We Need To Start Our Own People's CDC

The CDC is beholden to corporations and has lost our trust. We’re epidemiologists, nurses and physicians, artists and biologists. We have come together with a common anger at the US government’s handling of Covid

Gaza Facing Crisis 'Worse Than Anything We Have Seen'

When almost all of Gaza’s water is not fit for human consumption because of a deliberate Israeli strategy, one can understand why Palestinians continue to fight back as if their lives are dependent on it; because they are.

Starbuck's Anti-Union Tactic: Fire Worker Leaders

Starbucks is firing worker activists as it seeks to blunt the momentum of the union drive sweeping the company. Jacobin spoke to Laila Dalton, who was fired just weeks after the NLRB issued a complaint against Starbucks for retaliating against her.

What Would It Take to Reduce U.S. Military Spending

A Thought Experiment on the Military-Industrial Complex

Global Left Midweek – April 6, 2022

How the war is changing thinking on the international left

Library Group Launches Anti-Censorship Campaign

"There were more censorship attempts in 2021 than at any time since the American Library Association began tracking more than two decades ago," the organization said.

Workers Used Amazon’s Captive Audience Meetings

Workers flipped the script on the e-commerce giant by turning anti-union tactics into organizing opportunities.

Understanding “The Correlation of Forces”

Why Russia Fumbled in Ukraine, China Lost Its Way, and America Should Exercise Restraint

David Weil’s Defeat on the Senate Floor Is an Outrage

What’s the point of a Democratic Party if it isn’t going to protect the interests of working people?

Media Bits and Bytes – April 5, 2022

Media and the organizing wave, women and war coverage, and much more
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Culture

poetry

Brandon Langford Talks Through Detention

Maryfrances Wagner Rattle
Anyone passing through high school discipline will appreciate the fate of Brandon as told by his teacher, Missouri Laureate Maryfrances Wagner.

books

The Red Scare Scarred the Left — But Couldn’t Kill It

Benjamin Balthaser Jacobin
The postwar Second Red Scare successfully smashed the American left. But in the midst of its devastation, a small number of old leftists refused to be shut up by the climate of fear. Without their heroism, the New Left could never have emerged.

film

How CODA Managed To Pull Out a Best Picture Win

Alissa Wilkinson Vox
CODA may not really be 2021’s best film, but CODA’s Best Picture win might just make the best sense. As a representative of the topsy-turvy movie year, in a topsy-turvy world, handed out at a remarkably topsy-turvy Oscars, it might not be half bad.

Labor

labor

MIT Graduate Students Vote To Form Union

Max Larkin WBUR NEWS
Nearly 2,900 of over 3,800 eligible voters at MIT turned up to vote this week, with 66% putting their support behind unionization. They will be affiliated with the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE).

labor

Here’s How We Beat Amazon

An interview with Angelika Maldonado Jacobin
Amazon workers in Staten Island have achieved the most important labor victory in the United States since the 1930s. Here’s an inside account of how they did it.

labor

Our Organizing Must Match the Structure of Our Target

Sam Nelson The Forge
Winning at Amazon — truly breaking its power over workers and working-class communities — would be a bellwether of the strength of our movement. It’s a challenge we must meet if we are to bring about the changes our society desperately needs.

Friday nite video

video

Hallelujah | Leonard Cohen's Song With Lyrics for Ukraine

Shirley Șerban played with the lyrics of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah,' trying to find joy in the midst of sorrow. For all unwittingly caught in the conflict there and not forgetting victims of war and unrest around the world today.