Jacobin Magazine

Amazon delivery drivers in New York wear the company’s uniforms, follow its routes, and are tracked by its software. Yet, legally, they don’t work for Amazon. The Delivery Protection Act (DPA), a bill introduced by socialist New York City Councilor Tiffany Cabán and with a committee hearing scheduled for April 9, would try to resolve […]

At the edge of the Israeli settlement of Carmel, which cleaves the Palestinian village of Umm al-Kheir in two, a football pitch now stands in memory of Awdah Hathaleen. It is a rough rectangle of compacted earth, bordered by wire fencing and crooked metal posts hammered into the ground. Awdah Hathaleen was killed on July […]

Toronto households spent more than CA$440 million on ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft in 2023 — just over half of what they spent on public transit. Among households earning $200,000 or more, spending on ride-hailing has surpassed spending on transit: $146 million to $118 million. That finding captures something larger than a shift in […]

Long before concerns mounted over the role of artificial intelligence in combat — including its role in civilian deaths in the Iran war — OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, was quietly embedding itself inside the national security state to profit from algorithmic warfare. That included hiring a bipartisan roster of over a dozen government insiders […]

The recent local elections across France offer a revealing snapshot of the balance of forces on the Left — and above all, of the position of La France Insoumise (LFI) as it looks toward the presidential elections in 2027. Rather than confirming a crisis or the hegemony of a particular tendency, the results point to […]

As we fight authoritarianism, we cannot cede government to a struggle between MAGA and corporate Democrats. Fifty years of bipartisan neoliberal reforms have hollowed out the public sector, cutting funding and shutting working-class communities out of shaping institutions important to them. Authoritarians blamed these institutions’ failures on immigrants, black people, Muslims, and LGBTQIA people. Reversing […]

Senator Bernie Moreno, one of the wealthiest members of Congress, has risen to become an influential figure in Donald Trump’s political orbit in just his first year in office. Notwithstanding his own background — born in Colombia, a country now under direct threat from Trump’s Republican Party — Moreno has used his influence to successfully […]

It feels like just yesterday when crypto markets last crashed hard. Back in 2022, what had been a wildly careening celebrity- and media-fueled hype train suddenly was a smoldering wreckage. Those were the days of Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud-riddled FTX exchange, which went belly up along with a slew of other big crypto projects. The price […]

With his war on Iran, Donald Trump has already landed a quadruple axel of political self-destruction: notching the most unpopular US war effort in modern history, splitting his own political coalition, seeing his approval rating dip below Joe Biden’s, and, for the first time, falling underwater with white working-class voters.  Trump is peering over the […]

As Donald Trump’s second term unfolds, his administration has adopted an increasingly forceful approach to foreign policy — from threatening allies and pursuing territorial expansion to unlawful military actions stretching from the western hemisphere and the Caribbean to the Middle East, culminating in an escalating and illegal war against Iran waged alongside Israel. In response, […]

When the General Assembly of the Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions (CETU) met in December 2025, it confirmed that the membership of its affiliated unions had, for the first time in Ethiopian history, surpassed one million workers, organized in 2,653 basic enterprise unions. This denotes remarkable growth for a trade union movement whose membership figures […]

Stephen Lewis may be the best ex-politician Canada ever had. Lewis passed away aged eighty-eight on March 31 after a long battle with cancer. News of his death came just two days after his son Avi Lewis won a majority of votes at the federal New Democratic Party (NDP) leadership convention in Winnipeg. Stephen Lewis […]

A specter is haunting the United States — the specter of “total boomer luxury communism.” Or at least that’s what conservative pundits want younger generations to think. Conservative writer Russ Greene coined the term “Total Boomer Luxury Communism” (TBLC) in July 2025 as a cynical riff on the utopian left’s vision of a post-scarcity “fully […]

This past weekend, I traveled to Cuba with the Nuestra América Convoy alongside a delegation of Cuban Americans to deliver aid and stand in solidarity with our fellow Cubans as a US-driven fuel blockade pushes the island deeper into crisis. We brought critical medical supplies to Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras, one of Cuba’s most important hospitals, […]

A funny kind of energy ripples through a crowd as Wallace Shawn saunters through, as he did on March 9 at Greenwich House Theater. It wasn’t an immersive show, but Shawn, dressed in T-shirt and jeans, entered with the audience and chatted with random people as he made his way to the stage. The evening’s […]

On my trip to China last month, I was surprised to learn about China’s latest viral meme: the kill line (斩杀线). The term originates from video games and refers to a point at which a player’s health is so low that they’ll be defeated after a single hit. The Chinese internet has reconfigured this metaphor […]

After propelling its first two members to public office in districts in Brooklyn and Queens and a part of the Bronx a decade ago with Julia Salazar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York City Democratic Socialists of America (NYC-DSA) chapter has elected ten additional members into city and state office and brought two already elected […]

On a January webinar for Chalkbeat, Lindsey Burke, a senior education official in the Trump administration, faced an audience question about the administration’s rationale for moving K-12 programs to the Department of Labor — part of its ongoing effort to dismantle the Education Department. “Arguably schools have broader purposes — civic, moral, and social — […]

If Donald Trump can be depended on for anything, it’s saying the quiet part out loud. At an Easter lunch event at the White House yesterday, the president explained that the cost of war meant the the US government couldn’t afford to spend money on helping Americans meet their basic needs: The United States can’t […]

This March marks the ten-year anniversary of Chapo Trap House, the wildly irreverent and surprisingly influential podcast. Hosted by Will Menaker, Felix Beiderman, Matt Christman, and Amber A’Lee Frost, and produced by Chris Wade, the podcast embodied a new political tendency that Frost dubbed the “dirtbag left.” The Chapos have now published Year Zero #1: […]