Jeff Goodwin Marxists did develop this term, but let me begin by saying that a lot of ink has been wasted in an effort to define this phrase. None of the great Black Marxists from...
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Colin Smalley Tonight we’ve got an event at Busboys and Poets in DC, where we’re inviting as many federal union workers as we can to join us. We’re going to have some political representatives speaking,...
As the Trump administration dismantles key consumer protection agencies, the Senate Republican now tasked with overseeing these financial regulators has received millions from banking and financial interests, defended their right to charge “junk fees,” and...
Rapper billy woods is a leading figure in contemporary underground hip-hop. He spoke to Jacobin about the inspiration for his music and his left-wing politics. A still from the music video for billy woods and...
US president Donald Trump’s proposal to annex the Gaza Strip and transfer its two million Palestinian inhabitants to Egypt and Jordan has provoked a predictable outcry. Virtually all Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia, oppose...
Last week, Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), introduced a nonbinding motion in the Bundestag to tighten the country’s immigration procedures. It called for an extension of police powers to...
Review of On Xi Jinping: How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World by Kevin Rudd (Oxford University Press, 2024) US president Donald Trump’s cautious approach to China in the first weeks of...
Four thousand workers at a North Carolina Amazon warehouse are voting from February 10 to 15 on whether to unionize with Carolina Amazonians United for Solidarity & Empowerment (CAUSE). RDU1, in the town of Garner,...
Vivek Chibber There is this view out there that the United States has always tried to ram free trade down the throats of the Global South, and it’s absolutely not true. It’s an interesting empirical...
When Keir Starmer appointed Peter Mandelson as Britain’s new ambassador to Washington, there were reports that it might prove an unpopular move with the new administration. Mandelson rushed to curry favor with Donald Trump and...
It’s prime-time Friday night one week before Valentine’s Day and outside of a packed bar in Downtown Manhattan, two fire trucks are flanking the door. The building, thankfully, is not on fire: the bar is...
The current leadership crisis inside the Democratic Party has left many despairing the future of organized politics. Politically captive to landlords and developer groups locally, to employer associations and their financiers nationally, the Democratic Party...
