Power to Which People?
Progressives should be less concerned about how people are protesting and more concerned about who is mobilizing and what they’re fighting for.
Bhaskar Sunkara is the founding editor of Jacobin, the president of the Nation magazine, and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality.
Progressives should be less concerned about how people are protesting and more concerned about who is mobilizing and what they’re fighting for.
The new issue of Jacobin will be out in May. Here’s a sneak peek and an animated GIF to share with your friends.
Chokwe Lumumba (1947–2014).
After numerous delays, Class Action: An Activist Teacher’s Handbook is finally ready.
Seeger did good — because he was a communist, not in spite of it.
Moving forward, on a shoestring as ever before, here are some projects that we’re excited for in the coming year.
The first wave of Jacobin books will be released in early March 2014, with several more to come.
Does the Left have anything to learn from the Tea Party?
The New York City mayoral candidate talks about labor issues and more.
Our next issue will be mailed to subscribers on August 16 and released online on September 2.
Bob Fitch on the Left, the Right, and what a real labor movement would look like.
On the Italian Communist Party and the path not taken between the horrors of state socialism and the bankruptcy of modern social democracy.
Michael Harrington was wrong about a lot of things, but not quite in the way Joe Allen describes.
A new New Deal alliance would bode well for the liberal-left, but rejuvenating American liberalism will only be a means to an end.
It’s impossible to deny that institutionally the socialist left is in disarray.
What would a national core curriculum to prepare students for work in the Age of Service look like?
Margaret Thatcher’s legacy isn’t going anywhere.
Our new issue is slightly delayed, but only for the best of reasons. We’re getting bigger and better.
The Netflix series’ cynicism shouldn’t be mistaken for considered political critique.