Jacobin

French president Emmanuel Macron’s bodyguard Alexandre Benalla has been handed a suspended sentence for violently beating protesters while posing as a cop, representing a slap on the wrist in a country where elite impunity reigns, writes Harrison Stetler in US online review Jacobin.

In post-industrial eastern France, the neoliberal era has been a long class war waged from above. In his book 'Of Fangs and Talons', reviewed here by Conrad Landin, award-winning novelist Nicolas Mathieu portrays how the destruction of working-class communities has fed cynicism and despair.

We’ll have to wait to find out whether Joe Biden’s domestic agenda will actually reflect the surprisingly progressive noises he’s been making since his swearing in. But the exultant days and weeks surrounding Barack Obama’s inauguration offer a cautionary tale, writes Luke Savage in US online and print magazine Jacobin.

Last night’s UK elections results point to a deep problem in world politics today: the gravitational pull of privileging cultural over economic combat — an outcome that consistently divides the Left and hands victory to the Right. By Seth Ackerman, Jacobin's executive editor.

Mocked and derided for his impassioned defense of poor and working people, Michael Moore is finally being vindicated. He hasn’t changed his tune. The political culture’s just catching up with him, writes Meagan Day.

Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished. By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.

Nancy Pelosi’s war of words with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't about clashing personalities. It's about Democratic elites trying to undercut AOC's bold, left agenda, Miles Kampf-Lassin writes.

As voters elect a new European Parliament, the Left is split between multiple "unity projects", and none of them have a clear idea how to transform the EU, writes Loren Balhorn.

2018 might have been the year that convinced US workers that the strike holds the power needed to move today’s corporate giants and austerity-obsessed governments.

Chicago socialists cleaned house in municipal elections, winning as many as six socialist city council members. The city's left has a historic opportunity to push back years of gentrification, police brutality, and austerity.