In recent years, top defense contractors — backed by trillions in taxpayer dollars — have prioritized enriching shareholders over expanding production.
As war spending surges, America’s biggest weapons manufacturers could funnel even more to investors.
The war on Iran is a joint effort by segments of the US, Israeli, European, and Arab ruling classes that are committed to global and regional domination — not just the result of Israeli pressure on Donald Trump.
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Taxing the rich in New York, as Zohran Mamdani has proposed, isn’t just right and necessary.
New polling shows a strong majority support making the wealthy pay, suggesting that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s refusal to do so is political malpractice.
For a century, American wars were planned by think tankers drawn from the boards of Goldman Sachs and Chevron. It gave rise to horrors like Vietnam and Iraq.
That era is over. What comes next is very likely worse.
Chuck Schumer is not only failing to meet the moment by not opposing the war on Iran.
He has long been a hawk on Iran among Democrats and Americans who are yearning for peace.
Germany is in the midst of an industrial job loss wave worse than the one during COVID.
The Right blames the green transition, and parts of the Left blame the Ukraine war.
But the real cause is the shortsightedness of Germany’s political elite.
The largest and longest nurse strike in New York City history concluded last month.
A rank-and-file nurse leader writes in Jacobin about how the 15,000 striking nurses beat giant hospitals to win major victories on safe-staffing and other issues.
After weeks of nurses picketing in the freezing cold, New York City nurses concluded their biggest-ever strike last month.
Jacobin spoke to a striking nurse leader about their fight against intransigent employers and a hostile governor.
For the looksmaxxer, women are irrelevant except as currency to buy rank over other men.
Undoing these market logics with real love is the only way to liberate the looksmaxxer from lonely self-optimization.
Today is the birthday of the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg.
Routinely reduced to an inoffensive libertarian figure, the harder edges of her class-struggle politics are often ignored.
The Supreme Court’s rejection of Donald Trump’s tariffs will likely have little effect on the administration’s tariff regime.
It will, however, further empower the conservative legal movement and its favorite deregulatory tool.
Marxist thinker and revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg was born on this day in 1871. Her life remains a model of unshakable socialist ideals and intellectual rigor.
"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat."
After his White House meeting last week, Zohran Mamdani has a tentative plan to build 12,000 units of affordable housing in Queens.
It’s a chance to tackle the climate and affordability crises simultaneously by building green.
American political leaders are openly stating that the United States is fighting Iran for Israel.
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The Democratic Party has split: one faction masks corporate capitulation as necessary moderation, and the other refuses to tell voters to ignore their experience, admitting that Democrats have long bailed out the ultrarich at workers’ expense.
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The three-decade-old Scream franchise is back and more profitable than ever.
But the series’s trademarked meta-commentary about slasher movie conventions has long since worn thin.
In February, a series of court rulings in Britain exonerated activist group Palestine Action and released most of its jailed activists.
Yet the government continues to call it a terrorist operation in its attempt to repress dissent.
James Talarico prevailed in yesterday’s Democratic Senate primary in Texas with an economic populist message tailored to working-class voters.
His campaign points toward the kind of politics that stand a chance of beating MAGA, even in Trump country.
In the late sixteenth century, the Netherlands revolted against Spanish rule in a decades-long struggle that gave birth to the Dutch Republic.
Although the initial spark for the revolt was religious, it helped pave the way for the rise of capitalism.
After Iran’s leader was killed by a US air strike, pro-intervention media emphasized the celebration of many Iranians.
But a nation of 90 million isn’t a hive mind, and the bitter experience of previous wars puts initial celebrations into grim perspective.
Pension funds are using average Americans’ retirement savings to fuel the financialization of our economy and concentration of oligarchic power in Wall Street’s hands.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Donald Trump’s war on Iran is barely half a week old, and with each day, it has become a bigger and bigger debacle.
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Democrats are pushing a resolution to block Donald Trump from taking further military action in Iran without congressional approval.
But the effort is facing opposition from three lawmakers from their own party backed by the Israel lobby.
It’s not enough just to oppose this war on Iran.
We should demand major cuts to the US military budget, starting with cutting it in half.
High school student Reese Armstrong is mounting a socialist campaign for commissioner in Travis County, Texas.
It’s a safe bet that Armstrong’s focus on public health care, social housing investment, and class politics will surprise voters more than their age.
Donald Trump enacted his trade policy at the stroke of a pen for a whole year by acting quickly and assertively while the courts debated his tariffs’ constitutionality.
It’s an approach the Left can use to much better ends.
“The people whose company I enjoy most are those from a strictly bourgeois background,” Peter Mandelson wrote to his childhood friend Steve Howell in 1973.
It was, Howell observes, deeply ironic that these connections would ultimately bring him down.
In Spain, labor minister and Sumar leader Yolanda Díaz says she won’t run for office again.
Yet while she is stepping aside, there are also growing calls for a united left-wing front to fight in next year’s general election.
From its beginnings, deportation has been a tool used to threaten, suppress, and break dissent.
ICE’s targeting of political enemies like Mahmoud Khalil is no exception.
