I write as the principal leader of the December 2005 New York City transit strike. Twenty years ago, Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 conducted a once-in-a-generation battle against the oligarchs of New York City...
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It may be hard to recall the mood in the United States immediately after October 7. Major Jewish institutions assumed that there would be a resurgence of global Jewish unity. President Joe Biden and the...
Last June, a tenant organizer named Cea Weaver wrote an article for Jacobin that bluntly opened with the line, “Real estate runs New York.” She noted that “poll after poll” showed that New Yorkers’ top...
Emily Witt I have a lot of thoughts on the idea of self and life writing. I went to grad school for English literature and at one point wrote a paper about memoirs by foreign...
Review of Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy by Julia Ioffe (Ecco Press, 2025) Julia Ioffe left the Soviet Union in 1990 at age seven, when her family immigrated to...
Sworn in as mayor of New York just over one week ago, Zohran Mamdani is wasting no time beginning to govern. In his first week in office, his administration issued twelve executive orders, including two...
Antiestablishment demonstrations across Iran escalated this weekend as reports emerged of large-scale violence by protesters and security services alike. Over half of the country’s thirty-one provinces are convulsed in protests, which first erupted on December...
Iván Cepeda It is the first government that has brought about social change, [although] not all of the changes that were wanted and not free of errors, gaps, mistakes — for example, having had to...
Zohran Mamdani has energized the US Left and offered a potential road map to socialists seeking political power. But most candidates don’t have Mamdani’s unique superstar charisma and most American cities aren’t so favorable to...
On May 1, 2026, one of Margaret Thatcher’s key legacies will be rewritten. “Assured shorthold tenancies,” the default form of tenancy for renters in England, will be abolished as part of the Renters’ Rights Act....
What began with the United States’ attack on Venezuela has now gone global. Not content with the rendition of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, amid a firestorm of destruction in Caracas,...
Organizing as a socialist in the United States in 2025, you’ll find that people don’t hate your ideas. Why would working people reject the appeal of leading better, more comfortable lives? Who doesn’t want more...
