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  Israel imprisoned Khalida Jarrar, a historic leader of the Palestinian left, five times, almost always without charge or trial. She tells Jacobin about how women prisoners copied a library by hand and how Israeli censors never let in Antonio Gramsci. https://jacobin.com/2026/10/jarrar-palestine-prison-education-elections

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  Israel’s ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon and Gaza has reached a scale unseen since the Nakba. The history of Israel’s offensives shows how depopulation is soon followed by annexation. https://jacobin.com/2026/10/israel-nakba-gaza-lebanon-ethnic-cleansing

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  Right-wing accounts of France’s protests have widely cast them as an Islamist plot. It’s a clear attempt to reframe social conflict as a clash of civilizations, and to justify a militarized response. https://jacobin.com/2026/10/france-student-protests-islamist-panic

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  Biden administration officials always knew that the US had the power to restrain Israel if it wanted to. They chose not to use that power as Israeli forces laid waste to Gaza and doctored their own reports so the flow of arms to Israel could continue: https://jacobin.com/2026/10/biden-israel-gaza-genocide-blinken-mcgurk

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  Charles Manson became a hero for an important section of America’s white power movement during his years in prison. One of the leading prophets of violent white supremacism compared Manson to Adolf Hitler — and he meant this as high praise: https://jacobin.com/2026/10/manson-mason-racism-neo-nazis

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  Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is a massive hit — and nearly everyone on the Right, from Elon Musk to the Daily Wire, is furious. Because what 21st-century conservatives really want is a profound cheapening of the Western civilization they claim to revere. https://jacobin.com/2026/07/odyssey-myth-online-right-culture-war

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  Outrage at US complicity in the war on Gaza has pushed many Americans to think about international politics for the first time. The Left should seize this moment to push its vision of how the global order should run. https://jacobin.com/2026/07/left-foreign-policy-war-climate-aid

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  Germany’s socialist party Die Linke came first in Sunday’s Berlin election with a huge vote among young Berliners and the multiethnic working class. Now its lead candidate, @ElifEralpBerlin, hopes to become Berlin’s new mayor. https://jacobin.com/2026/09/berlin-die-linke-afd-rents

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  Recent weeks have seen a flurry of discussion over potential artificial intelligence doomsday scenarios. We shouldn’t forget that AI is already killing people, as it is increasingly used to direct weapons systems with minimal human oversight. https://jacobin.com/2026/09/warfare-ai-autonomous-weapons-ethics

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  The Democratic establishment’s hysteria over the Democratic Socialists of America’s organizing methods has it exactly backward: the Democratic Party has almost no ability to democratically organize voters, while DSA is reviving grassroots campaigning. https://jacobin.com/2026/08/democrats-dsa-democracy-grassroots-campaigns

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  India’s “Cockroach” youth movement has now forced the resignation of the country’s education minister. What began as a single-issue protest mobilization has broadened into one of the biggest challenges Narendra Modi has faced in power. https://jacobin.com/2026/07/india-cockroach-protests-education-democracy

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  Right-wing and centrist pundits, and even House Speaker Mike Johnson, have rushed to denounce the Democratic Socialists of America’s new “Workers Deserve More” platform. But the platform’s central insights are hard to dispute. https://jacobin.com/2026/07/dsa-platform-socialism-democracy

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  Being disastrously wrong about virtually every aspect of the Iran war has not stopped an army of hawkish pundits from continuing to try to shape US policy on the matter. From Ben Shapiro to Mark Dubowitz, here are eight of the wrongest. https://jacobin.com/2026/07/iran-war-pundits-fox-trump

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  Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum passed major reform in 2024 recognizing the country’s 1.2 million app-based workers as employees. But app workers say the law’s benefits are too difficult to access, thanks to carveouts demanded by the app companies: http://jacobin.com/2026/06/app-gig-workers-mexico-unta

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  Democratic Socialists of America–backed challengers for Congress have already notched three wins in primary elections this year. In Colorado’s elections tomorrow, @MelatKirosCO is hoping to join the growing bloc of socialists on Capitol Hill. http://jacobin.com/2026/06/melat-kiros-congress-colorado

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  Over 50% of the profits from recent oil supply shocks went to the top 1% of Americans. The bottom half received just 1%. The Iran war likely triggered another massive transfer to the very richest. https://jacobin.com/2026/06/iran-oil-profits-supply-shocks-wealth-inequality

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  The AI build-out depends on gas turbines and power transformers made by a handful of workers at a handful of plants in the US South. That bottleneck is a vulnerability — and a rare opportunity for labor to exercise real power over the tech giants.https://jacobin.com/2026/05/workers-ai-power-plants-south

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  Peter Linebaugh has spent five decades researching the destruction of the commons. In this interview, he explains why capitalism required violent expropriation and the removal of long-held customary rights to shared land and resources. https://jacobin.com/2026/05/commons-enclosure-working-class-history

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  Sergey Brin’s family fled Soviet authoritarianism, an experience he’s now invoking to portray a proposed wealth tax as Soviet-style tyranny. Ironically this sort of rhetoric is more likely to bring the US closer to today’s Russia: an unabashed oligarchy. https://jacobin.com/2026/05/authoritarianism-wealth-tax-soviet-brin

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  In recent months, the Trump administration has used shock interventions to grab hold of strategic resources. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, it’s pursued a quieter approach, but one squarely directed at US control of the country’s mineral wealth. https://jacobin.com/2026/05/drc-congo-mining-minerals-trump

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  Happy International Workers’ Day! To kick it off, here’s a thread of #MayDay posters from around the world. Let's start in Austria, with this poster from 1891.

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  The rich should get free child care.

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  Since 2024, a growing rift has emerged in the Democratic Party over whether to better coordinate with billionaire-backed political networks to match Republicans. Now this clash between populists and party elites is no longer quiet. http://jacobin.com/2026/04/democrats-billionaires-party-elites-populists

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  An overwhelmingly immigrant workforce in Colorado — speaking over 50 languages — says it won its strike at the largest meatpacking company in the world, striking a blow against an industry that has colluded to suppress wages and raise consumer prices. http://jacobin.com/2026/04/meatpacking-strike-wages-workers-unions

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  Socialism cannot mean merely managing capitalism more fairly. It must point toward a society where survival is no longer contingent on the market — and where democracy extends into the economy itself. http://jacobin.com/2026/04/socialism-democracy-capitalism-market-economy

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  Two former United Auto Workers organizers make the case for what they call a “leadership density” union organizing model. That model was central to recent UAW breakthroughs, and we should accept no substitutes in similar campaigns.https://jacobin.com/2026/04/labor-strategy-uaw-leadership-auto

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  Last month, Vietnam marked the 58th anniversary of the Mỹ Lai massacre, when US soldiers killed hundreds of defenseless civilians. US public memory largely ignores the history of atrocities like Mỹ Lai, making it easier to repeat them in the future.https://jacobin.com/2026/04/my-lai-vietnam-war-anniversary

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  Working-class economic populism is necessary for both Democrats’ electoral success and for the defense of democracy itself. Not many Democrats since FDR have recognized this, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is one of the few who does. http://jacobin.com/2026/02/aoc-fdr-economic-populism-democracy

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  Recent research makes the case that a federal jobs guarantee provides help in the form that working-class people actually want — a chance to earn a living and contribute to something larger than themselves: http://jacobin.com/2026/04/federal-jobs-guarantee-supermajority-support

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  Bernie Sanders and @AOC have proposed a bill that would put a moratorium on new AI data centers until the government establishes oversight procedures and legal safeguards to ensure “the safety and prosperity of the American people.”https://jacobin.com/2026/04/bernie-aoc-artificial-intelligence-regulation