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May Day will be a national demonstration that will polarize today’s struggle not along resentful, racist lines of immigrant vs. “native”, but along the class-struggle lines of workers vs. billionaires.

Here, there and everywhere

I’ve been watching Mark Carney for a long time and there's a few things you should know about this man, especially as the U.S. president tries to drag the world back onto the dead-end street of fossil fuels.

In 2024, the nations of the world spent a record $2.72 trillion on expanding their vast military strength, an increase of 9.4 percent from the previous year. It was the tenth year of consecutive spending increases and the steepest increase in 30 yrs.

Rendering collective bargaining inapplicable to the vast majority of federal workers, combined with the administration’s other attacks on the civil service, would leave the federal workforce in its weakest position in a century.

The Trump administration is a serious threat to democracy. They’re also laughably incompetent. But the result is no laughing matter.

Jacobin sat down with the prolific muckraking filmmaker Alex Gibney to discuss his new documentary The Dark Money Game, on the terrifying ramifications of Citizens United and how it’s empowered the same oligarchy now unleashed by the Trump administra

A future with (an even more) controlled press

Deadly and Dangerous, Imperialism Is, Indeed, a Paper Tiger (1975), Turning Ugly Concrete Pillars Into Things of Beauty (1970), When the War Came Home, Students Paid the Price (1970), An Anti-Racist Newspaper Celebrates Its 120th Birthday (1905)

From ‘wellness farms’ to expanded involuntary commitment policies, the US is embracing psychiatric incarceration under the guise of compassion