Inspired by anti-fascist organizing in the 1940s, a group of progressive Jewish activists have formed the Jewish Council of Australia. Its goal is to challenge the hegemony of right-wing, Zionist groups that claim to speak for all Jewish Australians. Protesters hold a sign saying “Jews Against the Occupation“ during a rally in Sydney, Australia, on October 29, 2023. (David Gray / AFP via Getty Images) Since Israel launched its offensive on Gaza in October last year, supporters of the war have waged a worldwide campaign to smear legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitic. Vocal opponents of ..read more

Worker-owned firms have less wage inequality, greater job security, higher job satisfaction, stronger community ties, and greater resilience during economic downturns. The model needs to spread. Workers prepare to lift a new pedestrian bridge into place on August 26, 2023, in Stamford, Connecticut. (John Moore / Getty Images) Jacobin’s David Moscrop recently talked with Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives senior economist and public finance policy analyst Alex Hemingway about his new cowritten report, Expanding Democratic Employee Ownership in Canada: Policy Options and why now might be t ..read more

The “professional managerial class” is a staple of recent cultural commentary, but there's no empirical evidence for its existence. The PMC catch-all clouds our understanding of the middle classes and the capital-labor divide. A woman working on her computer in Tucson, Arizona, on October 25, 2022. (Kitra Cahana for the Washington Post / Getty Images) There has been a persistent drive among intellectual advocates of advanced capitalism to identify new class forces to rejuvenate the system, alongside comparable efforts by leftist critics to identify new classes to lead its transformation. But ..read more

France Insoumise election candidate Rima Hassan has received a police summons over possible “apology for terrorism” charges. She’s the latest of a string of pro-Palestine activists to face inquiries, in a blatant judicial offensive against Israel’s critics. A protester faces a French police officer in riot gear during a pro-Palestine demonstration in central Paris on October 28, 2023. (Geoffroy van der Hasselt / AFP via Getty Images) It’s a major escalation in France’s clampdown on solidarity with Palestine — and the latest sign of the politicization of the country’s justice system. Two promi ..read more

A deciding vote to repeal Arizona’s draconian abortion ban could fall to a lawmaker who is heavily influenced by a deep-pocketed anti-choice group — one instance of many conflicts of interest in state supreme courts. Arizona residents at a rally for abortion rights after the Arizona Supreme Court decision to enact a law from 1864 banning abortion on April 16, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) In Arizona, a deep-pocketed antiabortion group has been wining and dining a lawmaker who may be a deciding vote on a new effort to repeal the state’s draconian ..read more

The evidence is overwhelming: workers are abandoning the Democrats and center-left parties around the world. Class dealignment is radically changing politics, and the Left needs a program to win the working class. People vote on March 1, 2016, in Centreville, Virginia. (Paul J. Richards / AFP via Getty Images) The following article is reprinted from Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy, a publication from the Jacobin Foundation. Right now, you can subscribe to the print edition of Catalyst for just $20. A battle is raging among US progressives over how to u ..read more

The British government has handed private firm Serco a £200 million contract to help electronically monitor non-British citizens. In an op-ed, a man in an immigration-status limbo explains what it means to be tagged and constantly surveilled. The UK Home Office uses ankle monitors to surveil migrants. (Ryan McFadden / MediaNews Group / Reading Eagle via Getty Images) As shareholders gather today for Serco’s Annual General Meeting, I sit here, with an immigration tag around my ankle, calling on this private firm to stop profiting from unjust and inhumane immigration policy. Since 2021, Britain ..read more

Class rage informs the anger found across Nirvana’s studio albums. Thirty years after Kurt Cobain’s death, we should remember his critique of the corporate mainstream — a political stance shaped by his working-class background. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana during the taping of MTV Unpluggedat Sony Studios in New York City, November 18, 1993. (Frank Micelotta / Getty Images) In 1991, Kurt Cobain, the Nirvana frontman who died thirty years ago this month, wrote a letter to Rolling Stone, expressing what he thought about the magazine’s audience and political pedigree. “At this point in our, uh, career ..read more

Today an international group of activists is setting sail for Gaza, hoping to deliver badly needed aid to Palestinians there. The effort follows a similar voyage to breach Israel’s blockade 14 years ago — which the IDF met with deadly force. Activists hold a press conference inside a ship belonging to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition while it anchors in the Tuzla seaport near Istanbul, Turkey, on April 19, 2024. (Yasin Akgul / AFP via Getty Images) Today, a thousand activists with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition have planned to set sail from Turkey aboard three ships with over five thousand tons ..read more

Last year, instructors at over 150 Fitness First and Goodlife Health Clubs launched a union campaign to halt underpayment, wage cuts by stealth, and deteriorating work conditions. Within a few months, management caved to their demands. A fitness instructor spots a client as he lifts weights in the gym on June 16, 2016, in Littleton, Colorado. (Anya Semenoff / the Denver Post via Getty Images) As a sector plagued by underpayment, sham contracting, and hypercasualization, the fitness industry there has no shortage of issues to mobilize around. It’s common — as fitness instructors explain in Uni ..read more