Catalyst, a new journal published by Jacobin is out now.

In the US and around the world today, political violence is the hallmark of the Right, not the Left.

Two years ago today Jeremy Corbyn made it onto the Labour leadership ballot with seconds to spare.

The Espionage Act turns 100 today. It helped destroy the Socialist Party of America and quashes free speech to this day.

The main problem for Appalachia and the white working class is capitalism. It always has been.

Jeremy Corbyn showed the way for mass radical politics. He only had to fend off attacks from the Right, the press, and his own party to do it.

Todays horrific fire in London's Grenfell Tower is a symbol of a deeply unequal United Kingdom.

US policy in Central America under Trump appears to be shifting from bad to worse.

Two years ago a left-wing coalition was elected to govern Spains capital. Now it's locked in a battle with the national government.

In the face of the monstrosity that is Trumpcare, we must demand Medicare for All.

Campaigns against fast fashion scapegoat working-class consumers while doing little to improve the conditions of garment workers.

Theresa May is clinging to power thanks to the support of one of the worst elements in UK politics: the far-right Democratic Unionist Party.

Georgia's elites are changing the country's constitution to forever foreclose the possibility of taxing the rich.

Chris Kennedy has thrown his hat and his family's enormous wealth into the Illinois governor's race. But does he really represent a progressive option?

Today's French parliamentary election marks a new phase in plans for a grand coalition of anti-labor forces.

The general election marked a setback for the Scottish National Party. Is the independence dream dead?

Eight reasons why universities cant be the primary site of left organizing.

The results of the UK election are a disaster for the British ruling class.

J.K. Rowling, Barack Obama, the list goes on. Prominent liberals all opposed Jeremy Corbyn and it didnt matter.

The historian Eric Hobsbawm would have turned 100 today. During his life, he never lost faith that the future belonged to socialism.

I don't care if he didn't actually win he won. Jeremy Corbyn has given us a blueprint to follow for years to come.

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