Redistributing income alone is unlikely to solve America’s vast inequalities. Workers need and want more power in their workplace and for the state to weaken the influence that corporations have over their lives.

For years, across multiple presidential administrations, the US government has been pursuing aggressive lawsuits against the tech giants. The toothless sentence Google recently received for its illegal search monopoly suggests the effort is all for naught.

Fifty-nine years after Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panthers, Charlotte and Pete O’Neal remain in exile in Tanzania. Their story, told through interviews, archives, and firsthand reporting, reveals the movement’s enduring legacy.

When Italy’s dockworkers organized a strike in solidarity with Palestine on October 3, they showed that solidarity and internationalism are still alive in the Italian labor movement.

As ICE violently snatches Chicagoans in broad daylight and seems to be waging war on the city itself, Chicago City Council member and socialist Anthony Quezada recounts how the city is pushing back.

Some economists argue that European countries have lower inequality than the US because they distribute market income much more equally, not because of their welfare states. This is false: the welfare state beats market-income compression.

The airline industry is lobbying to weaken a new safety rule that would force airlines to address serious flaws in potentially thousands of Boeing planes. They have industry-connected allies in the Trump administration who could help them get their way.

If Zohran Mamdani wins, he will face fierce resistance from business elites and the political establishment. Unions and grassroots member organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America can play a key role in helping him overcome this opposition.

After being sued for violating state-level human trafficking laws, GEO Group, the nation’s largest private prison company, is pushing the Supreme Court to grant private government contractors like itself blanket immunity from such lawsuits.

One of France’s leading socialists, Jean Jaurès was assassinated just days before the outbreak of World War I. An impassioned defender of working-class internationalism, his murder signaled Europe’s descent into war.

After years of pushing sensationalized claims about foreign threats, Silicon Valley’s military start-ups are set to score billions in funding for drones and AI-powered weapons in the nearly $1 trillion defense budget.

Jeremy Kimbrell was fired from his job at an Alabama Mercedes-Benz factory after playing a leading role in the UAW’s failed effort to unionize the plant in 2024. Jacobin spoke to him about his experience and the union’s ongoing fight to organize the South.

What we can learn from the life of Uruguay’s former guerrilla and leftist president Pepe Mujica.

As Palestinians return to Gaza amid the Trump administration’s precarious Israel-Hamas ceasefire, senators approved a $914 billion defense budget that fulfills several surveillance and weapons funding requests from the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC.

Donald Trump is often blamed for the US’s hostility toward the EU, but the roots of the rift run deeper. Europe’s manufacturing-heavy economy and tough regulation of US tech have put it on a collision course with Washington.

The problem with Donald Trump’s recent firing of six members of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board isn’t who he decided to fire — it’s the board’s very existence as a tool of colonial rule over Puerto Rico.

Chattanooga’s Volkswagen plant, which joined the United Auto Workers last year, is the first in the South to have unionized through an election since 1940. As first contract negotiations stall, the UAW is gathering pledge cards for a possible strike.

Ofer Cassif, among the few Israeli MPs to openly reject Zionism, tells Jacobin that Palestinian liberation is indispensable to peace and justice for all people in the region.

The “pro-worker” conservatism of figures like Oren Cass and his American Compass think tank offers narrowly targeted measures to select workers while terrorizing immigrants and maintaining management’s control over the workplace and politics.