Catalonia: From Referendum to Republic?
Amid a general strike in Catalonia, we speak to Lluc Salellas of anticapitalist party CUP about the next steps for the independence movement.
The new issue of Catalyst is out now, featuring Mike Davis and more!
What’s Good for Facebook…
Mark Zuckerberg’s barely concealed political ambitions are an extension of his company’s lobbying efforts.
The Obamacare Ratchet Effect
The Republicans have learned a basic political lesson: benefit programs create their own constituencies. Will Democrats catch on?
The Case for Single-Payer
Winning Medicare for All would allow us to take a giant step toward health justice.
Monarchists and Automobiles
Saudi Arabia has finally lifted its ban on women driving. But the repression at the core of the monarchy remains.
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Prison Abolition and Prison Reform
A Jacobin debate featuring Roger Lancaster, Dan Berger, Mariame Kaba, and David Stein.
Response: “A Word on Words”
Disagreements between prison abolitionists and those advocating sustaining prison reform may come down to words, but those words matter.
What Abolitionists Do
Prison abolitionists aren't naive dreamers. They're organizing for concrete reforms, animated by a radical critique of state violence.
How to End Mass Incarceration
The American prison system is brutal and unjust. But the rhetoric of prison abolition won’t help us end its depravities.
The Left After Charlottesville
The Left can’t allow itself to be consumed by debates about antifa. We need a proactive program and patient organizing.
What Reunification Wrought
East and West Germany reunified on October 3, 1990. But for most workers, the hopes of that day were dashed.
Trump vs. Graduate Workers
The University of Chicago is fighting its graduate union tooth and nail — with a little help from the Trump administration.
Wealth Inequality Is Higher Than Ever
New data confirms what we already knew: the haves have a ton. And the have-nots have next to nothing.
The Next Battle
Macron’s anti-union reforms have passed the first stage, so what’s next for the French left?
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Earth, Wind, & Fire
In This Issue
If We Fail
The effects of climate change are already upon us. Here’s what the 2020s and 2030s will look like if we fail to change things.
Within and Against Capitalism
Our new edition is about climate change, but climate change isn’t just an issue to talk about every few years.
Only the Beginning
Podemos MEP Miguel Urbán talks about Europe’s political crisis — and why the left must meet it with radicalism, not moderation.
What Democrats Must Do
The Democratic Party’s pursuit of well-off whites undermined its ability to deliver gains for all workers. Going forward, it must place the multiracial working class at the center of its political vision.
Organize the Minor Leagues
Minor league baseball players get paid little and enjoy even fewer labor rights. The only solution is organizing.
We’ll See Each Other in Bogotá
The western hemisphere’s oldest guerrilla army is putting down their arms and becoming a political party. What does the future hold for them?
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Medicare for All
The Case for Single-Payer
Winning Medicare for All would allow us to take a giant step toward health justice.
The Redundancy Myth
Implementing Medicare for All would cause some job loss. But it would be more manageable than you might think.
The Political and the Technical
Rebutting the latest anti–Medicare for All nonsense.
