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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2h
After years of attempting unionization campaigns in the tech industry, two organizers argue that tech workers need to seek new sources of power on the job and craft new playbooks for winning unions.
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Tech Workers’ Leverage Over Employers Is Shifting
Just a few years ago, tech workers held enormous leverage over their employers. That power has eroded recently, especially because of AI. Tech workers can find new sources of leverage, but only through waging struggles at the workplace.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 3h
Centrists everywhere may want to coronate Mark Carney as the "leader of the free world.” But Lula, despite his recent election woes, still offers a democratic vision attuned to people’s needs, while Carney offers little more than neoliberalism redux.
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Mark Carney Isn’t the “Leader of the Free World.” Lula Is.
Newspapers around the world have anointed Canada’s prime minister the new “leader of the free world.” But Lula links democracy to economic equality and solidarity, while Mark Carney revives the technocratic neoliberalism that helped create its crisis.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 4h
Leftists are right to be skeptical of AI hype. The technology has pushed advances in the sciences and could even help solve the climate crisis. But it is controlled by a small section of the tech elite who have little interest in the public good.
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Could AI Fix Climate Change? Probably Not Under Capitalism.
In an interview with Ezra Klein, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang floated the possibility that AI might offer a solution to the climate crisis. That would require taking AI under public control.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 5h
Scenes of clashes with police have drawn establishment condemnations of high schooler protests in France. But much of French society sympathizes with students railing against a dismally underresourced education system.
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High School Protests Have French Establishment on the Ropes
The start of the school year drew attention to disastrously dilapidated classrooms in the Paris suburbs. Rather than listen to students’ complaints, the government has responded with violent repression.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 6h
The Left has become more politically active without becoming more powerful. Writing in Jacobin, Anton Jäger defends the arguments he advanced in “Hyperpolitics” and asks what today’s Left can learn from last century’s socialist and communist parties.
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What Comes After Hyperpolitics?
The arguments of Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics, which first appeared in Jacobin, sparked debate across the political spectrum. Here he responds to critics and explores how a “strategy of patience” could help the Left escape its hyperpolitical impasse.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 7h
Just a few years ago, tech workers held enormous leverage over their employers. That power has eroded recently, especially because of AI. Tech workers can find new sources of leverage, but only through waging struggles at the workplace.
jacobin.com
Tech Workers’ Leverage Over Employers Is Shifting
Just a few years ago, tech workers held enormous leverage over their employers. That power has eroded recently, especially because of AI. Tech workers can find new sources of leverage, but only through waging struggles at the workplace.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 8h
Newspapers around the world have anointed Canada’s prime minister the new “leader of the free world.” But Lula links democracy to economic equality and solidarity, while Mark Carney revives the technocratic neoliberalism that helped create its crisis.
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Mark Carney Isn’t the “Leader of the Free World.” Lula Is.
Newspapers around the world have anointed Canada’s prime minister the new “leader of the free world.” But Lula links democracy to economic equality and solidarity, while Mark Carney revives the technocratic neoliberalism that helped create its crisis.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 9h
Annual Labour conferences have often been a stage for clashes between ordinary members and more right-wing MPs. The first conference under Andy Burnham struck a more consensual note, but the new prime minister’s progressive vibe remains ill-defined.
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Andy Burnham’s Labour Allows the Left to Breathe, a Little
The first Labour conference under new leader Andy Burnham saw a rhetorical turn away from his predecessor’s austerian and managerial approach. Burnham has regained trade unions’ confidence, but his real policy shifts have been cautious.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 11h
In an interview with Ezra Klein, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang floated the possibility that AI might offer a solution to the climate crisis. That would require taking AI under public control.
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Could AI Fix Climate Change? Probably Not Under Capitalism.
In an interview with Ezra Klein, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang floated the possibility that AI might offer a solution to the climate crisis. That would require taking AI under public control.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 12h
The start of the school year drew attention to disastrously dilapidated classrooms in the Paris suburbs. Rather than listen to students’ complaints, the government has responded with violent repression.
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High School Protests Have French Establishment on the Ropes
The start of the school year drew attention to disastrously dilapidated classrooms in the Paris suburbs. Rather than listen to students’ complaints, the government has responded with violent repression.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 12h
The arguments of Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics, which first appeared in Jacobin, sparked debate across the political spectrum. Here he responds to critics and explores how a “strategy of patience” could help the Left escape its hyperpolitical impasse.
jacobin.com
What Comes After Hyperpolitics?
The arguments of Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics, which first appeared in Jacobin, sparked debate across the political spectrum. Here he responds to critics and explores how a “strategy of patience” could help the Left escape its hyperpolitical impasse.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 13h
The first Labour conference under new leader Andy Burnham saw a rhetorical turn away from his predecessor’s austerian and managerial approach. Burnham has regained trade unions’ confidence, but his real policy shifts have been cautious.
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Andy Burnham’s Labour Allows the Left to Breathe, a Little
The first Labour conference under new leader Andy Burnham saw a rhetorical turn away from his predecessor’s austerian and managerial approach. Burnham has regained trade unions’ confidence, but his real policy shifts have been cautious.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 22h
Higher interest rates tend to stop or slow inflation by curtailing employment, pushing wages down, and thereby reducing inflation. But it is hard to blame wages for the current inflation.
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Interest Rate Increases Are About Disciplining Labor
The major factors bringing about the current, continuing inflation are unlikely to be much affected by the Fed’s recent interest rate increases. But those increases weaken labor’s bargaining power, so Washington welcomes them anyway.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 23h
Why did Marxism flourish in the early 20th century and again in the 1960s and ’70s? Vivek Chibber argues that the answer lies in the strength of the labor movement.
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What Makes Somebody a Marxist?
Marxism is a social theory about how the world works, and how to change it. Anyone committed to understanding and changing the world should be a Marxist.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There has been a virulent backlash in the British media against the Green Party since its conference voted to brand Zionism as a racist ideology. Nobody has seen fit to ask any Palestinians what they think about Zionism and what it has meant for them.
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The European Green Party Attacks Solidarity With Palestine
The European Green Party rushed to condemn the Greens of England and Wales when they voted to support a single democratic state in Palestine. It has never condemned the German Greens for supporting Israel’s genocidal violence against the Palestinians.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Two organizers who helped build the tech worker movement ask why its victories proved so difficult to turn into lasting power.
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Reckoning With the Failures of Tech Worker Organizing
Two organizers who helped build the tech worker movement ask why its victories proved so difficult to turn into lasting power.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Lenin demolished Karl Kautsky’s theory of “ultra-imperialism.” But did US hegemony later prove that capitalist powers can unite to exploit the world? Donald Parkinson revisits the debate.
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Was Karl Kautsky Right About Ultra-Imperialism?
Publishing a theory of capitalist peace six weeks into World War I was catastrophic timing. The problem is that the post-war order looked a great deal like what Karl Kautsky described.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump’s coalition is crumbling. Can the Left seize the opportunity? The good news is that voters across the class divide have been converging on economic views, even as many real social and cultural differences remain.
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As Trump’s Coalition Breaks, Can the Left Pick Up the Pieces?
Donald Trump won in 2024 by casting billionaires and blue-collar workers as allies against a liberal professional elite. As working-class voters lose faith in him, the Left has a chance to consolidate support around economic populism.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Spanish Minister Pablo Bustinduy to Congress: “The right to housing in this country will prevail above the interests of the rentier class you represent.”
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“The Spanish People Will Remember Who Betrayed Them”
Echoing the outrage of housing protesters, Minister Pablo Bustinduy admonished Spanish politicians for betraying the working class in favor of rentiers. The legislature’s rejection of two vital housing decrees led PM Pedro Sánchez to call snap elections.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Michael Moore was fired from Mother Jones after a fight over an article on the US-backed Contras. His settlement helped finance “Roger & Me.”
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Getting Fired from Mother Jones Made Michael Moore
In 1986, Michael Moore didn’t want to run Paul Berman’s article on Nicaragua. Getting pushed out of Mother Jones turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to his career.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Pentagon spends more than a trillion dollars a year while contractors profit from weapons that fail. Hank Kennedy argues it is time for a new Nye Committee.
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Congress Must Investigate War Profiteers Once Again
Ninety years after the original Nye Committee exposed the arms industry’s corruption, the Pentagon and its contractors are bigger, richer, and more unaccountable than ever.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The major factors bringing about the current, continuing inflation are unlikely to be much affected by the Fed’s recent interest rate increases. But those increases weaken labor’s bargaining power, so Washington welcomes them anyway.
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Interest Rate Increases Are About Disciplining Labor
The major factors bringing about the current, continuing inflation are unlikely to be much affected by the Fed’s recent interest rate increases. But those increases weaken labor’s bargaining power, so Washington welcomes them anyway.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Marxism is a social theory about how the world works, and how to change it. Anyone committed to understanding and changing the world should be a Marxist.
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What Makes Somebody a Marxist?
Marxism is a social theory about how the world works, and how to change it. Anyone committed to understanding and changing the world should be a Marxist.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The European Green Party rushed to condemn the Greens of England and Wales when they voted to support a single democratic state in Palestine. It has never condemned the German Greens for supporting Israel’s genocidal violence against the Palestinians.
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The European Green Party Attacks Solidarity With Palestine
The European Green Party rushed to condemn the Greens of England and Wales when they voted to support a single democratic state in Palestine. It has never condemned the German Greens for supporting Israel’s genocidal violence against the Palestinians.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Publishing a theory of capitalist peace six weeks into World War I was catastrophic timing. The problem is that the post-war order looked a great deal like what Karl Kautsky described.
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Was Karl Kautsky Right About Ultra-Imperialism?
Publishing a theory of capitalist peace six weeks into World War I was catastrophic timing. The problem is that the post-war order looked a great deal like what Karl Kautsky described.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Donald Trump won in 2024 by casting billionaires and blue-collar workers as allies against a liberal professional elite. As working-class voters lose faith in him, the Left has a chance to consolidate support around economic populism.
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As Trump’s Coalition Breaks, Can the Left Pick Up the Pieces?
Donald Trump won in 2024 by casting billionaires and blue-collar workers as allies against a liberal professional elite. As working-class voters lose faith in him, the Left has a chance to consolidate support around economic populism.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Echoing the outrage of housing protesters, Minister Pablo Bustinduy admonished Spanish politicians for betraying the working class in favor of rentiers. The legislature’s rejection of two vital housing decrees led PM Pedro Sánchez to call snap elections.
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“The Spanish People Will Remember Who Betrayed Them”
Echoing the outrage of housing protesters, Minister Pablo Bustinduy admonished Spanish politicians for betraying the working class in favor of rentiers. The legislature’s rejection of two vital housing decrees led PM Pedro Sánchez to call snap elections.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In 1986, Michael Moore didn’t want to run Paul Berman’s article on Nicaragua. Getting pushed out of Mother Jones turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to his career.
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Getting Fired from Mother Jones Made Michael Moore
In 1986, Michael Moore didn’t want to run Paul Berman’s article on Nicaragua. Getting pushed out of Mother Jones turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to his career.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ninety years after the original Nye Committee exposed the arms industry’s corruption, the Pentagon and its contractors are bigger, richer, and more unaccountable than ever.
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Congress Must Investigate War Profiteers Once Again
Ninety years after the original Nye Committee exposed the arms industry’s corruption, the Pentagon and its contractors are bigger, richer, and more unaccountable than ever.
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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 · 06/10/2026
An all-spoiler review of “Digger,” so you can budget accordingly.
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No, Digger Is Not a Misunderstood Masterpiece
The critics savaging Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digger are right, and so is the public who stayed home — missing a Tom Cruise movie, no less. Watch Dr. Strangelove instead.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Brazil’s far right finished ahead in the first round. Lula’s government couldn’t sufficiently mobilize workers, and that has left the Bolsonaros within reach of the presidency again.
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Lula Is in Danger of Losing Brazil’s Presidency
Flávio Bolsonaro finished ahead of Lula in Brazil’s first round of the presidential election, aided by US intervention and an overly cautious Workers’ Party. To win the runoff, Lula needs to give working people a reason to hope.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The youngest person ever elected to St Petersburg City Council was also the first open socialist elected in Florida in over a century. That socialist, Richie Floyd, was inspired by Bernie’s 2016 presidential campaign.
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Richie Floyd: Bernie’s 2016 Campaign Changed My Life
In 2021, Richie Floyd was elected to the St Petersburg City Council, becoming the first openly socialist elected official in Florida in over a century. Writing in Jacobin, Floyd explains how Bernie’s 2016 campaign launched him into organizing.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Piketty’s Global Justice Report aims to tax billionaires and close the North-South divide. But it asks workers to sacrifice without showing how they can defeat capital.
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Thomas Piketty’s Utopian Socialism
The World Inequality Lab has produced the most ambitious redistribution plan in decades. But it asks the workers of the rich world to atone for empire rather than fight capital.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If we want to replace capitalism, we have to explain what would replace it.
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Being Against Capitalism Isn’t Enough
Socialists need more than a critique of capitalism. We need a concrete account of how a socialist economy could work — and make ordinary people’s lives better.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The post-pandemic labor upsurge has been driven to an unusual degree by young workers, many of whom were radicalized by and made class conscious by Bernie Sanders and his decision to run for president ten years ago.
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Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Campaign Lit a Spark Beyond Elections
Electoral campaigns can feed workplace struggle by politicizing people, raising their expectations, bringing activists together, and giving them experience organizing others. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns did all four.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Trump administration got a high-profile rebuke in Minneapolis over its deportation obsession. But it’s continued to quietly reshape the immigration system into a weapon against its political opponents.
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Trump’s Politically Driven Deportations Are Quietly Rising
Donald Trump’s street-level ICE surges and deportation obsession are wildly unpopular. That isn’t stopping the administration from continuing to target noncitizens over constitutionally protected free speech, including green card holders.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Statements about defeating or dismembering Russia, delivered by senior Western politicians like the current EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, achieve little beyond solidifying Putin’s support within Russia.
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The West Is Only Helping Putin Consolidate Support
Vladimir Putin has used the war in Ukraine to crush Russian civil society. He’s had a helping hand from Western politicians, whose jingoistic statements help warn Russians off challenging their rulers.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has called snap elections, just days after the start of a mass protest movement over housing. The vote will force a reckoning over his government’s limited success in reducing the cost of living.
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Spain’s New Protest Movement Is Putting Class Center Stage
The occupation of Madrid’s Puerta del Sol by housing protesters has brought back memories of the anti-austerity revolt that began in 2011. But where the Indignados used generic populist language, this new movement has a clear left-wing focus on class.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The critics savaging Alejandro González Iñárritu’s “Digger” are right, and so is the public who stayed home — missing a Tom Cruise movie, no less. Watch “Dr. Strangelove” instead.
jacobin.com
No, Digger Is Not a Misunderstood Masterpiece
The critics savaging Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digger are right, and so is the public who stayed home — missing a Tom Cruise movie, no less. Watch Dr. Strangelove instead.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Flávio Bolsonaro finished ahead of Lula in Brazil’s first round of the presidential election, aided by US intervention and an overly cautious Workers’ Party. To win the runoff, Lula needs to give working people a reason to hope.
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Lula Is in Danger of Losing Brazil’s Presidency
Flávio Bolsonaro finished ahead of Lula in Brazil’s first round of the presidential election, aided by US intervention and an overly cautious Workers’ Party. To win the runoff, Lula needs to give working people a reason to hope.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In 2021, Richie Floyd was elected to the St Petersburg City Council, becoming the first openly socialist elected official in Florida in over a century. Writing in Jacobin, Floyd explains how Bernie’s 2016 campaign launched him into organizing.
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Richie Floyd: Bernie’s 2016 Campaign Changed My Life
In 2021, Richie Floyd was elected to the St Petersburg City Council, becoming the first openly socialist elected official in Florida in over a century. Writing in Jacobin, Floyd explains how Bernie’s 2016 campaign launched him into organizing.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The World Inequality Lab has produced the most ambitious redistribution plan in decades. But it asks the workers of the rich world to atone for empire rather than fight capital.
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Thomas Piketty’s Utopian Socialism
The World Inequality Lab has produced the most ambitious redistribution plan in decades. But it asks the workers of the rich world to atone for empire rather than fight capital.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Socialists need more than a critique of capitalism. We need a concrete account of how a socialist economy could work — and make ordinary people’s lives better.
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Being Against Capitalism Isn’t Enough
Socialists need more than a critique of capitalism. We need a concrete account of how a socialist economy could work — and make ordinary people’s lives better.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Electoral campaigns can feed workplace struggle by politicizing people, raising their expectations, bringing activists together, and giving them experience organizing others. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns did all four.
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Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Campaign Lit a Spark Beyond Elections
Electoral campaigns can feed workplace struggle by politicizing people, raising their expectations, bringing activists together, and giving them experience organizing others. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns did all four.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Donald Trump’s street-level ICE surges and deportation obsession are wildly unpopular. That isn’t stopping the administration from continuing to target noncitizens over constitutionally protected free speech, including green card holders.
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Trump’s Politically Driven Deportations Are Quietly Rising
Donald Trump’s street-level ICE surges and deportation obsession are wildly unpopular. That isn’t stopping the administration from continuing to target noncitizens over constitutionally protected free speech, including green card holders.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Vladimir Putin has used the war in Ukraine to crush Russian civil society. He’s had a helping hand from Western politicians, whose jingoistic statements help warn Russians off challenging their rulers.
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The West Is Only Helping Putin Consolidate Support
Vladimir Putin has used the war in Ukraine to crush Russian civil society. He’s had a helping hand from Western politicians, whose jingoistic statements help warn Russians off challenging their rulers.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The occupation of Madrid’s Puerta del Sol by housing protesters has brought back memories of the anti-austerity revolt that began in 2011. But where the Indignados used generic populist language, this new movement has a clear left-wing focus on class.
jacobin.com
Spain’s New Protest Movement Is Putting Class Center Stage
The occupation of Madrid’s Puerta del Sol by housing protesters has brought back memories of the anti-austerity revolt that began in 2011. But where the Indignados used generic populist language, this new movement has a clear left-wing focus on class.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ninety years ago yesterday, antifascist demonstrators routed Oswald Mosley and his supporters when they tried to terrorize the Jews of London’s East End. It’s an important anniversary in a year when a new far-right movement is gathering strength.
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The Battle of Cable Street Was an Antifascist Landmark
Ninety years ago this Sunday, antifascist demonstrators routed Oswald Mosley and his supporters when they tried to terrorize the Jews of London’s East End. It’s an important anniversary in a year when a new far-right movement is gathering strength.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lula’s third term has seen millions lifted from poverty and unemployment remain steady. But right-wing media, American meddling, and persistent inflation have given Flávio Bolsonaro an opening in the upcoming election.
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The Stakes Are High in Brazil’s Upcoming Election
During Jair Bolsonaro’s term as president, he faced a liberal establishment that acted as a bulwark against his worst excesses. If his son Flávio beats Lula in the presidential election, he will lead a government less hostile to the far right.
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