12.05
“Everything Will Change”
Yes, the defeat of Renzi’s constitutional reform was a victory. And no, it won’t condemn Italy to right-wing authoritarianism.
12.05
Yes, the defeat of Renzi’s constitutional reform was a victory. And no, it won’t condemn Italy to right-wing authoritarianism.
12.05
Matteo Renzi’s constitutional reform was politically illegitimate in method and antidemocratic in content. We should celebrate its rejection.
12.05
Carbon pricing is a win for everybody — except for those who profit off environmental destruction.
12.05
In the Colombian city of Barrancabermeja, a century of violence has disintegrated working-class power.
12.04
Canadian mining and petroleum companies rank among the most world’s most abusive and destructive.
12.04
Though often overlooked, working-class movements played a substantial role shaping the Cuban Revolution.
12.03
If Italian voters reject Sunday’s constitutional referendum, the country could see a left revival in the name of popular democracy.
12.03
From local to local, the labor movement needs to transform into an effective machine for fighting the Right.
12.02
Say “Colombian peace talks,” and you’ll likely think of the FARC. But another guerrilla group is key to securing a transformative peace.
12.02
The recent Teamsters election didn’t unseat the old guard’s James P. Hoffa, but it left him discredited and vulnerable.
12.02
No matter which party has held office over the last fifty years, Henry Kissinger has been in power.
12.02
With Castro gone and Trump in the White House, the stakes are high for ordinary Cubans. We spoke to some of them.
12.01
In Massachusetts, students, parents, and teachers defeated a $23 million campaign to lift the state’s cap on charter schools. How did they do it?
12.01
This summer, the Department of Justice stopped using private prisons. But the profit motive still drives immigrant detention.
12.01
Hezbollah’s record shows that the party’s interests are more aligned with elites than with workers.
11.30
How, in an age in which “the fast eat the slow,” has Thomas Friedman not been gobbled up?
11.30
Liberal pundits would have us write off all Trump supporters. But only a broad working-class movement can defeat the far right.
11.30
The slaveholding class defeated in the Civil War were no ragtag band of sectionalists — they were the masters of the US state.
11.30
A Road Unforeseen is an inspiring account of the autonomous Kurdish region in Syria, but it glosses over Rojava’s contradictions.
11.29
The Democratic donor class will resist the very policies that could unite workers of all races. They can’t subdue Trumpism.
11.29
Colombia’s new peace deal won’t deliver justice, but its failure would be catastrophic.