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The radicalization of workers isn’t a steadily and inexorably upward process. It ebbs and flows for any number of reasons. Class understanding is made and unmake. And to understand each of these moments of making or unmaking requires a concrete…
Jeremy Corbyn’s recent speech to the Trade Union Congress is impressive. It is an unmistakable and uncompromising challenge to class power, privileges, and prerogatives, But I was also surprised by what it didn’t say, that is, the absence of any mention…
In what amounts to an editorial, Bhaskar Sunkara and Micah Uetricht write in Jacobin, what I consider, an unnecessarily scathing, counterproductive, and silly take on the Working Families Party endorsement of Elizabeth Warren. Their editorial in some ways says less…
Much of the media assume without any evidence yet that Iran was the site of the attack on Saudi oil fields. We’ll see. If you step back from the present situation playing out in the Middle East, it hard not…
After listening to early Dylan and then some of his later stuff on my recent road trip to Detroit, I couldn’t help but think that I’m so glad he went electric and had the courage to evolve as an artist,…