The United Electrical Workers emerged in the 1930s as a democratic union with an independent fighting spirit. It represented the promise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations — until it split ...

More than three decades since dictator Alfredo Stroessner was forced from office, his Partido Colorado still runs Paraguay. Its leader Horacio Cartes fuses mafia and political power — and is stepping ...

Tenant “right to counsel” policies guarantee legal representation to tenants facing eviction. San Francisco’s policy, established by voters in 2018 and the first of its kind, is proving to be a humane ...

Liz Oliva Fernández is a Cuban journalist.

Israel’s genocide in Gaza has put international concerns front and center for the US left today. Jacobin spoke with three ...

Narendra Modi is seeking a parliamentary supermajority to enact authoritarian constitutional change. India’s political opposition could derail his plan by channeling the spirit of social resistance to ...

In 2017, Georgia-Pacific invented a legal scheme to skirt liability for serious consumer harms. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court allowed the move to stay in place, giving the company more time to ...

New York University is punishing students who protested the genocide in Gaza by forcing them to take a philosophically confused course on “integrity.” University administrators are the ones who need ...

France’s Parti Socialiste is on the rise ahead of the EU elections, under lead candidate Raphaël Glucksmann. He’s appealing to disappointed Macron voters — but his campaign is also squarely aimed at ...

I thought it was odd, and even a little eerie, when I found myself watching Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga entirely alone in a gigantic empty theater during a holiday weekend that’s supposed to kick off the ...

The years leading up to the rise of the Nazi Party are often thought to be paradoxical ones from a cultural perspective. The Weimar Republic collapsed while the republic of letters flourished. Books ...

Babu Jali is a researcher on Indian politics and social movements.