Jacobin

Last year, shortly after securing my academic position at King’s College London, I faced a concerted effort by certain Home Office advisers to get me dismissed. They wanted me ousted due to my outspoken opposition...

There have been many strange moments in this presidential election cycle. Hulk Hogan ripped off his shirt at the Republican National Convention (RNC) while screaming about “Trumpomania.” The current president and his immediate predecessor had...

Since February 1, 2021, when the Burmese military seized power in a coup, ending a decade-long period in which they had allowed multiparty democracy limited by the army’s claim of 25 percent of the seats...

On October 27, just twenty days into the war in Gaza, Congresswoman Cori Bush introduced a resolution calling for a cease-fire. In the months since, many have smeared her as an antisemite or a supporter...

The Australian Labor Party (ALP) has launched an extraordinary offensive against the militant construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU). Citing allegations aired on Nine Media’s “Building Bad” investigation linking Victorian...

Since March, I have been following a case at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) involving the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) firing one of its employees for criticizing the way some of the organization’s...

A couple of weeks ago, a Republican friend informed me that Vice President Kamala Harris, now the likely Democratic Party presidential candidate, had taken to quoting Karl Marx. Needless to say, I was both confused...

If at Harvard earlier this year students received their degrees in the colors of Palestine, in Paris this same flag was waved by France Insoumise MPs in parliament. Each set of images remind us of...

This is an extract from Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory by Gillian Rose, edited by James Gordon Finlayson and Robert Lucas Scott, available now from Verso Books. It is often remarked...

On the chilly and rainy afternoon of Thursday, May 1, 1890, a crowd of around fifteen hundred people, mostly workers of German and Italian origin, gathered in a large meeting hall under the watchful eyes...

The Pentagon is in the midst of a massive $2 trillion, multiyear plan to build a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines. A large chunk of that funding will go to major nuclear weapons contractors...

Last month, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a city ordinance that would ban the use of algorithmic pricing software for rental housing. San Francisco’s housing crisis is among the very worst in the...