Jacobin Magazine

Don’t let the baby boomers moderate the Beatles’ politics. They were undeniably men ofthe Left.

K-pop has reoriented the global music landscape — often at the expense of its stars.

After the scandals of Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022, FIFA hoped North America would offer a less political World Cup. Donald Trump’s return to power ensured exactly the opposite.

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire became a campus sensation because it offered a master theory for globalization at a moment when old Marxist categories seemed exhausted. But the capitalist internationalism they saw as permanent has now crashed and burned.

The Mecca Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan is a response to insecurity and waning American power in the region. The question is whether the new security order will produce more violence rather than less.

The Caribbean of the 1970s was marked by major political and social upheaval. Cricket became a primary vehicle for asserting West Indian independence — and defeating England was paramount.

Washington has spent 64 years trying to kill Cuba’s economy. The numbers say it worked — and that Moscow’s subsidies only postponed the reckoning.

Having long boasted about putting their own countries’ interests first, Europe’s far-right parties are now slavishly supporting the latest US-Israeli war. While they opt for vassalage, antiwar forces have turned out to be the real defenders of sovereignty.

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt blamed Israel for America’s Middle Eastern fiascos. But from Iraq to Iran, Washington has had its own reasons for war in the Gulf.

In an era of cheap drones and pricey interceptors, the US air warfare model doesn’t add up.

Burkina Faso’s military leader has styled himself as the political heir to Thomas Sankara. However, the substance of Traoré’s record since taking power in 2022 is much less ambitious than Sankara’s agenda as president in the 1980s.

The UAE’s expanding presence in Africa pairs developmental investment with a divisive and violent geopolitical agenda.

The real choice is not between globalization and deglobalization, free trade and tariff walls, but between empowering capital and empowering workers.

For Olivia Reingold, one of the most prominent and prolific contributors to The Free Press, defending Israel takes priority over the facts.

The United States hasn’t just ignored the threat of climate change at home; it has used its military and financial might to accelerate environmental destruction around the world. In an interview with Jacobin, geographer Matt Huber explains how US imperialism stokes the fires of a burning planet.

Behind the myth of surgical strikes lies a coalition architecture designed to ensure no single nation takes the blame when civilians die.