Why Brazil Is Striking Tomorrow
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/brazil-temer-general-strike-pension-reform-lula-corruption
Brazil’s unelected president wants to pass a draconian pension reform — and a general strike may be the only chance to stop him.
The Rule of Law Won’t Save Us
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/law-constitution-trump-president-abuse-power
Donald Trump won’t be stopped by the law — in fact, his worse abuses are enabled by it.
A Special Obscenity
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/guernica-anniversary-spanish-civil-war-franco
Picasso painted Guernica eighty years ago this spring. It still stands as a searing protest against the brutality of war and fascism.
What Corbyn Already Won
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/corbyn-theresa-may-snap-elections-labour-conservatives-polling
Don’t let them make you forget it — once you move beyond Corbyn’s personal polling, the electorate consistently likes his policies.
The Steps to Ecosocialism
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/ecosocialism-fee-dividend-oil-hansen-tanuro-climate
Any ecosocialist movement must have a strategy for organizing in the here and now.
The Centrist Cul-de-Sac
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/france-presidential-election-second-round-le-pen
Even if Macron wins in France, five more years of neoliberalism could further bolster the far-right National Front.
Macron 2017 = Le Pen 2022
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/france-elections-macron-le-pen-extreme-center-neoliberalism-fascism
Opposing Le Pen should in no way be limited to voting against her on May 7.
Gramsci and the Russian Revolution
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/gramsci-russian-revolution-lenin-trotsky-soviets
What did a young Antonio Gramsci think about the Russian Revolution?
Who Fights Colombia’s Wars?
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/colombia-military-war-farc-santos-uribe-conscription
The biggest opponents of Colombia’s peace process are the most removed from the reality of war.
The Left Is Alive
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/french-election-macron-le-pen-fn-melenchon
Le Pen is in the second round, but Sunday showed us that the French left isn’t dead after all.
The Right’s Green Awakening
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/climate-change-cop21-tax-dividend-cap-trade-emissions-capitalism
Leading Republicans are abandoning climate-change denialism in order to design « green » policy favorable to capital.
Cuomo’s Bait and Switch
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/andrew-cuomo-free-college-bernie-sanders-tuition-new-york
Andrew Cuomo’s fake “free college” plan is about helping his presidential ambitions — not New Yorkers.
Out of Time
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/films-working-class-manchester-by-the-sea-paterson-fences
Last year’s prestige cinema focused on working-class characters too consumed to reflect on their own conditions.
The Palestine Exception
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/modern-language-association-resolution-israel-boycott
One of the world’s most important academic organizations has a choice: uphold academic freedom, or provide cover for Israel’s crimes.
The Mélenchon Economy
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/melenchon-economy-france-elections-first-round
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s senior economic advisor explains his proposals to grow the economy and carry out an ecological transition.
The Meaning of France Insoumise
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/the-meaning-of-france-insoumise
Mélenchon’s movement has its limitations — but it’s unexpected rise offers new possibilities for the French left.
A New Beginning
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/france-insoumise-melenchon-left-socialist-elections
Win or lose today the Mélenchon campaign has reinvigorated the French left — and provides a basis for its recomposition.
Erdoğan Can Be Beaten
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/turkey-referendum-fraud-protests-dictator
Erdoğan is not unstoppable. The Turkish left must fight to annul the fraudulent referendum and mobilize against dictatorship.
(Not) Born This Way
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/biological-determinism-science-innate-ability-capitalism
There’s nothing natural or innate about inequality — but a long history of pseudo-science will tell you there is.
Another World Is Possible With Jean-Luc Mélenchon
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/french-presidential-election-first-round-melenchon
Two hundred French educators explain why they’re supporting Jean-Luc Mélenchon in tomorrow’s presidential election.
An Earthquake in the Making
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/france-elections-melenchon-france-insoumise-european-union-sixth-republi
A Mélenchon victory wouldn’t solve Europe’s crisis, but it will put us in a better position to rebuild the movements that can.
The Mélenchon Economy
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/the-melenchon-economy
Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s senior economic advisor explains his proposals to grow the economy and carry out an ecological transition.
Criminalizing Anti-Austerity in Ireland
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/jobstown-not-guilty-ireland-water-privatization-austerity
Irish activists won major concessions against water privatization. Now, the state is looking to imprison them.
Trump’s Predictable Rise
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/rick-perlstein-donald-trump-economy-right-republicans-goldwater-nixon-re
Trump’s election isn’t cause for reassessing politics as we know it. Shifts in the economy and political parties created an easy opening for him.
Center-Left in No Man’s Land
▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/france-elections-socialist-party-hamon-valls-hollande-melenchon-france-i
The difficulties facing Benoît Hamon’s campaign reveal a French Socialist Party being outflanked on its right and left.