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Gorbachev Couldn’t Reform the Soviet System

Ben Burgis Jacobin
Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev, who died last week, was a tragic figure. He tried to build a humane socialism on the rotten foundations of authoritarianism. Today, without the albatross of Stalinism, we can fight for an entirely different kind of socialism.

Taylor’s Digital Stopwatch

Robert Ovetz Dollars & Sense
What the U.S. labor movement can learn from European workers who are organizing against “algorithmic management.”

Guam: The Sharpening of the Spear’s Tip

Kenneth Gofigan Kuper Foreign Policy in Focus
Washington puts the island of Guam, but not the people of Guam, at the center of its military strategy in the Pacific.

David Moberg, 1943–2022

Peter Dreier The Nation
For over half a century his reports on the labor movement, in The Nation and elsewhere, were a model of activist journalism.