Jacobin

The latest Statistics Canada data shed light on rising economic inequality in Canada as the federal election gets underway. Extreme inequality is fueled both by the superrich at the very top and growing divides in...

Duncan Foley The commodity law of exchange expresses the abstract conditions in which an economy of independent producers who own or produce their own means of production would self-organize through monetary market exchange. The key...

Last night’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election, which saw the candidate backed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk lose to his liberal, Democratic-backed opponent, has swiftly become the political topic of the week. For...

Nonprofit hospital chains are buying up billions of dollars’ worth of real estate around the country, milking them for income while using their charity status to avoid paying property taxes that fund schools, emergency departments,...

The Democratic Party is hemorrhaging support among the working-class voters who once formed the bedrock of its electoral support. Some analysts argue that parties of the Left and center left should embrace this shift and...

After nearly a year and a half in which Palestinians in Gaza have endured mass destruction and collective destitution, they are making themselves heard. In recent days, thousands have participated in widespread protests in the...

Ira Wells You’re quite right that book banning and censorship have been around for centuries, really since the origins of literacy, and certainly since the printing press. Historically, books were often banned because they were...

When the Palestinian-Israeli coproduction No Other Land won the Academy Award for best documentary feature film in early March, jubilation was palpable. It brought to global attention yet again Israel’s crimes as occupier and violator...

Looking back at the films of Cuban director Tomás “Titón” Gutiérrez Alea almost thirty years after his death, the claim can be made that he occupies a unique position for a deeply political filmmaker in...

Review of My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria by Andrée Blouin (Verso Books, 2025) Andrée Blouin was one of the closest allies of Patrice Lumumba, the charismatic Congolese politician who led his country...

Gender role orthodoxy is back, baby. On Instagram, a tradwife influencer bakes lemon squares in a milkmaid dress beneath the caption, “Making dessert for my husband because somebody has to pay the bills and it’s...

Marine Le Pen leads a party that was founded by Holocaust deniers and former Nazi-collaborators. It speaks of French people of immigrant background as second-class citizens and routinely calls for foreign-born criminals to be expelled...