigate worker surveillance, wrongful terminations, and intimidation of immigrant workers at its subsidiaries. The union is also sounding the...

In her high-profile campaign for Michigan’s Democratic Senate nomination, Mallory McMorrow has suddenly gone viral with an explainer video depicting herself as a crusader against surveillance pricing. It’s a solid video boosted by legacy media and online lefty groups, and it...

One of the most appalling aspects of the Gaza genocide — besides its near-unprecedented slaughter of children and other innocents and its near-obliteration from existence of an entire society, unpparalleled in the modern era —...

It was the first genocide of the twentieth century. In January 1904, the Herero people of Southwest Africa (today’s Namibia), who had been under German rule for just twenty years and who were losing control...

David Goldblatt Two very big questions, so let’s separate them one at a time. Claiming that no history of the modern world is complete without football, certainly from the perspective of 2026, seems a kind...

In his inaugural speech on March 12, Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, announced that “new fronts” would be opened in Tehran’s war against the United States and Israel. Khamenei singled out Yemen’s “brave and...

There is a certain kind of man who, upon being told that people are marching in the streets with signs reading “No Kings,” responds by announcing plans to build a glittering glass skyscraper-palace, complete with...

Sarit Michaeli Under the cover of war, the cooperation between the military and Israeli settler militias is deepening the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank. Obviously, the new war with Iran is focusing attention and...

Discussions of inequality in contemporary societies often revolve around a familiar distinction between injustices rooted in status and those rooted in class. On one side stand struggles for recognition, aimed at securing respect and social...