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The Momentous Class Struggle of the German Peasants’ War

Daniel Colligan Jacobin
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War, the largest European uprising before the French Revolution, in which peasants seized upon the radical implications of Martin Luther’s theology to challenge a hierarchical social order

The Anti-Constitutional Attack on Birthright Citizenship

Evan D. Bernick Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project
Looking back at our constitutional history to capture Trump's order’s viciousness. Doing so reveals that the order is not merely unconstitutional, but anti-constitutional.

Resistance Is Alive and Well in the United States

Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman, Soha Hammam Waging Nonviolence
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches of 2017, but research shows they are far more numerous and frequent — while also shifting to more powerful forms of resistance.

Trump’s Antisocial State

Melinda Cooper Dissent Magazine
The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

Constitutional Collapse

Aziz Rana Sidecar, blog of New Left Review
Trump/Musk are pursuing the collapse of the American constitutional model, fundamentally altering the terrain on which the US left operates, requiring an oppositional politics the country has not seen since the time of FDR.

Severance Is an Indictment of Workplace Hell

Eileen Jones Jacobin
Apple’s dystopian workplace thriller Severance entered its second season as a genuine cultural phenomenon. With its brutal satire of the American corporate structure, it’s easy to see why.

Let Workers Lead

Jane Slaughter Jacobin
The “worker-to-worker” organizing model adopted by many of the most dynamic unions and campaigns in the country has enormous promise for revitalizing labor — in large part because it puts workers themselves in the drivers’ seat.