Closing the Russiagate
With the end of Mueller’s inquiry, our long, national hallucination is finally over. But the damage done by neocons and liberal conspiracy theorists is just beginning.
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When Fighting Racism Meant Fighting Economic Exploitation
Though often forgotten today, the National Negro Congress forged a black-led, labor-based coalition in New Deal America that fought white supremacy and the economic exploitation that undergirded it.
The Mueller Report Won’t Bring Down Trump
After months of frenzied speculation and breathless commentary, Robert Mueller has turned in his report. But the political landscape some said it would upend is basically unchanged.
The Decline of the Low Countries
The far right swept to record success in last week’s Dutch elections. Yet the vote also saw Geert Wilders’s PVV overshadowed by more traditionalist reactionary forces.
An Uncommon Historian
Eric Hobsbawm wasn’t just a historian of the twentieth-century communist movement: he was part of it.
Issue No. 32 Out Now!
- Issue No. 32
- Winter 2019
A True Story of the Future
In This Issue
A Plan to Win Socialism In America
The welfare state isn’t enough. A Sanders government needs to pursue policies that diminish the power of capital and radically democratize the economy.
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Ilhan Omar Is Not Antisemitic
The rush to condemn Ilhan Omar says more about the vacuousness of our political discourse than the supposed bigotry of her comments.
Rural France in Revolt
The gilets jaunes have put the social ills of rural France at the heart of public debate. These areas aren’t “backward,” they’re suffering from decades of attacks on social welfare and living conditions.
E-Votes for the Far Right
The far-right EKRE party tripled its vote in this month’s Estonian elections. It could soon be in coalition government — and Estonia might start looking like Viktor Orbán’s Hungary.
Labor Unions of the World, Unite
Labor is struggling with how to build international working-class power. The United Electrical Workers offer a model of just that.
Paul Krugman Is Wrong About Medicare for All
Paul Krugman and other critics of Medicare for All are relying on falsehoods to promote a “Medicare for America” faux-alternative.
Abolish the Billionaire Class
Billionaires are the grotesque products of an exploitative, immoral economic system. We should get rid of them.
Canada in the Age of Working-Class Power
In the 1970s, Canada’s working class was at the height of its power, combining shop-floor militancy, political ambition, and intellectual confidence. Canada’s liberal elites, led by Pierre Trudeau, were determined to crush it.
Finding Marielle Franco’s Killers
The investigation into the murder of Marielle Franco keeps bumping up against the most powerful people in Brazil — like President Jair Bolsonaro. They don’t want us to find out the truth.
The Tories’ Islamophobia Problem
The Tories are incredibly racist, and have been forever, and somehow they’re still getting away with it.
Don’t Let Beto O’Rourke Kill Medicare for All
After flip-flopping on health reform for years, Beto O’Rourke claims his public-option bill is a path to Medicare for All. It isn’t — the bill’s means-tested approach will pit working people against each another, keep private insurance companies afloat, and stop M4A’s momentum.
Green New Deal
The Green New Deal can’t just be a bill or two. It needs to be the framework for politics for the next few decades.
Democratize Finance, Euthanize the Fossil Fuel Industry
The Green New Deal won't get far if it's left hostage to the whims of private finance. We need to set up public banks and democratize the Federal Reserve.
“It’s Eco-Socialism or Death”
Cooperation Jackson leader Kali Akuno on the Green New Deal, the need for mass civil disobedience, and the necessity of building an internationalist movement for eco-socialism.
A Green New Deal for Housing
A Green New Deal can’t deliver economic or environmental justice without tackling the housing crisis. We should go big and build 10 million beautiful, public, no-carbon homes over the next 10 years.
AOC’s Green New Deal Starts Strong
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal resolution channels the fire of the climate movement and popular support for truly bold environmental action. Only the Left is offering climate solutions that could actually work.
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