When Air Canada flight attendants walked out last month, the Canadian jobs minister issued a back-to-work order. The flight attendants stayed out on strike, becoming the first union to defy such an order from the federal government.
GOP megadonor Charles Munger Jr is spending millions on a campaign against California Democrats’ proposal to redraw the state’s congressional districts — including a mailer that falsely suggests progressive lawmakers and organizations oppose the plan.
Donald Trump has offered Eric Adams a job in his administration, apparently to convince him to drop out of New York’s mayoral race. It’s now official and out in the open: Andrew Cuomo is allying with Trump to beat Zohran Mamdani.
Two years ago, Germany’s Die Linke faced an existential crisis. But this year, it staged a historic comeback. Die Linke’s Ferat Koçak explains how a pro-welfare and anti-racist campaign led his party to victory.
In preparing to strike, United Teachers Los Angeles learned how to build broad backing for common-good goals and prepare for nonviolent action to achieve them — lessons that can be used in the fight against rising authoritarianism.
Donald Trump loves to present himself as a champion of coal miners. But his administration keeps delaying the implementation of a safety rule to lower miners’ exposure to deadly silica dust.
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the US government created a formidable but temporary array of social programs that led to a sharp decline in economic insecurity. Since then, Americans’ economic insecurity has only gotten worse.
Multilevel marketing companies promise that everyone can become a boss and get rich if they hustle hard enough. But they’re actually fraudulent pyramid schemes that, like capitalism writ large, require mass exploitation to enrich the few at the top.
For the first time ever, polls show more Americans support Palestine than Israel. The unwavering fealty to Israel of the Democratic Party and a range of other American institutions can’t last forever.
The Labour Party could have made the case for a humane immigration system that treats refugees with dignity. Instead it has fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far right.
Donald Trump’s attack on the Fed is part of his authoritarian attempt to capture the administrative state. Economist Mona Ali spoke to Jacobin about the stakes of the current clash between Trump and Lisa Cook and what a democratized Fed could look like.
A surprising number of Andrew Cuomo’s allies, donors, and friends have close ties to the late pedophile and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.