Japanese colonialism is infamous for its brutalization of women, abducted and forced into sex slavery. Less known is women’s role in fighting against the Japanese Empire, brilliantly brought to life in two recent novels.

The Tim Dillon Show is disorienting and disturbing. It also has a massive audience, to whom it reflects back the disorientation and disturbance of contemporary society in pseudo-personalized form.

If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here: McCarthyism.

France’s government has survived a confidence vote thanks to the Parti Socialiste’s abstention. While Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu promises to suspend unpopular changes to pensions, unions object that the retirement age hike has merely been delayed.

Beyond the basic project of redistribution lies a more ambitious undertaking: What if we could collectively decide what society produces, instead of letting market logic dictate our needs and desires?

Donald Trump has abandoned the project of neoliberal globalization in a desperate bid to reverse America’s decline. It’s cut the ground from underneath Washington’s junior partners and left the European Union floundering.

Donald Trump’s $20 billion bailout of Argentina will extend a failing model of dollar dependency and austerity. By shoring up Javier Milei’s government, it basically guarantees another default.

United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain lays out the union’s vision for rewriting trade rules, raising wages across North America, and challenging the race to the bottom.

As Washington shuts down and safety nets vanish, Donald Trump is sending billions to rescue Argentina’s far-right government. Argentine pensioners, driven into poverty by Javier Milei’s cuts, are in the streets demanding survival.

Adam Silver became the NBA commissioner in 2014. Since then, he has wholeheartedly embraced sports gambling while making games harder for ordinary people to watch.

Nabbed at the airport, I was thrown into Mexico’s largest immigration detention center. There I learned from my fellow detainees about the terrible secrets and horrible violence of the Darién Gap, the global epicenter of the migrant crisis.

Zohran Mamdani does not operate by the same logic as the Democratic Party establishment. Waleed Shahid explains five key aspects of how Mamdani has broken through.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the US agency charged with overseeing automobile safety, including rapidly proliferating self-driving cars. The agency’s new head reportedly worked on Apple’s self-driving car project until recently.

Filipinos have been protesting against the theft of public funds for flood defenses by corrupt politicians. The protesters face a political class whose leading figures, President Bongbong Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte, are now bitter enemies.

As Canadian politicians proclaim their intention to protect national sovereignty, American shareholders are extracting revenues from Canada’s oil and gas industry — and stiffing workers.

Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies featured millions of Americans claiming patriotic imagery against authoritarianism and toward progressive ends. That’s a good thing.

Hundreds of thousands marched in the “No Kings” protests in New York City last weekend, as millions did elsewhere across the US. Organized labor’s marginal presence at the New York protests was emblematic of its anemic opposition to Trump more generally.

Judith Scheytt joined the Global Sumud Flotilla to break Israel’s siege on Gaza. In her first interview since her release, she told Jacobin about how the mission succeeded in shaming Western governments for their complicity in genocide.

“Premajority unionism” is a new term for corporate campaigns, in which workers try to win concessions from employers using channels outside the workplace, like investor pressure and appeals to the public. Such efforts are not likely to achieve much.

A new book by the journalist Paul Holden exposes the lengths that reactionaries within the Labour Party, many of whom now serve in the current government, went to sabotage the electoral prospects of Jeremy Corbyn.