Jacobin

On January 6, after two years of getting consistently walloped in the polls, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau finally swallowed his pride and announced his resignation. In addition to resigning, Trudeau shut down Parliament until...

While we appreciate that our book about the Canadian Auto Workers, Shifting Gears, is generating discussion and debate in labor movement circles, we cannot let Jim Stanford and Fred Wilson’s review of the book go...

An estimated 600 Amazon workers went on a short strike or participated in pickets from December 19 to Christmas Eve across eight warehouse locations, from Queens to San Francisco. The coordinated mobilization was an opening...

When capital is in trouble, governments have no difficulty finding billions and trillions of dollars at a moment’s notice to prop up faltering firms. Such bailout programs soon sink below the waterline and become the...

There’s lots happening in Canada’s union movement: new organizing, favorable legal reforms, big wage gains (5 percent per year since 2022), and a historic wave of strikes. In this context, it’s surprising Jacobin would feature...

When Americans today think of the Constitution, many of us think of certain cherished freedoms we hold dear: freedom of speech, religion, and the press. Protection from unreasonable search and seizure, as well as cruel...

Nearly fifty years on from its publication, Irving Howe’s 1976 World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made remains relevant. Those who pick...

Rachel Kushner I have often thought there was something more classical in the simplicity of having a single novel narrator rather than an ensemble. But with all three of my prior novels, I was dealing...

2024 is over, but not before hitting a historic high for the number of people dying at Spain’s borders. According to data from the NGO Caminando Fronteras, at least 10,457 people died or disappeared trying...

You catch a glimpse of a figure in the mirror across the hall, but when you double back to check, no one is there. Specters linger in empty spaces, creating a dour atmosphere — like...

Guido Alfani Indeed, particularly from the Middle Ages it became clear that the rich were often viewed negatively and seen as sinners. Theologians at the time reread the bible and emphasized some of the most...

Samuel McIlhagga There’s a theory that people overlay on top of these political phenomena and have been for a while now. The idea was found in [the fourteenth-century Arab philosopher] Ibn Khaldun and his Muqaddimah...