We spoke to Ramesh Srinivasan, Bernie Sanders campaign surrogate and author of a new book on big tech companies, community-driven alternatives, and the battle for the future of the internet. | Continue reading
The $47 billion WeWork implosion is proof that the rich are the biggest suckers of all. | Continue reading
Bill Gates has managed to craft a reputation as a billionaire with a social conscience. But his recent comments on proposals for a wealth tax leave no room for doubt about whose side he’s on. | Continue reading
Microsoft just won a massive contract from the Defense Department, showing how nationalism, militarism, and corporate power intermingle in the tech industry. Our response must be to unite tech workers across borders — and reject the jingoism that divides us. | Continue reading
Private monopolies are rightly criticized for being inefficient and unaccountable. But public monopolies are a different story — we should loudly and proudly say that democratically controlled public monopolies are a positive good. | Continue reading
Employers are leveraging their power over workers to sway employees’ votes. | Continue reading
Medicare for All doesn’t just provide everyone with the care they need, free of charge. It’s also a potent anti-poverty program, reducing poverty by over 20 percent and increasing poor people’s incomes by 29 percent. | Continue reading
The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine. | Continue reading
Uber and the Kochs aren't often mentioned in the same sentence. But the rideshare company has joined the far-right billionaire-funded operation on a libertarian crusade to destroy public transit. | Continue reading
How should we assess the legacy of Leon Trotsky? | Continue reading
Quillette ran a hit piece on the DSA by Queens construction worker and | Continue reading
When MSNBC legal analyst Mimi Rocah said that Bernie Sanders made her skin crawl, she was just sticking to the company line. | Continue reading
Comparing the treatment of Jeffrey Epstein to Ramsey Orta, the man who filmed Eric Garner's murder, reveals the grotesque inequality at the heart of American society. There’s one set of rules for the rich, and an entirely different set for the poor. | Continue reading
Silicon Valley's boosters say it's an innovative, meritocratic wonderland that rewards brilliant visionaries and just might save the world. That's nonsense. | Continue reading
Today, Amazon warehouse workers in Shakopee, Minnesota are launching a six-hour strike on Prime Day, the company’s biggest shopping event of the year. If successful, they could ignite similar actions across the country — and make Jeff Bezos really start to worry about worker powe … | Continue reading
Britain's wartime Home Guard is immortalized in popular culture — but the socialists who shaped it are forgotten. | Continue reading
Steve Bannon sees video games as a natural terrain for the far right. But between unionizing game workers and increasingly political games, there's room for the socialist left in gaming, too. | Continue reading
Israeli tech companies aren't just working on new apps for taxis or food delivery — they're also hacking human rights activists' WhatsApps and creating fake social media accounts to undermine democracy. | Continue reading
Advertisers thrive on perpetuating a system that is ravaging the planet. We can do without them — and a lot of the junk they’re trying to sell us. | Continue reading
Advertisers thrive on perpetuating a system that is ravaging the planet. We can do without them — and a lot of the junk they’re trying to sell us. | Continue reading
Tech companies are getting into the business of making cities. We need to stop Silicon Valley social engineering before things get even worse. | Continue reading
A glance at the company's recently released prospectus reveals the truth about Uber: it’s a scam. | Continue reading
Grassroots organizing has pushed the Green New Deal from a leftist pipe dream to the center of US politics in just a few months. That activist energy is key to ensuring strong climate legislation doesn't get watered down on its way to implementation. | Continue reading
Mayors, state representatives, the presidency, Congress: in 2020, democratic socialists should run candidates at every level across the country. | Continue reading
“Don’t start a family — it’s bad for the planet.” The latest bad take on climate change forgets one little thing: whether or not you have a kid, the fossil fuel industry will still be there. | Continue reading
The United States is commonly thought of as a low-tax country. But workers effectively pay some of the highest taxes in the developed world — without getting a decent welfare state in return. | Continue reading
One of the most common myths about the US health system is that if you like your insurance, you can keep it. But millions of people are thrown off their employer-based coverage every year — so the only solution is Medicare for All. | Continue reading
In what may be the first coordinated strike at a US Amazon facility, fifty Somali-American workers walked off the job in Minnesota recently to protest work speedups. And organizers say it won’t be the last strike. | Continue reading
Big tech companies are spending millions to get young people into coding and STEM — not out of altruism, but to create a future supply of cheap labor. | Continue reading
The US cancer mortality rate is finally falling. But the gap in outcomes between the rich and the poor is actually widening — another reason why we need Medicare for All. | Continue reading
Liberals believe in a society ordered like a restaurant: some eat, some serve, and there is a manager to keep it all going. | Continue reading
Big tech companies are spending millions to get young people into coding and STEM — not out of altruism, but to create a future supply of cheap labor. | Continue reading
Big tech companies are spending millions to get young people into coding and STEM — not out of altruism, but to create a future supply of cheap labor. | Continue reading
A federal judge’s ruling against Obamacare shows yet again that the only solution is Medicare for All. | Continue reading
Contemporary liberals are temperamentally conservative — and what they want to conserve is a morally bankrupt political order. | Continue reading
The disastrous fires in California expose the absurdity of a system that ignores nature, flouts climate change, and builds entire towns that will inevitably burn. | Continue reading
The Movement for Black Lives has started turning to foundations for funding. But the history of the Black Power movement offers a cautionary tale about the warping effects of liberal philanthropy’s soft power. | Continue reading
Forgiving student debt would benefit more than just the wealthy — but that doesn't mean we should be completely on board. | Continue reading
The migrant caravan is full of people fleeing a world of inequality and violence that US elites helped create. We can't turn our backs on them. | Continue reading
Silicon Valley's boosters say it's an innovative, meritocratic wonderland that rewards brilliant visionaries and just might save the world. That's nonsense. | Continue reading
Despite their often-high salaries, tech workers are workers. And like any other kind of worker, to advocate for their interests on the job, they need to get organized. | Continue reading
Informational capitalism has turned the Internet into a means of social control. | Continue reading
The nineteenth-century bourgeoisie used morality to assert class dominance — something elites still do today. | Continue reading
Meet the Silicon Valley “disruptors” who want to teach your kids. | Continue reading
Five decades since the craze for Brutalism, most of the discussion about these buildings is about tearing them down. But the radical social vision that drove their rise has largely been forgotten. | Continue reading
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John Rawls is remembered as one of the twentieth century’s preeminent liberal philosophers. But by the end of his life, he was sharply critical of capitalism. | Continue reading