Jacobin

“I’d be lying to you if I told you that yesterday I didn’t double-lock the door, just in case they come to take us down in the middle of the night.”

Fatherland, the new Paweł Pawlikowski film about Thomas Mann’s 1949 trip to Germany, may be the most powerful film about the current moment — really, the last ten years — that I’ve seen.

The French government was almost desperate for something to happen.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s election victory last night in Brazil is being widely celebrated as one of the great political comebacks of our time: the first time any Brazilian presidential candidate has come back from a first-round loss, achieved on the ba…

What’s on the mind of the ruling class these days?

No country treats referendums as less definitive than Canada.

Following a stunning, inspiring turnaround driven by mass mobilization of the Brazilian people, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has won his fourth presidential election.

To fully grasp what has been going on since October 7, 2023, in the territories newly reoccupied by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, it is necessary to examine the pattern of these occupations against previous ones conducted by the Zionist state.

In June 1956, a delegation of renowned British left-wing economists, including Joan Robinson and Maurice Dobb, traveled to Poland to learn about its socialist transformation.

With the 2026 midterm elections approaching and Donald Trump’s approval ratings at record lows, it’s easy to hope that we might someday soon find the politics of Trumpism behind us.

Israel’s parliamentary elections are fast approaching on October 27, with Benjamin Netanyahu facing a challenge from the opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot.

“We can do this to any country we want.

Next Tuesday, Israel will hold its first general election since the October 7 attacks and the destruction of Gaza.

Attempts to make generalizations from what happens in the United States and Europe to the rest of the planet do not, as a rule, meet with much surprise; these are, after all, generally assumed to be the most advanced edges of world history, where processes

Thirty years after Hyman Minsky’s death, his name is more familiar than his political economy.

I t is not a novel point that Israel acts like a rogue state, or that its behavior toward the United States often more closely resembles the behavior of an adversary than that of an ally.

Yet again, the world is failing to give Yemen the attention it deserves.

Organizers like to say that all politics boils down to a battle between organized money and organized people.

Vancouver’s contrasts are visible on its streets.

As Brazil heads to the polls on Sunday, the latest polls show Flávio Bolsonaro’s lead over incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowing.

For an industry that we’re told is central to our collective future, the artificial intelligence (AI) industry increasingly seems to be built on a combination of artificially inflated hopes and bad accounting.

With the passing of Chris Wickham earlier this month, we have lost the greatest medieval historian since Marc Bloch, and one of the most original Marxist historians ever.

When the government first filed major antitrust lawsuits targeting Big Tech back in 2020, many people were optimistic that the long-standing practice of public legal action against monopolistic companies could rein in these economy-dominating corporations.

Last week, I looked at what Rick Warren’s 1995 classic The Purpose Driven Church can teach the Left about recruitment in our atomized era.

The faiths and hopes of the postwar middle-class society have mostly evaporated today.

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s fascinating documentary You Can See Everything is now the object of obsession for moviegoers everywhere.

In the past decade, much ink has been spilled over the question of whether we are witnessing a resurgence of fascism.

It is difficult to write in memory of Peter Thomas.

W hen the credits began to roll at the screening I attended of You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s buzzy new documentary, it was like waking up from a dream.

On Roda Island in the Nile stands a stone column nineteen cubits (thirty-four feet) tall and nearly 1,200 years old.

Mike Wallace once handed me a matchbook, the kind of paper trinket that served like ticker-tape as a currency of the twentieth-century city: given out at corner stores and newsstands, boxing matches and cafeterias, free-flowing from cigarette and candy bo…

Outside periods of recession, the public mood has rarely been as downbeat about the economy as it is today, with consumer confidence at a historic low and polls recording a deep pessimism about where things are headed.

The economist Isabella Weber is best known for her work on what is often called “seller’s inflation,” the ability of firms with market power to hike prices and boost profits during an emergency.

On October 8, the Green Party fell short in a parliamentary by-election for the London constituency of Holborn and St Pancras that had been triggered by the resignation of Keir Starmer.

In our hyperpolitical age, when mass protests come and go without much clear sense of what was won or lost, the strategies of social movements can seem quixotic, their benchmarks of success fuzzy.

Always glad to see Elon Musk pummeled, of course, as he is in Alex Gibney’s documentary Musk, now playing in theaters.

In 1872, the German socialist newspaper Der Volksstaat ran a series of articles on housing.

On Tuesday, September 22, the Spanish Council of Ministers refused to block a US extradition request for James “Fergie” Chambers, a prominent and wealthy leftist activist and donor.

Susan Collins has been the senator from Maine for twenty-nine years, during which time she’s received scrutiny for her coziness with corporate donors, her record on war with Iran, and her votes against lowering prescription drug prices, among other things.

It isn’t uncommon for states to retaliate against the filmmakers who insult them.

After protests and riots swept France this weekend following the escalating social movement sparked by high schooler blockades, right-wingers internationally responded with a straightforwardly racist narrative.

In the Acts of the Apostles, the followers of Jesus Christ are repeatedly described as belonging to “the Way.”

Silkwood, a 1983 dramatization of the life of worker-activist Karen Silkwood, starring Cher, Kurt Russell and Meryl Streep, is the best and probably the only Hollywood movie about occupational safety and health.

Jacobin began in the United States, but our emancipatory project has always been internationalist.

Montreal has been touted as a major creative hub for the video game industry for over twenty years, leading the province of Quebec’s efforts to develop its digital creative sector.

Anwar Shaikh, one of the most important Marxist economists of his generation, died on October 6 at the age of eighty in New York City.

Here’s a question progressives get asked constantly: Fine, you want universal childcare, Medicare for All, and a green economy — but how are you going to pay for it?

English food does not have a good reputation.

According to data from a sweeping new study of working-class legislators by political scientists Nicholas Carnes and Noam Lupu, only about 2 percent of legislators across the world’s democracies held a working-class job — which the authors define as manua…

In the ten weeks since multimillionaire lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella was inaugurated as Colombia’s president, the country has undergone a significant political shift with respect to asserting its national sovereignty, with Colombia returning to — and p…