“Bolivia Is Not for Sale”

Olivia Arigho-Stiles Jacobin
Bolivia’s new right-wing government was forced to abandon its neoliberal reform package, pushed by executive decree, following the largest mobilization of the nation’s labor movement in at least five years.

Sven Beckert’s Chronicle of Capitalism’s Long Rise

Nelson Lichtenstein Jacobin
Capitalism is a global economic system, so a proper chronicle of its rise to dominance has to examine the entire world, as historian Sven Beckert does in his massive new book, Capitalism: A Global History.

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Allentown

Billy Joel
Songwriter Billy Joel takes us to the scene of the crime, an economic crime perpetrated on the people of Allentown, PA.

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Democrats Learned To Love Class Dealignment

Neal Meyer Jacobin
The neoliberal economic program embraced by the Clinton-era Democratic Party alienated many working-class voters. Democrats responded by reorienting their electoral strategy toward professional-class voters, accelerating workers’ departure

The Democrats’ Great Debates

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
How to contain Trump and defend democracy? What to stand for affirmatively as an opposition party? The outcome of these two debates will determine the direction and future of the Democratic party.

Trump and Musk’s War on Workers

Joseph A. McCartin Dissent Magazine - Online Article
Organized labor and its allies can and must do much more to respond to the crisis created by DOGE and the Trump administration. As the nation’s largest employer, the federal government’s labor relations policies inevitably ripple across the economy.
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