Britain’s Housing Casino

International speculators are playing games with our housing market — and we’re the ones losing. | Continue reading


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How to Be an Anticapitalist Today

Anticapitalism isn't simply a moral stance against injustice — it's about building an alternative. | Continue reading


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US Workers Are Striking Again

Halfway through the year, the number of large strikes in the United States is at the highest level in decades. | Continue reading


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Medicalizing Society

The rise of psychiatry was funded by America’s Gilded Age industrialists. Their aim: to cast society’s ills as problems of individual | Continue reading


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In Defense of Air-Conditioning

Opposition to air-conditioning is just another form of austerity politics. Nothing's too good for the working class — especially not freedom from the heat. | Continue reading


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Medicare for All and Free College Tuition Are Wildly Popular Policies

New polling shows that socialists' demands like Medicare for All and free college tuition are overwhelmingly popular. We can’t stop now. | Continue reading


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Don’t the Rich Deserve to Keep Their Money? (2016)

Wealth is socially created — redistribution just allows more people to enjoy the fruits of their labor. | Continue reading


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Grounding Pinochet

For more than four years, Pinochet’s air force was paralyzed by 3,000 Scottish workers who refused to service its planes. | Continue reading


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The High-Tech Poorhouse

When algorithms are introduced into public assistance programs, the effects are rarely good for poor and working-class beneficiaries. | Continue reading


@jacobinmag.com | 5 years ago

How not to talk about climate change

The New York Times Magazine claims in a blockbuster new article that democracy and human nature are to blame for the climate crisis. They're wrong. | Continue reading


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Even Libertarians Admit Medicare for All Would Save Trillions

A new study from a libertarian think tank admits that Medicare for All would save a whopping $2 trillion. | Continue reading


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Costs of medicare for all

A new study from a libertarian think tank admits that Medicare for All would save a whopping $2 trillion. | Continue reading


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The Return of the Super-Elite

New research reveals inequality levels not seen in a century — and it shows where these new super-elites live, too. | Continue reading


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The Rise of Bullshit Jobs

A bullshit job is a job which is so pointless that even the person doing the job secretly believes that it shouldn’t exist. And there are more now than ever. | Continue reading


@jacobinmag.com | 5 years ago

The Rise of Bullshit Jobs

A bullshit job is a job which is so pointless that even the person doing the job secretly believes that it shouldn’t exist. And there are more now than ever. | Continue reading


@jacobinmag.com | 5 years ago

Why the rich love Burning Man (2015)

Burning Man became a festival that rich libertarians love because it never had a radical critique at its core. | Continue reading


@jacobinmag.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft and the Yeoman Coders

Microsoft’s purchase of Github is the latest chapter in capitalism’s oldest story: the absorption of artisan labor into the circuits of capital. | Continue reading


@jacobinmag.com | 5 years ago

Tech Workers versus the Pentagon

Workers at Google just scored an impressive victory against US militarism. | Continue reading


@jacobinmag.com | 5 years ago

Tech Workers versus the Pentagon

Workers at Google just scored an impressive victory against US militarism. | Continue reading


@jacobinmag.com | 5 years ago

(Not) Born This Way – Richard Lewontin

There's nothing natural or innate about inequality — but a long history of pseudo-science will tell you there is. | Continue reading


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Twenty-first century Victorians

The nineteenth-century bourgeoisie used morality to assert class dominance — something elites still do today. | Continue reading


@jacobinmag.com | 5 years ago

Viktor Orbán versus the Enlightenment

In Viktor Orbán's Hungary, anti-immigrant paranoia reigns and basic democratic rights are under assault. | Continue reading


@jacobinmag.com | 5 years ago

Today is Our Day

This May Day, we should celebrate the historic triumphs of the labor movement and the struggles to come. | Continue reading


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