Posts tagged: us-politics

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  Want to beat Trump? Learn from workers in Republican states

  Americans in ‘conservative’ states are leading the fight for public education, healthcare and social services.

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  Why Oakland’s Striking Teachers Won

  Though educators did not achieve all their demands, Oakland’s teachers strike transformed the city, won important gains, and empowered educators to take on the billionaire education privatizers.

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  Gentrification Is a Feature, Not a Bug, of Capitalist Urban Planning

  Capitalists are already using the state to reshape our cities — we need to wield it in a radically different way to serve the interests of working people.

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  What the LA Teachers Won, and How They Won It

  Through their historic strike, Los Angeles teachers have taught working people across the country how to fight back and win.

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  5 Book Plan: Non-Fascist Living

  Natasha Lennard, author of Being Numerous, selects five books that shaped her thinking on fascism permeating life under capitalism.

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  The Trump Years and How They Befell Us

  In American Breakdown, David Bromwich connects the hollowing out of American democracy and the rise of Trump to decades of imperialism, neoliberal policies, and a strengthening of executive power.

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  What It Means to be "Great" on a Planet Going Down

  Greenhouse effect, global warming, climate change, climate disruption. Think of the succession of words we’ve used to describe the gradual onset of catastrophe and you see at once how inadequate words can be.

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  Eric Blanc Interviewed on Jacobin's The Vast Majority

  Two interviews with Eric Blanc on the importance of rank and file organizing in the wave of teachers strikes.

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  The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics

  An indispensable window into the changing shape of the American working class and American politics.

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  Socialist Strategy and the Capitalist Democratic State

  How we understand the capitalist state effects how we think about power and what a socialist transition would mean. In this article, Stephen Maher and Rafael Khachaturian argue that the left in the US needs to move beyond both the Leninist and the social democratic conceptions of the state in order to develop a democratic socialist politics for the 21st century.

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  Jacobin Bookshelf

  The Jacobin series is back! To celebrate, we're offering 40% off the entire series through Sunday, January 26th

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  White Privilege, White Advantage, White and Human Misery

  Debates continue to rage across the political spectrum on the reality, or not, of white privilege. In this article, David Roediger argues that it is only by admitting both the reality of white advantage whilst also understanding the immense poverty and desperation of many poor white Americans, can we win in the struggle for a more humane society.