Jacobin

In her first major interview since accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination, Kamala Harris said on Friday that her Israel policy will be no different than Joe Biden’s. After noting that Biden’s policy had failed to...

With six Israeli hostages dead, one of them a US citizen, and massive Israeli protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raging in the country, a very public game of finger-pointing has ensued. Asked on Monday...

Viktor Orbán had big ambitions for this June’s elections to the European Parliament. Running on a slogan of “no migration, no gender, no war,” the Hungarian premier called on his supporters to “Occupy Brussels.” Posters...

Germany, 2000s: a country in crisis, internationally known as the “sick man of Europe.” The economy was stagnating, while unemployment was climbing beyond 10 percent. Amid this situation, the government led by a coalition of...

Tens of millions of workers in the United States want a union at their workplace, but do not have one. This unfortunate state of affairs is normally blamed on external obstacles such as our country’s...

For more than ten months, we have witnessed the unimaginable suffering of Palestinians in Gaza. By official estimates, over 40,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel’s incursion into the territory began. Some researchers...

On a midsummer afternoon in June 1918, Eugene Debs stepped into a gazebo nestled under the trees of Nimisilla Park in Canton, Ohio, to deliver the speech that would land him in prison. The Socialist Party leader looked...

Review of Fredric Jameson, Inventions of a Present: The Novel in Its Crisis of Globalization (Verso, 2024) For over five decades, Fredric Jameson has been the leading Marxist literary and cultural critic in the United...

Philosophers, particularly those who have sought to solve the simpler mysteries of creation, have always been greatly perplexed when endeavoring to find any plausible reason for the existence of certain insects and reptiles, which curse...

Labor Day isn’t the most exciting of holidays. It doesn’t quite have the verve or internationalism of May Day and its meaning is overshadowed by important things like superb discounts on flat screen TVs. But Labor Day...

From the 1990s to the mid-2010s, the dominant forces within the Democratic Party helped create, shape, and drive bipartisan neoliberalism in public education. Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Arne Duncan, Michelle Rhee, a variety of billionaires,...

On Tuesday, the AFL-CIO hosted its second annual “State of the Unions” Labor Day event. According to AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler, unions are “on the rise,” “battle-tested,” and “building organizing capacity” like never before. What...