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.
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.
Framed as a strike on “evil,” Washington and Tel Aviv’s attacks leave Iran with few off-ramps.
Tehran’s incentives now point toward escalation as a matter of survival.
Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani met for a second time on Thursday.
The meeting was conciliatory, with Mamdani having apparently hypnotized Trump with charisma and overt flattery. It’s both a savvy and potentially perilous strategy.
Marek Broderick is the youngest member of the Burlington City Council.
He’s using his seat to bridge the gap between student activism and the city’s broader working-class struggles.
The US’s bad faith engagement in its negotiations with Iran have undermined any chance of a quick deescalation of the war.
Fighting for its survival, Iran will give Israel the regional war it craves.
The United States is attacking Iran because Donald Trump was determined to drag us into war no matter what — and despite repeatedly insisting he would do the exact opposite.
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Artificial intelligence is unlikely to produce permanent mass unemployment, Vivek Chibber argues.
But without class struggle from below and state action, automation will deepen inequality and leave workers to bear its costs.
The US/Israeli attack on Iran has inflicted heavy damage on its command structure, but the Iranian system is designed to withstand such pressure.
We should expect a more protracted war than last summer, with political factors key to the final outcome.
