In Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis, two cofounders of the LA Tenants Union offer an account of housing, tenancy, the connections between labor and renters’ organizing, and what the authors call the “centuries-long war on tenants.” Signs are hung on the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles building during...

Democratic forces in Myanmar have been fighting for more than three years against a military junta. Unions are a crucial part of the resistance movement, and the government has cracked down on them with deadly force. Workers from Tai Yi footwear factory protest at the labor office in Hlaing Thar Yar Township in the outskirts of Yangon...

The recent longshore workers’ strike provoked pearl-clutching in the media about runaway salaries. But the notion of six-figure pay for blue-collar workers becomes less scandalous when we compare worker pay and purchasing power today to those in 1960. A striking dockworker outside the Port of Newark on October 1, 2024, in Elizabeth,...

Criticism of the US Constitution’s antimajoritarian and undemocratic nature has long been a staple of left-wing thought and commentary. But now, no less mainstream a figure than Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, has joined the chorus of voices calling for a new constitution. His new book making this […]

A new battleground poll from Jacobin and the Center for Working-Class Politics / YouGov breaks down support by social class. Kamala Harris leads narrowly in Pennsylvania, but Donald Trump leads among unionized workers. A new poll shows a tight presidential race in Pennsylvania, a key battleground state. (Bridget Bennett / Washington...

The problem with Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recent grilling on Palestine by CBS News’s Tony Dokoupil isn’t that it was rude. It’s that Dokoupil’s questioning betrays a fundamental lack of concern for Palestinians’ basic humanity, shared across mainstream media. Ta-Nehisi Coates on Meet the Press in Washington, DC, on October 1, 2017. (William...