Jacobin

“It’s been a very productive week,” said EU official Ignacio García Bercero in July 2013, after the first round of negotiations between the United States and the European Union over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment...

Earlier this month, Andrew G. Biggs, Arthur J. Gonzalez, and Betty A. Rosa, three members of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB), returned to their posts after a federal judge ruled that President...

Ofer Cassif First of all, the banner that my friend Ayman Odeh and I held was calling for the recognition of Palestine. There was nothing else — no “genocide,” nothing. We didn’t talk, we didn’t...

What does it look like when the Right attempts to articulate its own version of a “pro-worker” program? That is the question driving the American Compass think tank. Founded during the last year of Donald...

Volkswagen has dug in its heels in first contract negotiations at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where workers won a landslide victory in last year’s union drive. “We’re still waiting for the company to...

Interview by David Broder In the years before World War I, Jean Jaurès was one of the leaders of the international workers’ movement — and he was assassinated on July 31, 1914, because of his...

Last November, Americans voted for a president who said he would put “America First.” They’re getting “Argentina First” instead. Earlier this week, the Donald Trump administration announced it was doubling its planned bailout of Argentina,...

Jeremy Kimbrell was fired from his job at an Alabama Mercedes-Benz factory after playing a leading role in the UAW’s failed effort to unionize the plant in 2024. Jacobin spoke to him about his experience...

As displaced Palestinians return to a leveled Gaza amid the Trump administration’s precarious Israel-Hamas “ceasefire,” senators quietly worked through a government shutdown to deliver $914 billion in 2026 military spending. The budget fulfills a number of expensive surveillance and weapons...

I met the “poorest president in the world” in late 2023. I had seen him before, at an event in Washington, DC, ten years earlier, but at that time, he was surrounded by wild throngs...

Silicon Valley’s military start-ups are closing in on a massive Pentagon payday after spending years pushing sensational, unverified claims of foreign threats. These start-ups, which manufacture cutting-edge lethal and surveillance technology, are eyeing the billions...

From this moment, we call every worker, every citizen, every democratic and solidarity organization to block everything: production, logistics, transport, school, services as a sign of protest against the war crimes committed by Israel and...