The Global Sumud Flotilla seemingly breached Israel’s blockade of Gaza while provoking an Israeli response that triggered anger and reprisals from various governments. It’s one of the most successful acts of civil disobedience in recent history.
Algorithms are not apolitical tools that simply improve efficiency in online transactions or workplace coordination. They are instruments of control and should be regulated like other tools of control.
For two years, Germany’s socialist party Die Linke tried to skirt around its divisions over Gaza. Joining last Saturday’s massive demonstration in Berlin, its leaders finally showed the party can be a clear voice against the genocide.
Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change.
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, a self-described “anti-communist cult leader” used a selectively edited video to falsely accuse labor historian and tenured professor Tom Alter of inciting violence. Texas State University’s president swiftly fired him.
Donald Trump’s profligate spending on America’s domestic militarization, coupled with tax cuts for the rich and continued military adventures abroad, suggests that much in American conservatism today remains similar to what it was under George W. Bush.
An ICE raid on workers at a Hyundai plant in Georgia has sent shock waves through South Korean politics. It came just as Donald Trump has been trying to strong-arm South Korea’s government into accepting an extortionate trade deal with the US.
From deftly handling a hostile Donald Trump to securing real economic gains for workers, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum ends her first year in office with a remarkable 80% approval rating. Now the real fight for Mexico’s economic sovereignty begins.
Some argue that the continued existence of the middle class refutes Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber explains why this is wrong.
Even before October 7, 2023, Gazans had been reduced to the role of a surplus population with minimal employment within Israel. Their expulsion from Israel’s capitalist economy helped to lay the groundwork for genocide.
With wealth inequality and billionaire control over American society growing ever more obscene, it’s well past time to implement a maximum wage limit.
The perpetual advice to Democrats is that moving rightward will solve all their problems. But look where the party is at the moment: already embracing Republican affect and policies, yet still losing.