Jacobin

This article first appeared in the print issue of the German-language Jacobin. Austerity is omnipresent. Increases in interest rates, fresh privatizations, ever more flexible labor contracts, cuts to health care and public education, reduced capital...

Democratic politics at the start of this century revolved around opposition to a Republican president’s claim to the king-like power of unilaterally entering wars, including with Iran. A little more than two decades later, it’s...

Review of The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian by Neha Dixit (Juggernaut, 2024) Neha Dixit’s book The Many Lives of Syeda X: The Story of an Unknown Indian is...

Interview by Luca DeColaJesse Gwilliam Now entering his third year in office, Colombia’s first left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, recently called the world’s attention to the country in the face of what he described as “the...

The leader of the dominant Scottish National Party (SNP) for two decades, Scotland’s first minister for seven years, and leader of the campaign for independence in 2014, Alex Salmond was the distinguished political figure of...

David Montgomery (1927-2011) was one of the great historians of the US labor movement. His discipline-redefining work examined the complexities of American-working class life and culture and emphasized the importance of the “militant minority” of...

“We have eight months to save our republic,” so warned Elizabeth Cheney, noted renegade Republican. Noteworthy indeed! Cheney is the loyal daughter of perhaps the least likely vice president in American history to be singled...

As Hurricane Milton barreled toward Florida last week, Billy Cox eyed the sky, talked to his neighbors, and decided to stay put. He figured his home in Sarasota was on high ground, on a former...

A critic once told Henri Matisse that if he met one of his models on the street he would “run away in terror.” To which Matisse said, “I do not create a woman; I make...

“We are going to be Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work.” — Jeff Bezos, April 2021 At the end of March 2021, a unionization drive in Bessemer, Alabama, by the Retail Workers (RWDSU)...

Scurvy, a disease often associated with eighteenth-century seafarers, is making a resurgence in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Medical research has identified a clear culprit: growing economic inequality. Scurvy results from a...

Two recent rulings by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in California and in Georgia have affirmed that Amazon must bargain with package drivers who are legally employed by subcontracted delivery service partners (DSPs). In...