Jacobin

Thank you to the elected officials, labor and movement leaders here with us tonight. And thank you to New York’s Attorney General Tish James. For years, you have fought the good fight for New Yorkers,...

Errol Schweizer I’m pretty skeptical because e-commerce in grocery has not been the big disruptor that a lot of people thought it would be. It’s still a minority share of all grocery purchases. It spiked...

The activist and writer Cory Doctorow spoke to Jacobin about the steady decline of the “enshittified” internet and what we can do to save it. There is a pattern of platform decay, but it is...

What’s going on with the used car market? To answer this question, we first need to know that it’s about more than secondhand motors. Tricolor Holdings, a large subprime auto lender and used car dealer,...

On May 16, 2022, the Ukrainian artist Bohdan Ziza poured blue and yellow paint — the colors of his country’s flag — onto a municipal administration building in his hometown, Yevpatoria, in Crimea. Ziza posted...

The dream shall never die. But Alex Salmond did, suddenly, one year ago today. I was in a hotel room in Seattle when a text came through from a friend in Glasgow: “Salmond dead.” He’d...

Much contemporary left thought focuses on what is wrong with capitalism. Is capitalism bad because of its unjust distributive outcomes? Or is it bad because workers are dominated, subjected to arbitrary power? Or does the...

Progressives cannot afford to ignore the political consequences of working-class dealignment from the Democratic Party. While the magnitude of this shift varies depending on how the working class is defined, the underlying trajectory is consistent...

This article is excerpted from No Neutrals There: US Labor, Zionism, and the Struggle for Palestine, out this month from Haymarket Books. On October 16, 2023, nine days into Israel’s total war on the two...

In the wake of World War II, the United States crowned itself leader of the Western world through persuasion and coercion. Massive transfers of US aid helped stave off the prospect of Communist governments in...

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the only federal agency charged with enforcing private-sector workers’ rights to organize and bargain collectively, is facing a constitutional crisis. On August 19, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals...

In a landmark case with national implications, Democratic Governor Tim Walz’s regulators have greenlit a private equity giant’s acquisition of one of the Midwest’s largest power companies. Critics argue that the precedent-setting case opens the...