Jacobin

In mid-June, tens of thousands of predominately young people took to the streets across Kenya. The focus of what commentators have dubbed the Gen Z–led revolt — which has now entered its sixth week and...

On Sunday July 21, workers at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) ratified a new three-year contract, ending a two-week strike fought to protect jobs at Ontario’s publicly owned alcohol seller. Their union —...

A coalition of unions representing nearly half of all union members in the United States sent a letter this week urging President Joe Biden to halt all US military aid to Israel. The letter, sent...

This year marks a decade since the creation of Podemos, the party that emerged three years after the 15M movement challenged austerity in the squares of Spain’s major cities. In its early days, anything seemed...

In 2008, I published a book with a straightforward premise: the upcoming era of American politics would be defined by a competition between the Left and Right to harness the working class’s intensifying rage in...

People are desperate to see things move on-screen in this cinematically torpid summer of 2024. Luckily, tornadoes move with a wild, swirling rush, sucking up people and cars and chunks of buildings and everything else...

Review of Left Is Not Woke by Susan Neiman (Polity, 2023) Susan Neiman’s Left Is Not Woke is a wonderful little book. The kind more intellectuals need to write. Neiman’s prose is lively and refreshingly...

Not very long ago, the Canadian New Democratic Party (NDP) was on the doorstep of power in Ottawa. However, over the past decade, their seats have dwindled from 103 to 24. If an election was...

I filed an unfair labor practice charge against the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the New York Knicks, as joint employers, yesterday in the New York City region of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)....

Haggai Matar I have some criticism of the Israeli left, or at least parts of it, myself. Over the years, some of the Left has abandoned the Palestinian question and focused, for instance, on protests...

Review of The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy by Kjell Östberg (Verso Books, 2024) To say that social democracy was the dominant force of Swedish public life during the last century is an...

Republicans claim to have abandoned economic libertarianism and embraced labor. But their platform doesn’t mention unions, and the party’s stalwarts at the RNC suggested a second Trump term would let the good times roll for...