Jacobin Media Bias

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Lula Is Giving a Lesson in How to Respond to Right-Wing Attacks on Democracy

On Sunday, January 8, a rabid crowd in green and yellow invaded the Plaza of the Three Branches in Brasília, the seat of the federal government of Brazil. The group was comprised of supporters of Brazil’s former right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, and carried symbols of his party and campaign into the headquarters of the country’s […]
Jacobin     Jan 13, 2023

Kathy Hochul Is Failing New York

politics

In 2018, the state of New York witnessed a political earthquake. Despite the efforts of former governor Andrew Cuomo to create and maintain a state government that was artificially divided between Republican and Democratic control (unnecessarily increasing the power of Republicans in the state legislature through political wheeling and dealing and providing a convenient excuse […]
Jacobin     Jan 13, 2023

The US Should Learn From Brazil and Actually Punish Its Coup Plotters

politics

The scenes out of Brazil this past week have drawn comparisons to the Donald Trump–induced US Capitol riot of 2021, with hundreds of supporters of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro storming and vandalizing Brazil’s congress, supreme court, and presidential palace, convinced that left-wing president Lula da Silva didn’t really win the election. But we should […]
Jacobin     Jan 13, 2023

Nurses at Two New York City Hospitals Just Won Historic Strike Victories

On Monday, January 9, seven thousand nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx borough of New York City and at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan walked out after negotiations over new contracts had stalled. The central demand of nurses at both hospitals, represented by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA), was enforcement of […]
Jacobin     Jan 13, 2023

Deport Bolsonaro

Jair Bolsonaro is in Florida. Two weeks ago, he was president of Brazil. There were already multiple ongoing criminal investigations into his conduct before he left office, but he flew to the United States just before his successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was inaugurated — and not long before his supporters rioted in a […]
Jacobin     Jan 12, 2023

After a Decades-Long Fight, Yale Graduate Student Workers Just Won Their Union

Graduate student workers at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, have been trying to unionize since the early 1990s. This Tuesday, their efforts finally paid off: Yale grad student employees won a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election to unionize with Local 33 UNITE HERE, with 91 percent voting yes. The victory comes in the […]
Jacobin     Jan 12, 2023

The NHS Is Struggling Because of Years of Austerity

health

In ten years from 2000, a decade of sustained investment by a New Labour government managed to repair much of the damage done to the National Health Service (NHS) by twenty-one years of underfunding. Then, in 2010, David Cameron’s government threw that into reverse with a new decade of austerity. That’s why the performance of […]
Jacobin     Jan 12, 2023

Inflation Is About Class Struggle

The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates at a historically fast clip. And even as wages in general remain stagnant, central bankers are laser-focused on checking wage growth among service workers, among the lowest-wage workers in the United States. In this interview with historian Tim Barker, which first appeared on Daniel Denvir’s Jacobin Radio show […]
Jacobin     Jan 12, 2023

New York Nurses Are on Strike While Medical Executives Are Rolling in Cash

On Monday, seven thousand New York nurses at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan went on strike over massive short staffing. While a Montefiore spokesperson said “the union leadership’s decision will spark fear” in the public, and a Mount Sinai representative called the strike “reckless,” the hospitals have […]
Jacobin     Jan 11, 2023

Over the Holidays, Congress Gave the Military an $860 Billion Budgetary Gift

politics

Despite its $1.7 trillion price tag — including a whopping $860 billion earmarked for the military — the omnibus budget bill enacted late last month has not received the scrutiny it deserves. One reason is there wasn’t much time to examine the bill’s contents. The legislation is made up of twelve “regular” and two supplemental […]
Jacobin     Jan 11, 2023

No, the GOP Has Not Become the Party of Workers

One of the defining struggles in American politics is to make the US political system, dominated by only two parties that are both corrupted by corporate money, actually responsive to working-class needs. How’s that effort going when it comes to the Republican Party, which since the 2020 election has been trying to rebrand itself as […]
Jacobin     Jan 10, 2023

The Birth of Analytic Philosophy Out of the Spirit of McCarthyism

Anyone who comes into contact with academic philosophy today quickly discovers that the field is dominated by a certain style. The style is straight-talking but jargon-laden. Arguments are finely crafted and discussion takes the form of the exchange of quick-fire objections and replies. The weighty questions one might imagine to be central to philosophy quickly […]
Jacobin     Jan 10, 2023