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Chris Maisano is a contributing editor at Jacobin and union staffer in New York. He is a member of Democratic Socialists of America.
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A new book offers a flawed road map for rebuilding the Left.
The history of the 1970s New York City fiscal crisis shows how power under capitalism is ultimately located outside electoral politics — and must be defeated at its source.
Today, there’s a real chance Unidos Podemos will become the most important force in Spanish politics. What do they stand for?
No, socialism isn’t just more government — it’s about democratic ownership and control.
A case before the Supreme Court threatens to devastate public-sector unions. How did it come to this?
What’s behind the New Democratic Party’s surprise win in Alberta?
Only rank-and-file workers can build a better labor movement.
Labor-management partnerships will not revive the union movement.
Social impact bonds offer private interests yet another opportunity to enrich themselves at public expense.
The problems of our time will be solved by our collective capacity to change the world, not self-therapy.
Our impulse should not be to reject social democracy’s legacy, but to build on and complete its promise.
Most dismiss social democracy as the fading echo of a bygone age — Lane Kenworthy disagrees.
The popular imagination gets Machiavelli all wrong — he was a patron saint of class struggle.
In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by the privileged, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers supported the war effort. That memory is wrong.
The class war against workers demands a class response.
Fewer workers are in unions, but density in itself doesn’t always translate into power.
Not quite feudalism, student debt is a peculiarly capitalist form of social control.
Putting full employment at the center of a new left-wing strategy.