Inspired by Zohran Mamdani’s victory in New York and building their own electoral powerhouse, LA’s socialists recently deliberated on whether to weigh in on their city’s mayoral race.
The questions confronting the movement are a sign of its growing power.
In Sweden, workers boycotted Russian ships in response to the invasion of Ukraine, and then did the same for Israel’s arms trade.
Their action shows the power of working-class solidarity against militarism.
In Hungary’s election, Péter Magyar rallied urban white-collar workers, business figures excluded from state patronage networks, intellectuals, and youth.
It’s much less clear that his new government can satisfy all these groups’ expectations.
The dance marathons of the Great Depression have gone down in legend as a way of turning desperate people into fodder for exploitative entertainment.
The spirit of the marathons is alive and well in the contemporary world of reality TV.
Jonah Hill’s new Apple TV Hollywood satire, Outcome, wants to skewer celebrity culture.
But even with the likable Keanu Reeves, its muddled script and self‑pitying subtext reveal more about the industry’s narcissism than the film ever intended.
The movement for taxes on the rich in New York just scored its first goal against Kathy Hochul.
And they say they’re not stopping there.
Gabriel Rockhill’s polemic against Western Marxism seeks to condemn a set of postwar left-wing intellectuals such as Herbert Marcuse.
Heavy on innuendo but light on evidence, the result is more like a show trial than a serious political indictment.
Burkina Faso’s military leader, Ibrahim Traoré, has styled himself as the political heir of 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.
Before they faced fierce repression from the US government at the outbreak of the Cold War, early 20th-century Communist labor organizers helped build the New York hotel workers’ union into one of the city’s most militant unions.
In New York City, a tax on superexpensive second homes is a victory for Zohran Mamdani and the socialist movement and should mark the beginning of a larger project of redistribution.
Aparna Raj is a tenant organizer and socialist running for city council in Washington, DC.
We spoke to Raj about the affordability crisis in the nation’s capital and why the push for DC statehood will be crucial under a potentially Democratic Congress.
After Congress banned Big Tech from working with TikTok, major tech firms like Apple and Google privately requested the Trump administration assure them they wouldn't be prosecuted under the law.
The president happily granted them full amnesty.
Governments and tech moguls have bet hundreds of billions on artificial intelligence.
If the technology does what it promises, we will have to radically rethink how the global economy functions.
In an age of renewed empire, the question of how to resist has again raised its head.
The interwar Latin American left’s debates over race, nation, and class shed light on the thorny problem of self-determination within anti-imperialism.
Fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which began 83 years ago today, believed resistance was a moral imperative.
The Great Palestinian Revolt of 1936-39 began on this day 90 years ago.
Palestinians struggled against the pro-Zionist British Mandate. In retaliation, the British destroyed over 2,000 Palestinian homes over the next three years.
Geese are the most talked about new rock band in years.
But thanks to a recent Wired article, they’re now facing a backlash — accused of being privileged, reactionary, and even a “psyop.”
It’s everything that’s wrong with music discourse today.
A California logistics worker allegedly burned down a 1.2-million-square-foot warehouse in anger over low pay.
The billionaire class may have to learn the hard way: you can only pack so much pressure into a deeply unequal system before it blows.
Mexico’s new national health system aims to provide universal care.
At a moment when US taxpayer dollars are being harnessed to destroy health care infrastructure abroad, Mexico is attempting to make a constitutional right to care into a lived reality.
Critics see Zohran Mamdani’s inclusion of the wealthy in his new free public childcare initiative as a flaw.
It’s actually an integral part of the policy’s design, rooted in the fact that universal programs are far more enduring than means-tested ones.
Thirty years after the Eldorado do Carajás massacre, Brazil’s landless poor still find themselves under the heel of Latin America’s most powerful and impudent rural oligarchy.
Viktor Orbán was full of contradictions: a critic of neoliberalism who gave handouts to corporations and a moralist who ended up mired in scandal.
But even after his election defeat, it’s unclear how much Hungary will really change.
On this day in 1965, the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) launched its anti-Vietnam War march on Washington, D.C.
Over 15,000 students participated in the protest, making it the largest antiwar demonstration to date.
As long as housing remains a profit-driven investment for landlords, the pace and scope of decarbonization will be shaped by their financial calculations.
That’s a problem.
We can’t revive labor without reviving workers’ confidence to take action on the job.
In 1936 and into 1937, during a period of union weakness, Flint’s sit-down strikers in the auto industry figured out how to do just that.
The defining feature of American imperialism is its combination of an enormous capacity for death and destruction with an equally enormous sense of self-entitlement.
Cold War journalist Dwight Macdonald understood this outlook better than most.
Japan’s conservative leader, Takaichi Sanae, won a supermajority of seats in this year’s general election.
Takaichi and her allies are using this position of strength to advance a dangerous militarist agenda as part of Washington’s anti-China front.
While many critics view rising global chaos strictly in geopolitical terms, political philosopher Lea Ypi argues that it’s really ideological — the result of an increasingly coordinated global right.
To compete, the Left must internationalize in equal measure.
