Jacobin

Eric Hobsbawm was a master of what he self-deprecatingly called haute vulgarisation, Oxbridge-inflected confident generalization based on selectively chosen data. He combined this elite education with popular appeal in a way few had done before.

New revelations allege French far-right leader Jordan Bardella was once an obsessive antisemite who wrote that Jews dominate and rob other peoples. While his National Rally party has airbrushed its image, the conspiratorial worldview remains at its core.

The freedom and flourishing of children were central to Marx’s vision of human emancipation and his critique of capitalism.

It’s been ten years since Bernie Sanders’s first presidential run — a run that transformed the Left and our sense of the possible in this country. It should be remembered as one of the most consequential electoral campaigns in US history.

Democracy should not end when the workday begins. Workers deserve a say over how their workplaces are run — and a claim on the wealth they create.

Middling capitalists such as auto dealers, beer distributors, and niche manufacturers control a substantial amount of American wealth, which they often use to advance right-wing political priorities. Their size and power shouldn’t be neglected.

The first computers were designed with labor discipline in mind. Today’s AI industry is finishing the job, and young white-collar workers are already paying the price.

The Barack Obama Presidential Center promised to be more than an ode to the former president. In reality, it’s an $850 million monument to the vacuousness that defined Obama liberalism.

Frederick Douglass believed the US would only live up to its ideals when it granted equal rights to all citizens. He thought the best way to do this was to show that the Constitution was a radical document capable of delivering on this promise.

In Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative, Evan Barker shows how the Democratic Party turned its back on American workers. Her diagnosis is devastating. Her cure, a revenge vote for Donald Trump, is pure quackery.

Speaking to Jacobin, Owen Jones argues that austerity, falling living standards, and the collapse of the old political order created an opening the Right has exploited.

After the scandals of Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022, FIFA hoped North America would offer a less political World Cup. Donald Trump’s return to power ensured exactly the opposite.

Hungary’s hard-right premier Viktor Orbán is no longer in power. But he’s getting a belated victory as activist Rexhino Abazaj, known as Gino, is being extradited for trial over an alleged attack on fascists in Budapest.

Amazon has long been synonymous with workplace surveillance. With the introduction of “smart delivery glasses,” the logistics giant may soon ensure that not a moment of its drivers’ time on the clock will go unwatched.

Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime casts Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen and bathes him in hellfire-red close-ups. The result is a grimy fever dream about the ugly thrills of televised punishment. It is very much a movie for our times.

As the Brazilian presidential election draws closer, Lula is in a very tight contest with Flávio Bolsonaro, son and heir of the Bolsonaro dynasty. The election is a struggle between Brazil’s democratic forces and the return to power of a reactionary bloc.

Britain once built a government advertising agency for empire, and modernist artists helped market colonial rule.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the US government, across Republican and Democratic administrations alike, has been slowly dismantling what was once the most generous asylum system in the world.

Don’t let the baby boomers moderate the Beatles’ politics. They were undeniably men of the Left.

After doing lasting damage to the relationship between the US and Europe, Donald Trump got roughly the same deal over Greenland he could have obtained by asking politely. The administration’s plan to acquire the island has been put on the back burner.