Jacobin

On both sides of the Atlantic, Rupert Murdoch’s news empire is built on a hate-for-profit business model — engaging in migrant bashing, election denial, and anti-LGBTQ hysteria to drive ratings and make him and his hosts rich, writes Liam Barrett in Jacobin.

Moscow-based socialist Mikhail Lobanov is a leading left-wing critic of Vladimir Putin. His jailing this Thursday reflects authorities’ determination to silence critics of the war, the disastrous effects of which are playing havoc on Russian society.

The Coal Creek War was one of the largest insurrections in American labour history, with thousands of miners batting state troops to end the convict leasing system designed to extend slavery and undermine organized labour.

Housing costs in Lisbon are so high that it’s ranked even more unviable for renters than New York. Attempts to solve the issue through “market efficiency” have made the problem worse.

Pablo Iglesias, cofounder of Spain’s leftist party Podemos, tells Jacobin that antidemocratic forces in the Spanish police and secret services plotted to stop his party from taking power.

Boris Johnson handed Britain’s ruling class just about everything they could have wanted. Savour his fall from grace, but only for a moment: his Tory replacement won’t be any better, writes Labour Party MP Zarah Sultana in this opinion article for Jacobin.

It doesn’t matter how many people are slaughtered. It doesn’t even matter if they’re children, as they were in Texas on May 24th. In America, the response to gun violence is nothing, writes David Sirota.

Often associated with the middle class, psychoanalysis is a means of reflecting on human suffering that should be accessible to all, writes Jess Cotton in a review of two recently published books that explore the subject.

Mediapart, Jacobin and the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation are joining forces to analyze the results of the first round of the presidential election. With Mediapart journalists Fabien Escalona and Ellen Salvi, freelance journalist and contributor to Jacobin, Harrison Stetler, and historian Mathilde Larrère. What can we learn from the initial results, what can we expect in the second round, and what does it all mean for the French Left and society at large?

Forged in the best traditions of American radicalism, historian Tyler Stovall, who died in December, remained loyal to the struggle for a better world throughout an illustrious academic career.