Jacobin

The current gerrymandering wars underscore fundamental problems with the United States’ electoral system. The Fair Representation Act, a bill to establish proportional representation in US House elections, offers a way out of this impasse.

What Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution meant to America’s revolutionaries.

Shawn Fain’s reform administration in the United Auto Workers now finds itself locked in conflict with a federal anti-corruption monitor that Fain says is overstepping his bounds — including in opposing the union’s stance against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Tony Mazzocchi was instrumental in reshaping workplace health and safety — a feat made possible by empowering workers themselves to expose hazardous conditions. Recent attacks on OSHA underscore the importance and continued relevance of his work.

A bill now in Congress, written ostensibly to address large-scale cargo theft, contains a provision granting ICE broad exemptions to collect federally protected commercial data. The loophole would expand ICE’s already vast surveillance apparatus.

But progressives need to be careful about how they pitch their appeals to workers.

Tuesday’s election showed us three things: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s victory was not a fluke, grassroots organizing by progressive groups and unions can overcome big money, and unapologetic support for Palestinian freedom can be a winning campaign message.

Advocates of the “political capitalism” and “monopoly capital” theories argue that capitalism is stagnating, increasingly unproductive, and dominated by rent-seeking. These are flawed diagnoses that put socialist strategy on the wrong track.

Popular access to and control over the White House has reached historic lows. There are grander spatial testaments to democracy to be seen in Washington, DC.

In New York City, leaders of unions and nonprofit groups like the Working Families Party again picked the losing, old-guard side in last night’s elections. How long before these leaders get on board with the future of working-class politics?

For decades, the Netherlands’ “no-nonsense” model of neoliberalism has been the poster child for free-market reforms. Yet for all the rhetoric of national unity, this model has forced long periods of austerity and the organized looting of public services.

The United Auto Workers reaffirmed the more militant approach that the union has taken under President Shawn Fain at its convention last week, voting for more funding for new organizing, a bigger strike fund, and divestment from Israel.

A kids’ movie about tech addiction and the terror of being obsolete? Of course Toy Story 5 is a hit — we’re all living through it.

South Asia is witnessing scorching heat waves, with temperatures in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India regularly surpassing 110 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat is killing an unprecedented number of workers who have no choice but to work under the blazing sun. 

With a clean sweep of electoral wins for Zohran Mamdani’s endorsees and nine out of ten victories for NYC Democratic Socialists of America last night, it’s clear the socialist mayor and socialist movement are major political forces to be reckoned with.

Over 50% of the profits from recent oil supply shocks went to the top 1% of Americans. The bottom half received just 1%. The Iran war likely triggered another massive transfer to the very richest.

Last night’s socialist sweep in New York was built on the organizing power of the Democratic Socialists of America, which has now established itself as the leading political power in the city.

For much of the year, Flávio Bolsonaro, son of Brazil’s former president, seemed to be gaining on Lula ahead of the upcoming general election. But a mix of redistributive policies and right-wing incompetence has put the incumbent back in the lead.

The Founders made expansion the precondition of American freedom. We must find an alternative.

This month, four Palestine Action activists were jailed as “terrorists,” even though the jury didn’t convict them on such charges. The case shows how counterterrorism powers are used to impose extreme penalties on unwanted protests.