Israel: Outpost or Country?
In the Orwellian world in which we now dwell, countries and groups that uphold international law are labeled terrorists or supporters of terrorism, while those that commit unspeakable crimes,...
View ArticleMass Struggles, Organised Labour and the Left In 21st Century Nigeria
Working-class people and youths have waged struggles of great significance over the last twenty-five years. These have been mass resistance that transformed into counter-offensives of the exploited...
View ArticleYou and Your Neighbors Can Help Change the World
United Neighbors of the 35th Ward didn’t wait for Inauguration Day to start working to keep our people safe from wrongful detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. As a hyperlocal...
View ArticleNED-Funded AFL-CIO Solidarity Center Warns of Bankruptcy
The AFL-CIO’s international wing, the misleadingly named Solidarity Center, is over 90% funded by the US government. In a Federal Court filing and declaration on March 6, 2025, the Director of the...
View ArticleHistory of Hollywood Red Scare Offers Insight Into Trump’s Free Speech Attacks
President Donald Trump, now well into his second term, is hell-bent on retribution, threatening journalists, political opponents, judges, academia, pro-Palestinian protesters, and more, with jail,...
View ArticleOligarchy, Empire, and Revolution in Central America
This is the first in a two-part series on Central America’s history and present, featuring scholars Hilary Goodfriend and Jorge Cuéllar in conversation with Daniel Denvir on The Dig, a Jacobin Radio...
View ArticleGermany in Crisis — The Lost Man of Europe
This is the first of four reports on the crises that now beset Germany — what they are, the history that produced them, and how Germans think about finding their way forward once again. I thank...
View ArticleUnions as a 21st Century Anti-Fascist Force
One of the principal difficulties facing the Democratic Party establishment and most leaders of organized labor is a failure to accept a fundamental reality: there is no normality. The failure to grasp...
View ArticleTen National Unions Call for Anti-Trump Resistance
Ten national unions and dozens of locals representing more than 3 million members have issued a joint statement demanding the release of immigrant workers recently snatched by Immigration and Customs...
View ArticleWhat Would a General Strike in the US Actually Look Like?
Something is in the air: A perception that American democracy and livable conditions for working people may only be saved by the kind of large-scale nonviolent direct action variously called “general...
View ArticleSouth Korea’s Presidential Impeachment Was Long Overdue
After more than seven weeks of deliberations, South Korea’s Constitutional Court has finally upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol, who attempted to subvert the constitutional order with a...
View ArticleIsraeli Troops Blow Whistle on War Crimes in Gaza ‘Kill Zone’
An Israeli human rights group on Monday published a report in which Israel Defense Forces officers and soldiers who took part in the creation of a buffer zone along Gaza’s border with Israel described...
View ArticleWhy Social Democrats in Germany Are Facing Extinction
The coalition negotiations between the social democratic SPD and conservative right CDU/CSU are going surprisingly smoothly, almost harmoniously. Lars Klingbeil, co-chairman of the SPD, explains that...
View ArticleTrump’s Tariffs Are Not Unlike Previous US Plan That Ended in Disaster
As Donald Trump’s global tariffs come into effect – with the world continuing to reel and the markets still in turmoil from the shock of their announcement – it makes sense to look for parallels in US...
View Article“All Governments Lie”: Why We Need a Radical and Independent Free Press Now
Media scholar Carl Jensen was deeply influenced by the independent muckraking journalists of the twentieth century—so much so that he founded Project Censored at Sonoma State University, in 1976, in...
View ArticleThe State of Africa In The New World Order
Africa today stands at a crossroads, caught between internal crises, shifting global power dynamics, and the slow unraveling of the post-liberation political order. Across the continent, ruling parties...
View ArticleIs This The World We Created?
It is all a part of the same phenomenon. Western governments actively assisting genocide in Gaza; attacks on benefits for the disabled; a deliberate official narrative of Russophobia; rampant...
View ArticleAmerican Unions and Workers Confront Trump’s Savage Attack
President Donald Trump has launched a vicious, multifaceted attack on American workers of all sorts and workers are beginning to respond, but both the working class and the unions are divided, making...
View ArticleWhy Are HANDS OFF Rallies Supporting NATO?
We are passionate supporters of all but one of the items on the Hands Off agenda for the April 5 rallies. We couldn’t agree more that the corrupt U.S. government should stop destroying, privatizing,...
View ArticleThe Left Facing the European Arms Race
“Rearming Europe” is the new watchword of European political elites. A new focus that has even surpassed the old dogmas of public debt limits. In this dossier, we visit a plurality of analyses from...
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