Last month, a coordinated campaign by the right-wing media and the NYPD was launched against Decolonize This Place, attempting to demonize and discredit recent actions around the MTA by reducing them to the figurehead of a "violent" Palestinian mastermind.
For feminists, this election presents a clear choice — between advancing the interests of 1 percent of women and fighting for the liberation of the rest. Bernie Sanders is on the side of the 99 percent.
Joe Biden is someone who, by virtue of the political, social, and historical forces that shaped his life, made choices and drew political lessons that not only make him ill-suited to combat Trumpism but led him to help engineer the very conditions that handed Trump victory in the first place.
How did security become the rallying cry for the US government to restrict immigration in the post-war period?
All Jacobin books are 40% off to celebrate the release of All American Nativism by Dan Denvir.
On December 8th of last year, seven year old Jakelin Caal Maquin died in Border Patrol custody. Her death came at the hands of Prevention Through Deterrence, a border security policy implemented under President Bill Clinton.
A reading list of key titles on the history of labor organizing and class struggle in the US.
On Friday, November 1st, hundreds of people jumped the turnstiles of the New York City subway system in a mass fare evasion following a raucous march through the streets of Brooklyn. The demonstration was called in reaction to an intensification of policing on the subway in the past few months. With further protests scheduled for this Friday in Harlem, Andy Battle looks at the context of the protests in the history of police and state violence in the city, and the re-enclosure of the social in New York over the last forty years.
In this extract from his review of Bhaskar Sunkara's The Socialist Manifesto, taken from the forthcoming issue of New Left Review, Benjamin Kunkel traces Sunkara's political formation and assesses his place in the new American left.
For Erik Olin Wright, our greatest chance at developing non-capitalist economic institutions may be in periods of class compromise initiated from below. The question is what it would take – or even whether or not it is possible – to rebuild such conditions in the present.
The Global Detention Project has identified more than 2,000 detention centers worldwide. For corporate powers and global elites borders have been erased, but migrants fleeing violence and economic insecurity are faced with deportation or detainment in inhumane detention centers. Todd Miller responds to the crisis at the border and exposes the contradictions in the government justifying the use of concentration camps to detain migrants.
The United States is currently ground zero in the war against migrants and refugees waged by the global police state. Yet, it is also central to the resistance to that war. Yet, this resistance has so far been driven mainly by a moral outrage and appeals to social justice. In this essay, William I. Robinson offers 5 thesis to considerations necessary to put forward an analysis of the political and structural forces that drive the war against migrants and refugees.