Socialist New York State Assembly member and nurse Phara Souffrant Forrest on why New York City nurses are right to be on strike demanding safer staffing levels, a modest pay increase, and new safety measures on the job.
Our Obsession With Personal Responsibility Is Making Us Sick
Poor health outcomes are often treated as an unfortunate by-product of individual bad decisions. This moralizing approach ignores the role poverty plays in determining who gets ill and who can afford to get well.
The UAW Volkswagen Contract Is a Win for Unions in the South
After over 500 days of bargaining, the United Auto Workers have reached a first contract with Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee — a major breakthrough for unions in the South that lays the ground for further inroads at other employers across the region.
Britain’s Rulers Have Been Partners in the Gaza Genocide
Tory and Labour governments in Britain have provided every conceivable form of support for Israel’s genocidal project in Gaza. Peter Oborne, an independent-minded conservative journalist, has now provided us with a definitive record of their complicity.
How Big Tech Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bombs
Until quite recently, many Big Tech firms opposed the militarization of AI, but that now seems like ancient history as they move to sign partnerships with arms companies. The prospect of lavish Pentagon funding for AI is too tempting to refuse.
If Zohran Mamdani is serious about delivering on his promises, he needs more than policies — he needs institutions that empower working people. Popular assemblies offer a way to build a new, bottom-up political culture in New York City.
Samantha Kattan Wants to Join New York’s Socialists in Albany
As socialist New York legislator Claire Valdez runs for Congress, socialist housing organizer Samantha Kattan is running to replace her in the state assembly. We spoke to Kattan about her campaign.
Reading C. Wright Mills in the Age of Trump
Seventy years ago, C. Wright Mills published The Power Elite, a scathing indictment of corporate executives, state officials, and their academic apologists. His analysis has lost none of its bite as we confront an increasingly degenerate US power elite.
Credit Reporting Companies Want to Hide Consumer Complaints
The major credit reporting companies that help determine your ability to obtain a loan, buy a house, or get a job are urging the Trump administration to hide consumer complaints about their potential misdeeds, which can wreck families’ finances.
Mongolia’s Crisis Is an Opportunity to Transform Its System
Over the last year, Mongolia has been experiencing a political crisis, with its parliament and president bitterly at odds. The crisis is symptomatic of a state and an economic model that denies the country’s people the benefits of its mineral wealth.
Neoliberalism didn’t win an intellectual argument — it won power. Vivek Chibber unpacks how employers and political elites in the 1970s and ’80s turned economic turmoil into an opportunity to reshape society on their terms.
Svalbard Could Be the Arctic’s Next Geopolitical Flashpoint
While Donald Trump’s bid to grab control over Greenland from Denmark has been attracting all the headlines, the focus on the Arctic is also making Norway anxious. Its northern territory Svalbard could become another bone of geopolitical contention.
Governor Kathy Hochul Is Undermining Striking New York Nurses
As a historic nurses’ strike enters its fourth week, New York governor Kathy Hochul has protected hospitals from the strike’s impact by making it easier to hire scabs and doing little to stop executives from dragging out a fight over staffing and safety.
The Minneapolis Strategy for Fighting ICE Is Worth Studying
In Minneapolis, years of robust labor and community organizing set the stage for the fierce pushback against federal immigration agents’ aggressive invasion. Their experience may soon be relevant to cities elsewhere in the US facing incursions from ICE.
Send Help and Sam Raimi’s Genre Movie Joy
Are you desperate for genre movie escapist fun amid all this hell lately? Who isn’t? Sam Raimi’s Send Help is just what the doctor ordered.