Jacobin

China’s internet is known for a vast system of censorship and surveillance that has evolved alongside its booming digital economy.

Between the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the calamitous stalemate of Donald Trump’s war in Iran, the American foreign policy consensus has been coming apart.

Britain’s latest prime minister, Andy Burnham, raised hackles on his first trip to the North of Ireland when he declared a referendum on Irish unity to be “off the table.”

On the west side of Manhattan, near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel, there is a nearly seventy-foot-tall concrete building containing five thousand tons of road salt.

On October 10, India’s capital city, New Delhi, was turned into a fortress as protesters tried to oppose a countrywide exercise to revise the electoral rolls.

Reporting on how badly Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook drama The Social Reckoning is flopping, I won’t bother to do any better than USA Today’s mild zinger, “Moviegoers are unfriending The Social Reckoning.”

If progressives and radicals had all read Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Church when it came out in 1995, we’d be far stronger today.

After four years of a right-wing government that the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) heavily influenced, the parties that refuse to cooperate with the SD secured a narrow victory in the general election on September 13.

Since the outbreak of high school blockades and students protests in French Guiana and Mayotte this September, Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s party, La France Insoumise, has continued to rise in the polls.

Given all the headlines about the US government trying to deport one or another migrant over their foreign policy views, you’d be forgiven for thinking this is a uniquely Trumpian innovation.

The history of the American left is marked by imposing peaks and valleys.

Early last week, the Trump administration’s State Department announced visa restrictions on a group of Latin American officials it accused of corruption and of “undermining democratically-selected governments.”

Not too long ago, a wave of books written by left-wing and liberal commentators appeared celebrating a future in which work would be a thing of the past.

France’s government has launched an unprecedented campaign of repression against high schoolers after a surprise protest movement kicked off in September.

With the passing of Anwar Shaikh, the left intellectual community has lost one of its most dynamic and brilliant members.

Not long ago, tech companies courted their workers.

The headlines say it all: “Meet the New Leader of the Free World.

“There’s no question that in four or five years’ time, we’re going to use a lot more fossil fuel,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Ezra Klein of The New York Times.

It only took a spark to set France ablaze.

Before the end of this year, the United States will have broken two political records.

“For too long, politics has not been working for people across Britain.

Using its favored policy in the face of inflation, the Federal Reserve Board, under its new chairman, Kevin Warsh, pushed up short-term interest rates in September.

Karl Marx famously declared that he was not a Marxist.

There has been a virulent backlash in the British media against the Green Party of England and Wales since delegates at the party conference voted for a motion that brands Zionism as a racist ideology and supports the formation of a single democratic state

Six weeks after the outbreak of World War I, as Europe’s great empires sent millions to their deaths, Karl Kautsky published an essay predicting something almost impossible to believe.

The coalition that sent Donald Trump back to the White House in 2024 marked the culmination of a long-term political realignment that conservative authors and activists had anticipated since the 1970s.

Could it be that Spain hasn’t let you know?

You may have heard already that Digger, the new film cowritten and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (The Revenant, Birdman) and starring Tom Cruise, is an expensive box-office bomb that got many annihilating reviews.

The first round of Brazil’s elections dealt a heavy blow to the Workers’ Party (PT) and, more broadly, to the cause of democracy in Latin America.

Bernie Sanders changed my life.

In June, the policy world held its collective breath as the World Inequality Lab, the outfit headed by Thomas Piketty, released a report meant to serve as a capstone to years of extensive research on the elusive goal of leveling global incomes.

We live in a time when everything is political — except politics.

Fifteen years isn’t enough for a generation, but it seems it is the right amount of time for a “political cycle.”

Before Paul Berman became a liberal hawk, he was a New Left veteran who edited a book called Quotations from the Anarchists.

In early 2022, a group of Twitter employees were quietly trying to unionize the company.

Donald Trump’s approval on immigration is so deathly low, and his ongoing deportation raids so unpopular even in red states, that you’d be forgiven for thinking his administration has pumped the brakes on the issue.

At the “We Shall Not Be Moved” event in New York on September 21, Senator Bernie Sanders delivered a programmatic speech that attacked the United States’ staggering trillion-dollar war budget.

In April, President Donald Trump requested a $445 billion increase to the defense budget, meaning the United States will be spending around $1.5 trillion on the military.

Bernie Sanders’s impact on the American left is not typically measured in social movement terms.

As Brazil heads toward Sunday’s presidential election first round, the contest is on a knife-edge.

Twenty years ago, I shared a platform with Aubrey Morris, one of the “ordinary” heroes of the Battle of Cable Street on October 4, 1936 — the iconic event in Britain’s prewar antifascist history.

For a time this summer, Brazil’s presidential election seemed Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s to lose, and Latin America’s largest democracy appeared poised to hold its ground while right-wing candidates triumphed in Colombia, Peru, Honduras, Chile, and Panam…

On May 12, 1962, General Douglas MacArthur strode into the West Point mess hall and delivered a stirring farewell address before an audience of more than two thousand cadets.

New York City’s new municipal strategy to combat antisemitism comes just days after the war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu used his platform at the United Nations to call Zohran Mamdani “the antisemitic mayor of New York” and claim that since his election “m…

If you’re anyone who veers remotely to the left politically, there are two eras: a time before Bernie Sanders ran for president, and a time after.

As a young member of the Front National (today’s Rassemblement National), Jordan Bardella was an “obsessive antisemite,” according to a story published by investigative site Mediapart this Monday.

When one thinks of the rich in the United States, the first people who come to mind are the megabillionaires whose extravagant consumption, eye-popping wealth, and notorious political interventions have transformed them into household names.

More than the “revolutionary historian” promised by the subtitle, the Eric Hobsbawm chronicled in Emile Chabal’s biography is above all a canny academic entrepreneur.

The English inventor Charles Babbage is best remembered for his work designing the foundations for all digital computers with Ada Lovelace in the nineteenth century.

Over the past decade since his first presidential run, no one has done more to reshape the American left than Bernie Sanders.