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The Right’s Model Nation
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/netherlands-dutch-elections-pvv-geert-wilders-sp-greens-islamophobia
The Dutch left has been unable to counter the Islamophobic far right, and it will show in tomorrow’s general elections.
Big Data’s Hidden Labor
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/big-data-smartphones-google-amazon-facebook-surveillance-tech
Tweetstorms and Netflix binges are really fun — and profitable. It’s time to claim the fruits of our digital labor.
The American Empire Isn’t in Decline
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/obama-trump-mattis-united-states-empire
The foreign policy establishment remains confident it can steer the US into a new age of global hegemony.
Dermokratiya, USA
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/russia-us-clinton-boris-yeltsin-elections-interference-trump
With rampant talk of Russian interference, it’s worth recounting Washington’s role in undermining Russia’s 1996 election.
Exceptional Times
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/sinn-fein-gerry-adams-northern-ireland-elections-dup
Sinn Féin’s surge in Northern Ireland has transformed the political landscape. The Left can’t fail to take advantage.
Trump Is Not Pharaoh
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/trump-seder-purim-passover-pharaoh
At this year’s seder, don’t turn Trump into Pharaoh — treat him as a plague.
Listen, Socialist
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/listen-socialist
Highlights from Jacobin Radio, which you should listen to immediately.
The Common Sense of Socialism
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/canada-new-democratic-labor-party-ccf
What can the Canadian experience teach us about building a mass working-class party in the US?
Aliens, Antisemitism, and Academia
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/jason-reza-jorjani-stony-brook-alt-right-arktos-continental-philosophy-m
Alt-right conspiracy theorists have embraced postmodern philosophy. The Left should return to the Enlightenment to oppose their irrational and hateful politics.
Parts From Hell
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/cars-automobiles-safety-accidents-gm-takata-airbags-negligence
The automobile industry takes massive risks with workers’ and consumers’ lives every day.
Reading Capital
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/david-harvey-marxs-inferno-review-capital-grundrisse
David Harvey on a new book that looks at Marx’s Capital through the lens of political theory and Dante’s Inferno.
The Perils of the New, Shiny George W. Bush
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/george-bush-president-trump-iraq-war-katrina-torture
The cuddly George W. Bush who paints pictures of dogs and Jay Leno is a war criminal. He doesn’t deserve an inch of rehabilitation.
Why Do Socialists Talk So Much About Workers?
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/socialists-working-class-workers-marx-abcs-socialism
Workers are the only agent that has a structural place within society that can bring the centers of power to their knees.
How to Undermine Trump
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/strike-trump-taxi-drivers-ctul-working-class
The best place to fight Trump is the place where workers have the most power: at the point of production.
Sabotaging Peace
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/colombia-peace-farc-paramilitaries-santos
Colombia’s peace deal is being threatened by a surge of right-wing violence.
Strikes Aren’t for the Privileged
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/womens-strike-privileged-labor-history-feminism
The claim that strikes are reflections of privilege is totally disconnected from the history of women’s labor organizing in the US.
A Feminism That Takes to the Streets
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/womens-strike-corporate-neoliberal-feminism-abortion-rights
Today’s Women’s Strike is a rebuke to corporate feminism.
Before February
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/russia-february-revolution-tsar-great-war-lenin-trotsky
The uprising that broke out in Russia 100 years ago today was just the beginning of the country’s revolutionary moment.
The Story of the February Revolution
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/february-revolution-strike-tsar-lenin
Russian workers went on strike on International Women’s Day 1917. They ended up toppling tsarism.
A Guide to the February Revolution
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/guide-february-revolution-russia-tsar-soviets-bolsheviks
One hundred years after the February Revolution, we answer your questions about the historic rebellion.
The Socialist Origins of International Women’s Day
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/international-womens-day-clara-zetkin-working-class-socialist
From the beginning, International Women’s Day has been an occasion to celebrate working women and fight capitalism.
Ireland Strikes for Repeal
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/ireland-womens-strike-abortion-illegal-strike4repeal
This International Women’s Day, women in Ireland are striking for abortion rights against a backdrop of horror stories caused by the country’s prohibition.
Argentina’s Life-or-Death Women’s Movement
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/argentina-ni-una-menos-femicides-women-strike
When Argentinian women strike tomorrow, they’ll do so in resistance to a terrifying wave of femicides.
No Easy Answers
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/labour-jeremy-corbyn-owen-jones-guardian-plp
Owen Jones’s call for Corbyn to stand down won’t solve Labour’s fundamental problems — but it could be a gift to the party’s right.
Remembering Sandino
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/augusto-sandino-nicaragua-somoza-us-imperialism-sandinista
The Nicaraguan nationalist was assassinated eighty-three years ago last month.