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Mayor Zohran Mamdani demands the Trump administration remove ICE from New York City and reiterates his call to abolish the agency.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 16h

Revolutionary Che Guevara was executed on this day in 1967. “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice than you are a comrade of mine.”

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer was born on this day in 1917. “Nobody's free until everybody's free.”

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sylvia Pankhurst, British communist and leading figure in the country's struggle for women’s suffrage, died on this day in 1960.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this day in 1940, Marxist philosopher Walter Benjamin died while attempting to flee occupying Nazi forces. Benjamin was one of the most influential cultural theorists of the last century, and his Marxist commitments run right through his dazzling intellectual legacy.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The first volume of Karl Marx's “Capital: Critique of Political Economy” was on this day in 1867.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Anti-apartheid martyr Steve Biko was killed by South Africa's apartheid government on this day in 1977. “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A declining empire can grow more violent, not less. From Iran to Cuba and Venezuela, Trump has made US power more brazen — but the system runs deeper than one president. Our fall issue examines “precision warfare,” sanctions, NATO, and dollar power: jacobin.com/issue/the-new-empire

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy birthday, Bernie Sanders, a leader who took socialism out of the margins and into the American mainstream for the first time in generations. His contributions to the struggle for a better world are undeniable.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Socialist leader Salvador Allende became Chile’s president on this day in 1970. Allende’s election inaugurated a unique experiment in radical democracy that was cut short by Augusto Pinochet’s brutal US-backed coup.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Happy birthday to Black Panther Party deputy chairman and socialist Fred Hampton. “You can kill a revolutionary, but you can never kill the revolution.”

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place 63 years ago today.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Emmett Till was abducted and brutally lynched on this day in 1955. An all-white, all-male jury declined to indict the 14-year old's two killers for their crimes.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Dublin Lockout of 1913 began on this day 113 years ago. More than 20,000 workers went on strike for nearly four months, demanding safer working conditions and the right to unionize.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One of the most stunning episodes in the US’ violent history of class warfare began on this day in 1921. 20,000 armed West Virginia coal miners marched on the coal bosses and were met with bombs and submachine guns in the Battle of Blair Mountain.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Historian and anti-war activist Howard Zinn was born on this day in 1922.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Northern Ireland's first civil rights march was held on this day in 1968.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

On this day in 1970, farmworkers in California began the Salad Bowl strike — the largest of its kind in US history.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Grunwick strike, led by immigrant workers in London for union recognition.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Leon Trotsky was assassinated on this day in 1940, in Mexico City. His legacy continues to inspire socialist thought — and heated debates — around the world.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

On this day in 1936, socialist poet Federico García Lorca was executed by fascist forces in Spain.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Scottish trade unionist, socialist, and Labour Party founder Keir Hardie was born on this day in 1856. “Socialism stood for the divinity of the human race and as such detested war and all preparations leading to war.”

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan on this day 81 years ago.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The bodies of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner were found on this day in 1964. The trio was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

James Baldwin was born on this day in 1924. Baldwin was many things: a brilliant writer, a trenchant social critic, a dogged activist. He was also an unapologetic radical.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Mahmoud Khalil is suing Donald Trump. This Friday, he joins the Jacobin Show to tell us why: youtube.com/live/ErjbDq-7pQE

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The Cuban Revolution began on this day 73 years ago. The Revolution’s victory belonged not just to its leaders, but also to the many working people who fought for its success.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The Sandinistas, a Nicaraguan revolutionary group that organized to overthrow the brutal US-backed Somoza dictatorship, were founded on this day in 1961.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The cohosts of F–king Cancelled say the quiet part out loud: a left that condemns internal dissent is a dead end for democracy. 📰 Read: jacobin.com/2026/07/cancel-culture-trauma-identity-democracy

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The US-led world order is breaking down in the Strait of Hormuz, argues @profwolff.bsky.social. What comes next depends on whether the Left has an answer: jacobin.com/2026/07/american-empire-capitalism-crisis-socialism

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Helen Keller was born on this day in 1880. "How did I become a Socialist? By reading."

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

America's political institutions were engineered to protect elite wealth and block majorities. How did we end up here? For the 250th anniversary of America, our summer issue takes aim at the US's patriotic mythology. Out now. Get yours below 👇

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Anti-imperialist scholar and activist Walter Rodney was killed on this day in 1980. "By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?"

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Anthony Bourdain died on this day eight years ago. He never minced words, and he knew which side he was on.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Abolitionist Sojourner Truth delivered her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech to the 1851 Women's Rights Convention on this day. The speech challenges discrimination on the basis of race, gender, and intellectual ability, and lays bare the cruelty of slavery.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Harvey Milk, LGBT pioneer, was born on this day in 1930. "I have tasted freedom. I will not give up that which I have tasted."

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Radical abolitionist John Brown was born on this day in 1800. “I acknowledge no master in human form.”

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

French revolutionary and Jacobin Maximilien Robespierre was born on this day in 1758. “How long will the despots' fury be called justice, and the people's justice barbarism or rebellion?”

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Happy birthday, Karl Marx! Marx was born on this day 208 years ago. His work helps us not only understand capitalism but fight for a world free of exploitation and domination.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

On this day in 1970 Ohio state troopers opened fire on unarmed students protesting the Vietnam war in Kent State University. Four were killed, nine others seriously wounded.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The Haymarket affair saw a peaceful labor demonstration in Chicago in support of an eight-hour workday bombed and four anarchists put to death on this day in 1886.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Socialist Pete Seeger, widely acknowledged to be one of America’s greatest folk singers, was born on this day in 1919.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Brazilian educator Paulo Freire died on this day in 1997. “To alienate people from their own decision-making is to change them into objects.”

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

In celebration of May Day, we’re offering one-year digital subscriptions for just $1 and print ones for $10. Subscribers get four beautiful issues of our magazine and access to our entire back catalog: jacobin.com/subscribe/?type=personal&level=standard-digital&code=MAYDAY2026

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Bernie Sanders announced his first run for president 11 years ago today, bringing socialism from the fringes of American discourse to the political forefront.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

On this day in 1967, Muhammad Ali refused army induction to serve in the Vietnam War.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Renowned Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci died on this day in 1937.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

San Francisco tenants blockaded Google buses and shamed tech-worker landlords. It worked — for a while. A new book asks what comes next as private equity replaces individual speculators: jacobin.com/2026/04/san-francisco-housing-organizing-tech

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Despite ample evidence that the rich are staying put so far, warnings of an apocalyptic exodus of wealth have persisted and even intensified in the first months of Zohran Mamdani's term as mayor of New York City: jacobin.com/2026/04/mamdani-nyc-wealthy-corporate-flight

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

To overcome capitalist realism, socialism must be more than a protest It must offer a vision of a democratic economy beyond class rule — and a path to reach it: jacobin.com/2026/04/socialism-democracy-capitalism-market-economy

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